A new study from Nova Southeastern University has revealed that 80 percent of the 198 players interviewed reported using drugs and other substances to enhance their performance.

The drugs, generally, were marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, Valium, and other prescription medications, as well as caffeine, energy drinks, and guarana.

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Long left off the list of performance-enhancing drug abusing “athletes,” poker players are finally having their day in the sun. A new study from Nova Southeastern University found that 80 percent of the 198 players interviewed reported using drugs and other substances to enhance their performance.

The drugs, generally, were things like marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, Valium, and other prescription medications, as well as caffeine, energy drinks, and guarana. (No anabolic steroids were mentioned.)

Kevin Clauson, Pharm.D, an associate professor at NSU’s College of Pharmacy, who was the principle investigator in the study, said the higher stakes the game, the more likely the use of substances to enhance performance.

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Police and border officials made 224,080 drug finds in the year 2009, which was down seven per cent on the previous year’s record high.

This was the first time that annual seizures had fallen since 2004.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

Cocaine remained the most commonly found class A drug for the fourth year running, with more than 21,000 separate seizures last year – more than three times the number of seizures made in 2002, but down 13 per cent from 2008/09.

Along with the 2.6 tonnes of cocaine found last year, 758,700 cannabis plants were also seized, up 18 per cent from the 643,296 the previous year.

Other seizures included 1.5 tonnes of heroin and 1.3 tonnes of amphetamines, both down on the previous year, the Home Office figures showed.

Seizures of anabolic steroids increased by eight per cent to 867, which was the highest total since it began being recorded in 1996.

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Justin Gatlin, the joint world 100m record holder and reigning Olympic sprint champion, recently put on a statement that he had tested positive for testosterone after a relay event in Kansas in April 2006.

Gatlin, in a remarkably prescient interview to the American magazine Sports Illustrated, said: “I understand what it would mean to track and field if I ever tested positive or went down in some scandal. Not to have an ego about it, but it might be the KO for our sport.”

From Guardian.co.uk:

Coming just days after it was revealed that his fellow American Floyd Landis, the winner of the Tour de France, had tested positive for testosterone, it reignited the debate about drugs in sport. Can spectators have any confidence in the integrity of today’s sporting superstars? And can the authorities ever eradicate the cheats, or will sport have to surrender and accept a level of drug-enhanced performance?

Gatlin, 24, who prided himself on being a role model for young athletes as the world’s fastest man, is protesting his innocence, saying: “It is simply not consistent with my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.” His coach, Trevor Graham, said Gatlin had been “set up”.

It is likely that Gatlin will be stripped of the 9.77-second 100m world record he achieved in Doha in May. He also faces a life ban from athletics because of a suspension in 2001 after testing positive for amphetamines from a prescribed drug.

The statement of Gatlin sent shockwaves through a sport that has grown wearily accustomed to drug scandals.

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The game of baseball has been left mutilated by use of performance enhancing drugs and baseball sluggers are using everything from steroids to amphetamines to find a place in the record books and sustain their position to earn name, fame, and recognition.

Though use of steroids, for legitimate purposes and under medical supervision, is not what we should be concerned about, but the incidents of steroid abuse mean that our society is at an increased risk of individuals getting affected with severe health complications such as liver tumors, high blood pressure, fertility problems, hypertension, increased hostility and aggression, and cardiovascular diseases with abuse of steroids.

From Thecrimson.com:

Even in the face of such mounting evidence Major League Baseball has refused to alter their regulations, which theoretically ban the use of steroids and amphetamines but do nothing practical to enforce observance. After much negotiating last year, the Major League Players Association (MBPA)—the players’ union—finally agreed to steroid testing, which began during this year’s spring training. But these tests are not random—they are scheduled in advance, so players can easily schedule their steroid use around the test dates. They also only test for steroids, and not for other common performance-enhancing drugs. They are thus essentially useless. As Gary Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s medical research committee, noted “[baseball’s new testing procedure is] more of an IQ test than a steroid test, because you have to be really dumb to fail it.”

The even-more ludicrous aspect of the new testing system, though, is that players face no punishment for a positive test. It is only if more than 5 percent of players test positive this season, causing random testing to go into place next season, that the penalties will be anything but harsh. In the future, under a random testing policy, a first offense would only require participation in a drug treatment program, and a second offense would only lead to a mere 15 day suspension. Furthermore, if players test positive, they are able to take a second test, one week later, and a negative result here will wipe out the earlier positive. Compare this to the National Football League (NFL), where one positive test for steroids leads to a four-game suspension, which is a quarter of the season.

