Steroids & Erogenic aids

Performance-enhancing drugs - used by amateurs as well as professional athletes, crosses many fields of competition, and includes use of anabolic steroids, EPO, blood transfusions, etc. Also, designer drugs in sports and the evolution of testing, which as the Armstrong controversies have shown, can now be done years after the fact.

Has drug testing gotten significantly better recently is the question we ask as this week more baseball players are banned for doping, and whether its a factor in Lance Armstrong's decision to end his years-long duel with the US Anti-Doping Agency over the question of whether he used performance enhancing drugs and techniques.

Sports and drugs this summer continues with a consideration of ethics and Olympian ideals ... promotion of fair play, education against doping – drug use... this summer included stripping a gold medal from a Belarus shot putter when her blood from 8 years ago was re-tested and found to have steroids ...

The Olympics ... ways athletes strive to enhance their performances ... by using drugs - as well as other techniques - like blood-doping ... also news about gambling -- it seems Facebook users are more inclined to gamble and make compulsive choices than "normies," and the related obsessions with FarmVille ...

Longtime sportcaster Brent Musburger recently created a controversy by saying steroids are OK for professional athletes to use, if under doctor supervision. Dr Inaba shares his thoughts about the physiological, and psychological of these drugs, as well as what it implies for the ethics of sportsmanship.

As the Olympics approach, a look at new research on EPO, Mark McGwire's admission of steroid use, and other issues of drugs and doping in sports.