An Introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning?

An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and systematic examination of the extent of drug use in sport and attempts to explain why athletes have, over the last four decades, increasingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Richly illustrated throughout with case studies and empirical data, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the relationship between drugs, sport and society.

1. Drugs in Sport and Sport as a Drug 2. Doping in Sport: Problems of Involvement and Detachment 3. Changing Patterns of Drug use in Sport 4. The Emergence of Doping as a Problem in Modern Sport 5. Drugs in Sport: Towards a Sociological Understanding 6. The Other Side of Sports Medicine: Sports Medicine and the Development and use of Performance Enhancing Drugs 7. Drug use in Sport:A Case Study of Cycling 8. Drug Use in Sport:A Case Study of Professional Football 9. Doping Control in Sport:A Critical Analysis 10. The World-Anti Doping Agency 11. Conclusion