The game of baseball has been already irreversibly mutilated by performance enhancing drugs and anabolic steroids and it is high time that we prefer to watch sports for athletic competition, and not consumption competition unless the word is about legal steroids.

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The steep drop in offense in context to baseball is primarily attributed to the ban on amphetamines and not on steroids as per a Major league official.

For admirers of baseball, this drop is all because of efforts by Bud Selig & Co. for piggybacking the amphetamines ban on top of the steroids testing agreement with the union of players.

From NYdailynews.com:

But forget for the moment that there have only been 20 perfect games in history and only seven from 1900 to 1968, the year of the pitcher, after which major league poobahs elected to lower the mound from 15 inches to 10 to generate more offense. What we’re seeing in baseball this season is a dramatic decrease in offense. According to the Elias Bureau, runs per game are down from 9.3 last year to 8.95 and home runs per game are down to 1.87 – the first time since 1993 (the beginning of the steroids era) they’ve been below two per game.

And there’s more: As of Friday, the Atlanta Braves’ Martin Prado was leading the National League in batting with a .327 average and barely a dozen players in the NL were hitting over .300. In back-to-back games this week – shades of Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn dueling for 15 scoreless innings on July 2, 1963 – the Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks played scoreless ball into extra innings, with L.A. prevailing both times, 1-0, in 10 innings and 14. Then there was the Phillies getting shut out in three successive games by the Mets at Citi Field. Lastly, there’s the Colorado Rockies’ phenomenal Ubaldo Jimenez, who’s having a season comparable to Bob Gibson in 1968, when the St. Louis Cardinal Hall of Fame righty posted the lowest ERA (1.12) in 54 years, losing five 1-0 games along the way.

Many baseball players of the past and fans have appreciated the efforts taken by Bud Selig to prevent the association of baseball and steroids from reaching new heights and getting subdued for betterment of the game.

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Eighty percent of poker players around the world reported using drugs and other products to enhance their performance in poker, as per a study by the Nova Southeastern University that was recently presented at a national conference.

Kevin Clauson, Pharm.D., an associate professor at NSU’s College of Pharmacy, who was the principle investigator in the study, said these drugs help poker players to stay awake longer and concentrate better to stay close to a competitive advantage.

From Newswise.com:

Poker players are using drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, Valium, and other prescription medications, as well as substances including caffeine, energy drinks and guarana to get an edge over their opponents.

“The use these substances could allow poker players to stay awake longer, as well as focus and concentrate better, which would be a competitive advantage,” said Kevin Clauson, Pharm.D., an associate professor at NSU’s College of Pharmacy, who was the principle investigator in the study. “Stamina is important for any poker player because tournament poker and cash games can go on for many hours.”

Using these substances can be harmful for poker players, Clauson said. Depending on the type of substance, he pointed out; there will likely be short-term and long-term side effects.

The NSU researchers initially interviewed players in Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker and then surveyed online players from across the globe.

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Steroids have reached every part of the world and Dominican Republic was not an exception. Young sportsmen are making use of anabolic steroids to get name, fame, money, and recognition to support themselves and their families despite being aware of the possible side effects of steroid use.

Bernardino Jimenez was a child in San Pedro de Macoris with big dreams for baseball. He got selected to play baseball but was lured by an agent who injected a mixture of Boldenone by saying that it was legal vitamins. Bernardino tested positive for Boldenone and received suspension for 50 games.

From TimesUnion.com:

Jimenez’s case is just one example of a disturbing trend in this hotbed of baseball talent.

Of the 69 minor leaguers suspended for using banned substances in 2008, nearly two thirds — 42 — came from the Dominican Summer League, a developmental program for Latin American players housed in secluded palm tree-lined campuses owned by big-league teams. This year, 31 of the 71 minor leaguers suspended for using banned substances came from the DSL.

In the major leagues, where performance-enhancing substances have been a divisive issue for more than a decade, players with Dominican roots have also been at the center of several high-profile drug cases.

