Anything but androgens: How image and performance enhancing drug consumers manage body composition and health through off-label use of medicines
Performance Enhancement & Health,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown, С. 100329 - 100329
Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025
Язык: Английский
The material practices and social dimensions of community care among people who use, produce, and supply image and performance enhancing drugs
Addiction Research & Theory,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 8
Опубликована: Март 3, 2025
Background:
People
who
use
image
and
performance-enhancing
drugs
(IPEDs)
face
intersecting
challenges,
including
legal
constraints,
stigma,
inadequate
healthcare
support,
which
perpetuate
health
risks.
Peer-led
harm
reduction
practices
emerge
as
vital
alternatives,
fostering
trust,
sharing
ethnopharmacological
knowledge,
addressing
gaps
left
by
formal
systems.
This
study
explored
how
care
connoisseurship
are
enacted
within
IPED
communities,
emphasizing
peer
roles
in
navigating
risks,
enhancing
safety,
reshaping
through
collective
expertise.
Methods:
Semi-structured
interviews
with
four
men
manufacture,
supply,
practices.
Using
a
Science
Technology
Studies-informed
case
approach,
analysis
foregrounded
relational
socio-material
dynamics,
challenging
deficit-based
narratives
offering
insights
into
community
is
peer-led
what
this
could
mean
for
policy
development.
Results:
IPEDs
transition
from
consumption
to
production
supply
response
mainstream
systemic
barriers.
Participants
highlighted
tensions
socio-legal
medical
frameworks,
these
barriers
connoisseurship.
By
of
care,
they
ensured
quality,
informed
use,
traditional
discourses
the
social
material
interplay
shaping
safer-use
strategies.
Conclusions:
The
collectively
demonstrate
commitment
community-driven
contrasting
sharply
their
experiences
healthcare.
Our
directs
more
careful
consideration
potential
rethinking
interventions
align
community-led
approaches
that
emphasize
autonomy,
care.
Язык: Английский
Examining the association between trenbolone, psychological distress, and aggression among males who use anabolic-androgenic steroids
International Journal of Drug Policy,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
134, С. 104636 - 104636
Опубликована: Ноя. 1, 2024
Язык: Английский
The IPEDs assemblage: Tracing the entanglements of biomedicine, technology, enhancement and anti-doping policies in sport and society
Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Дек. 18, 2024
The
US
Anti-Doping
Agency
(USADA)
and
Ultimate
Fighting
Championship
(UFC)
recently
ended
their
anti-doping
partnership
amidst
controversy.
We
treat
this
decision,
the
motivations
underpinning
it,
as
a
means
of
exploring
complexities
norms
blurred
lines
between
image
performance
enhancing
drug
(IPED)
use
in
sport
wider
society.
Drawing
ideas
from
assemblage
thinking,
we
analyse
evolving
power
dynamics
surrounding
IPED
use,
policy,
role
popular
athletes
shaping
societal
perceptions
of,
potential
harms
associated
with
IPEDs.
study
offers
case
analysis
recent
controversies
UFC
to
investigate
entanglements
biomedicine,
technology
celebrity
culture
what
call
assemblage.
2023
termination
USADA-UFC
has
sparked
debates
about
shifts
standards,
raising
concerns
weaker
testing
protocols
normalisation.
Conor
McGregor's
injury
recovery
alleged
underscores
therapeutic
enhancement
within
assemblage,
challenging
conventional
distinctions
'good'
'bad'
drugs
context
sports
management
policy
making.
highlight
inadequacy
current
doping
policies
responding
need
shift
public
discourse
foster
more
critical
understanding
strategies
drive
innovation
frameworks.
Язык: Английский