Doping in sport has been explored predominantly from a user-perspective, widely
neglecting an analysis of the supply-side of the market for doping products. In this article, we …

The creation of WADA contributed to harmonization of anti‐doping and changed doping
behavior and prevalence in the past 22 years. However, the system has developed …

Objective To describe drug use, sexual risks and the prevalence of blood-borne viral
infections among men who inject image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs). Design …

This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a
means to get there. Building on the international research literature and in-depth interviews …

Has the “dark side” of anabolic-androgenic steroids been overstated? In what follows, we
examine this question with the intention of injecting some nuance and much-needed debate …

This article draws on three mutually independent ethnographic studies to explore the private
sector market for image and performance enhancing drug (IPED) harm reduction in the UK …

Policies and approaches addressing image and performance enhancing drug (IPED) use in
the gym and fitness context, also known as fitness doping, vary widely by country. Fitness …

Abstract The Enhanced Games (TEG) has generated significant discussion around doping
in sport, with reference to notions of athlete harm,'fairness', and the normalisation of IPED …

This paper draws upon the sociology of Norbert Elias to examine some central aspects of
the whereabouts system introduced by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as part of its …

People who inject drugs are vulnerable to infections and injuries at injection sites, but these
have rarely been studied in those injecting image-and performance-enhancing drugs …