Sammy Sosa and Manny Ramirez have been accused in stories by The New York Times of being on a list of more than 100 players alleged to have tested positive during an initial drug survey of MLB players six years ago. David Ortiz has acknowledged the union told him he was on the list, and slugger Alex Rodriguez, following a February report in Sports Illustrated, said he used steroids while with Seattle from 2001-03. Rodriguez said a cousin obtained a substance he knew as “boli” in the Dominican Republic.

This incident once again highlighted the fact that side effects of steroids, amphetamines, or performance enhancing drug are not the influencing factor when it comes to maximizing performance.

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In an announcement made at a meeting of baseball owners in Scottsdale, Arizona, an agreement was entered into by Major League baseball players and union officials for implementing tougher doping policies.

Baseball and union officials have expanded the list of banned substances though amphetamines will be something that players would not be tested for.

From NYTimes.com:

“I felt an obligation that some day, somebody could come up to you and say, ‘You people knew about this, and you didn’t do anything about it,’ ” Commissioner Bud Selig said on a conference call. “That was something I would have had a very hard time living with. But the fact of the matter is that today, we did something about it.”

Baseball did not adopt steroid testing for major leaguers until 2002, when it negotiated a program with the union that was roundly criticized as being too lenient. Rob Manfred, an executive vice president for baseball, said the new policy was different in the frequency of testing during the season; the addition of off-season testing; the number of banned substances; and the penalties.

Rob Manfred, an executive vice president for baseball, was of the view that this policy is as good as any policy in any professional sport.

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As per an article in issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, a peer-led and sport team-centered program helps in minimizing eating disordered behavior and drug use for body-shaping in female high school athletes.

It was revealed in the article that about half of high school students (male and female) participate in school sports and the pressure to excel in these events influence young women to come closer to disordered eating behaviors, drug use (tobacco, diet pills, diuretics, laxatives, amphetamines, and anabolic steroids).

From News-Medical.Net:

The researchers found that athletes participating in the ATHENA program reported significantly less ongoing and new use of diet pills, and less use of amphetamines, anabolic steroids, and sport supplements. These athletes also reported more seatbelt use and less new sexual activity. The ATHENA athletes also had positive changes in healthy eating behaviors, and reductions in intent to use diet pills in the future, vomiting to lose weight and tobacco use.

“The ATHENA curriculum succeeded in most of its prevention and health promotion goals,” the authors write. “Following their sport season, intervention students reported less ongoing and new diet pill use and less new use of athletic-enhancing, body-shaping substances (amphetamines, anabolic steroids, and muscle-building supplements). Experimental participants understood more about the presented topics, had improved self-reported dietary habits, and indicated greater self-efficacy for exercise training,” write the researchers.

The topics in the ATHENA program were gender specific and included information on effective exercise training, drug use, depression prevention, media images of women, and healthy sport nutrition.

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Bernardino Jimenez was a young child in San Pedro de Macoris who had a great flair for baseball and with big dreams in the eyes.

Years later, he became victim to an agent who injected a mixture of Boldenone by saying that it was legal vitamins. After being signed for a contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks’ training squad in 2008, Bernardino tested positive for Boldenone, anabolic steroid used in horses, which leaded to a suspension of fifty games.

From TimesUnion.com:

Jimenez’s case is just one example of a disturbing trend in this hotbed of baseball talent.

Of the 69 minor leaguers suspended for using banned substances in 2008, nearly two thirds — 42 — came from the Dominican Summer League, a developmental program for Latin American players housed in secluded palm tree-lined campuses owned by big-league teams. This year, 31 of the 71 minor leaguers suspended for using banned substances came from the DSL.

In the major leagues, where performance-enhancing substances have been a divisive issue for more than a decade, players with Dominican roots have also been at the center of several high-profile drug cases.

Sammy Sosa and Manny Ramirez have been accused in stories by The New York Times of being on a list of more than 100 players alleged to have tested positive during an initial drug survey of MLB players six years ago. David Ortiz has acknowledged the union told him he was on the list, and slugger Alex Rodriguez, following a February report in Sports Illustrated, said he used steroids while with Seattle from 2001-03. Rodriguez said a cousin obtained a substance he knew as “boli” in the Dominican Republic.

This incident is not just one-off case but a regular event with players coming from the Dominican Republic. The lure of fast and easy money leads most of the players coming from this country to take on steroids.

What is ignored by these sportsmen is the possible side effect(s) of steroids, amphetamines, or performance enhancing drugs and they are not reluctant to admit that steroids are still worth the risk.

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