Doping in sport covers the use or supply of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes. The National Institute on Drug Abuse calls anabolic-androgenic steroids the best-studied class of appearance and performance enhancing drugs, which are used to build muscle mass or to enhance athletic performance. Although they do not typically produce a euphoric high, people who use them may develop a substance use disorder, and anabolic steroids can cause severe, long-lasting and sometimes irreversible damage, including early heart attacks, strokes, liver tumors, kidney failure and psychiatric problems.
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National Institute on Drug Abuse: Anabolic Steroids and Other Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs
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APEDs are used to improve appearance by building muscle mass or to enhance athletic performance.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: 21 U.S. Code § 333 - Penalties
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Except as provided in paragraph (2), whoever knowingly distributes, or possesses with intent to distribute, human growth hormone for any use in humans other than the treatment of a disease or other recognized medical condition, where such use has been authorized by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 355 of this title and pursuant to the order of a physician, is guilty of an offense punishable by not more than 5 years in prison, such fines as are authorized by title 18, or both.
Doping in sport (Wikipedia)
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In competitive sports, doping is the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletes as a way of cheating.
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