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Our images of the nonmedical drug user normally include the heroin addict nodding in the doorway, the spaced-out marijuana smoker, and maybe, if we know that alcohol is a drug, the wino sprawled on the curb. We probably do not think of the Olympic gold medalist, the professional baseball player who is a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame, or the National Football League lineman. Yet these athletes and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of others regularly use drugs in the course of their training, performance, or both. I am talking not about recreational drug use—athletes use drugs for pleasure and relaxation probably no more or less than their contemporaries with comparable incomes—but about a much less discussed type of drug use: taking drugs to enhance performance.
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Murray, T.H. (1984). Drugs, Sports, and Ethics. In: Murray, T.H., Gaylin, W., Macklin, R. (eds) Feeling Good and Doing Better. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5168-2_7
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