Emerging Drugs in Sport

Front Matter
Dedication
Foreword 1
Witold Banka 
Foreword 2
Claude Guillou
Preface
Olivier Rabin and Ornella Corazza
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
List of Contributors

Body Matter

Part I the evolving doping scenario

• The Evolution of Performance-Enhancing Drug Use in Sport
  Barrie Houlihan
• Contamination of Sports Supplements with Novel Psychoactive Substances: An Old History with New Players!
  Irene E. Mazzoni
• Untested Supplement Use Among Athletes: An Overlooked Phenomenon?
  Attilio Negri, Honor Townshend and Ornella Corazza
• Challenges Posed by Gene Manipulations and Sport Performance 
  Odile Cohen-Haguenauer

Part II Navigating in a Difficult Regulatory Environment

• The ‘Forced’ Union of Science and Law
  Julien Sieveking
• International Drug Control: Protecting the Health of the Athlete
  Justice N.A. Tettey, Conor Crean, Asma Fakhri and Clare Jones de Rocco
• Tackling New Forms of Doping: The Legal Challenges
  Jean-Pierre Morand, Ross Wenzel and Nicolas Zbinden

Part III Towards a doping Society?

• Olympism and the Idea of Anti-doping: Between the Thick and Thin Interpretations of Sporting Progress
  Sigmund Loland and Mike McNamee
• Emerging Trends in Doping: Investigations and Field Operations
  Gunter Younger, Meike Younger, Sebastien Gaillard
• Anti-doping Stories Narrated by a Law Enforcement Investigator – Mind the “Good Guys”!
  Renzo Ferrante
• The Performance Enhanced: Clinical Relationships Between Performance- and/or Image-Enhancing Drugs, Physical Exercise and Mental Disorders
  Pierluigi Simonato, Angela Scoppettone, Francesco Saverio Bersani, and Silvia Rossato

Part IV Winning at any cost:

Doping experiences of world-class Athletes

• Faster and Dirtier for Russia: The Story of Yuliya Stepanova
  Yuliya Stepanova (née Rusanova)
• Is It Worth Winning a Race if You Lose Yourself in the Process? An Interview with Olympic Champion Tyler Hamilton
  Honor Townshend
• A Hammer Thrower’s Journey with Doping: Being the Phoenix of My Own Life
  Quentin Bigot
• To Take or Not to Take? Why I Chose to Stay Clean
  Toby Atkins

Part V Truth in the Test Tubes?

• Forensic Analysis of Seized Drugs
  Emily D. Lockhart
• Analysis of New Chemical Entities in a Sport Context
  Mario Thevis and Tiia Kuuranne
• Hair Testing of Doping Agents: Potential and Limitations
  Detlef Thieme and Patricia Anielski

Part VI the next challenge

• What Will the Next Challenges Be?
  Audrey Kinahan and Mark Stuart

Back Matter 

Epilogue
Olivier Rabin and Ornella Corazza 

Athletes are always aiming to be faster, better, stronger. New techniques to enhance their sporting performance have increasingly been linked to use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and other hard-to-detect substances like performance-enhancing drugs. This book offers a timely analysis of the new challenges posed by this phenomenon in the anti-doping community. 

The authors present the first comprehensive perspective on the rapidly shifting doping scenario and reflect on use, regulation, policy, and market structure of NPS used in sports. They highlight the challenges with the list of prohibited substances and methods in and out of competition. They also evaluate how methods to detect new drugs present an ongoing battle for doping control as they have to be adapted constantly. Topics covered within the chapters include:

• Contamination of Sports Supplements with Novel Psychoactive Substances
• Untested Supplement Use Among Athletes: An Overlooked Phenomenon?
• International Drug Control: Protecting the Health of the Athlete
• Analysis of New Chemical Entities in a Sport Context 

Emerging Drugs in Sport establishes a clear benchmark on the policy discussion, drawing from available evidence and sources, including athletes' personal experiences, to generate a fact-based resource that informs a research as well as wider audience. The book is essential reading for those working in anti-doping, substance misuse, sports, ethics, and human enhancement. It also is useful for policy-makers, legislative personnel, and other professionals with an interest in protecting clean sport.

“Doping is one of the greatest threats to the integrity of sport. We must never be tempted to turn our back on the problem and hope it will disappear. The benefits and values of clean sport have never been more important to the world. That is why this book with its wide-ranging approach is so valuable.” - Thomas Bach, President, International Olympic Committee

“Physical activity is vital to a healthy living, which is why doping is not just an assault on fair competition, but also on health. I strongly commend this book for compiling advanced knowledge on performance-enhancing drugs and promoting health through sport.” - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization

Olivier Rabin, PhD is the Senior Executive Director in charge of Science and Medicine at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Over the years, he has established an international reputation as an expert in pharmaceutical research and development. With a background in fundamental and applied toxicology, he is the author of numerous scientific publications.

Ornella Corazza, PhD is an Associate Professor in Substance Addiction and Behaviours at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK and leading scholar in the field of novel psychoactive substances. Her work has been presented in numerous peer-reviewed publications, books and invited lectures and recognised internationally with various prizes and awards. She is the President of the International Society for the Study of Emerging Drugs (ISSED).