Drugs & Sports

Catalog description

Course designed as an introduction to the knowledge of the roles that drugs play in modern day sport. The class will cover performance enhancing drugs, as well as the effects of prescription drugs, narcotics, over the counter drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and all other nutritional supplements used to enhance an athlete's performance. The class will cover the science of each classification of drug, all social and ethical issues that arise with the topic of drugs and sports, and cover the testing agencies, methods, and reporting of drug use in sports.