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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Doping in Sports and the TCC Library

Reports of athletes and performance enhancing drugs have reached into all major sports. Baseball, hockey, football, and cycling are often in the headlines, but the problem extends into other sports as well, and from high school and college students to professional athletes. Side effects of steriods, the most common of the abused drugs, include heart and liver damage, strokes, and increased irritability and aggression. The TCC Library collection contains a number of resources on this timely subject.
Mitchel Report released Dec. 13th, 2007 - links to ESPN coverage, full-text available

Books in the TCC Library

Juicing the game : drugs, power, and the fight for the soul of Major League Baseball by Howard Bryant. Viking,2005. GV877.5 .B78 2005

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When winning costs too much : steroids, supplements, and scandal in today’s sports by John McCloskey. 2005

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Performance-enhancing drugs Greenhaven Press,2003.

E-Books in the TCC Library


Fastest, highest, strongest: a critique of high-performance sport by Rob Beamish, Routledge, 2006.

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Testosterone dreams: rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping by John Hoberman. Berkeley, 2005.

Websites

Drugs in Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)"This site provides an in-depth look at drug use in the sport world through BBC news articles and features. Read arguments for and against the use of drugs in sports, learn about nandrolone, view a history of drugs in sports, and look at the science of drugs and sports."URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/in_depth/2000/drugs_in_sport/default.stm


Steroid Prevention Program Scores With High School Athletes. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)"A NIDA-funded drug abuse prevention program is showing high school football players that they do not need to take anabolic steroids to build powerful muscles and improve athletic performance. By educating student athletes about the harmful effects of anabolic steroids and providing nutrition and weight-training alternatives to steroid use, the program has increased football players' healthy behaviors and reduced their intentions to use steroids." (NIDA) Learn more about the results of this program.URL: http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol12N4/steroid.html

U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)"The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has "full authority for testing, education, research and adjudication for U.S. Olympic, Pan Am Games, and Paralympic athletes. It is USADA's responsibility to develop a comprehensive national anti-doping program for the Olympic Movement in the United States." (USADA) URL: http://www.usantidoping.org/

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)"Through a collective initiative led by the International Olympic Committee, WADA was created in November 1999 to support and promote fundamental values in sport." (WADA)URL: http://www.wada-ama.org/en/

Databases With Special Collections

Opposing Viewpoints

Database require use of a TCC ID card

SIRS Leading Issues


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