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Title
Drug Testing High School Athletes and Fitness Trainers
Author(s)
Publication Date
2018-04
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008
Abstract
The recreational use of steroids and other image enhancing drugs (SIEDs) to enhance image and/or performance has been firmly recognized as a public health concern (McVeigh, et al. 2016). In a meta-analysis of 187 studies exploring the recreational use of SIEDs, an overall global lifetime prevalence of 3.3 percent, and a lifetime prevalence of 2.3 percent for high school students who use SIEDs, was found (Sagoe, et al. 2014). In addition, looking at fitness training-related groups, such as bodybuilders, we see much higher numbers, with prevalence rates in gyms as high as almost half of all members. While most countries focus on prevention and education to deal with this growing issue, a handful have taken the drastic step of introducing dope-testing programs in gyms (only EU countries) and high schools (mainly the United States).
Publication Type
Entry In Reference Work
Source of Publication
Steroids and Doping in Sports: A Reference Handbook, p. 159-163
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Place of Publication
California, United States of America
File(s)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020
HERDC Category Description
ISBN
9781440854811
9781440854828
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