Recommended Library Resources:
- Facts.com includes a good background article on Performance-Enhancing Substances, found in the "Issues and Controversies" section.
- Search "Steroids" AND "Athletes" (combining two search terms) in Academic Search Premier for the latest information and professional publications.
Internet Resources --
- Baseball's Steroid Hearings -- Collection of stories from National Public Radio (NPR) on the hearings by U.S. Congress in 2005 "about use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball.
- Drugs and Sports - Comprehensive portal to all types of information on drug use in sports
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: Steroids - Comprehensive portal of links and professional papers on steroid use
- Q&A on Anabolic Steroids from Duke U
- Drug Facts: Steroids
- Steroids, Sports and the Ethics of Winning (team physician, 49er's)
- Injecting an Edge: the science behind performance-enhancing substances
- NIDA – Increasing Teen Use of Anabolic Steroids
- Anabolic Steroids – Hidden Dangers (Department of Justice)
- DEA Congressional Testimony on the "Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004"
- Four versions of the Act as introduced
- Center for Substance Abuse Research – includes history of steroid use
- NIDA Research Report – from the Department of Health and Human Services
- Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine and Science