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Classifying Steroids as Controlled Substances Suggested to Decrease Athletes' Supply, but Enforcement Could Be a Major Problem

Classifying Steroids as Controlled Substances Suggested to Decrease Athletes' Supply, but... A DIFFERENT approach to controlling the use of anabolic steroids has been proposed by William N. Taylor, MD, student health physician at Washington State University, Pullman. He wants to see steroids become controlled substances. Support for his suggestion appears to be growing. Taylor is a physician "crew chief" for the US Olympic Committee's Drug Control Program. He says he bases his suggestion on the belief that the effects of anabolic steroids on personality and psychosexual activity are so profound and disturbing that control is warranted. Taylor says also that these drugs have abuse potential that has already been demonstrated (Hormonal Manipulation: A New Era of Monstrous Athletes. Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co Inc Publishers, 1986). "I've been ahead of my time on this," he says, recounting his struggles to bring anabolic steroid misuse to the attention of his colleagues. Like many other researchers, he has an athletic background himself and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Classifying Steroids as Controlled Substances Suggested to Decrease Athletes' Supply, but Enforcement Could Be a Major Problem

JAMA , Volume 257 (22) – Jun 12, 1987

Classifying Steroids as Controlled Substances Suggested to Decrease Athletes' Supply, but Enforcement Could Be a Major Problem

Abstract


A DIFFERENT approach to controlling the use of anabolic steroids has been proposed by William N. Taylor, MD, student health physician at Washington State University, Pullman. He wants to see steroids become controlled substances.
Support for his suggestion appears to be growing. Taylor is a physician "crew chief" for the US Olympic Committee's Drug Control Program.
He says he bases his suggestion on the belief that the effects of anabolic steroids on personality and...
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American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.1987.03390220023006
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Abstract

A DIFFERENT approach to controlling the use of anabolic steroids has been proposed by William N. Taylor, MD, student health physician at Washington State University, Pullman. He wants to see steroids become controlled substances. Support for his suggestion appears to be growing. Taylor is a physician "crew chief" for the US Olympic Committee's Drug Control Program. He says he bases his suggestion on the belief that the effects of anabolic steroids on personality and psychosexual activity are so profound and disturbing that control is warranted. Taylor says also that these drugs have abuse potential that has already been demonstrated (Hormonal Manipulation: A New Era of Monstrous Athletes. Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co Inc Publishers, 1986). "I've been ahead of my time on this," he says, recounting his struggles to bring anabolic steroid misuse to the attention of his colleagues. Like many other researchers, he has an athletic background himself and

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JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jun 12, 1987

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