It's a College Thing
The most commonly used substance among college students and student athletes.
What is alcohol?
Using this substance regularly reduces aerobic performance and endurance, decreases the body's ability to repair muscle fiber, and doubles the rate of injury.
What is alcohol?
A nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 American, Canadian, and Puerto Rican schools.
What is the National Collegiate Athletic Association?
In 2009, this eight-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer lost his endorsement contract with Kellogg’s after a photo emerged of him smoking cannabis.
Dried figs, coca leaves, animal hearts and testes, brandy, wine, strychnine, morphine, champagne, belladonna, methamphetamine, EPO, and cocaine are all early examples of these.
What are performance-enhancing drugs?
24% of college students report doing this in the last 2 weeks; an activity defined as consuming 4+ drinks (female at birth) or 5+ drinks (male at birth) in a short period of time.
This substance can impair balance and coordination, slow reaction time, distort sensory perception, increase heart rate, and lead to respiratory problems when smoked or vaped.
What is cannabis?
Consenting to this is a condition of participating in athletics at UTC.
In 2012, this athlete was stripped of seven Tour de France titles after it was discovered that he was using performance-enhancing drugs throughout all of his wins.
Who is Lance Armstrong?
The term for using performance-enhancing drugs.
Though it's becoming legal in increasingly more places, this substance can increase anxiety and cause problems with coordination, judgement, learning, memory, and reaction time.
What is cannabis?
These substances can cause an increase in body temperature, blood pressure, and dehydration.
What are stimulants (prescription or non-prescription--can range from caffeine and ephedrine to amphetamines and cocaine)?
Student-athletes competing in Divisions I and II sports are subject to ___________.
What is the Year-round testing?
In 2020, this country was banned from competing in the Olympic Games for 2 years due to participating in a state-run initiative to provide athletes with performance-enhancing drugs.
What is Russia?
These are man-made chemicals that act like testosterone in the body and are used by athletes hoping to develop extreme amounts of muscle mass.
What are anabolic steroids?
Greek life, peer influence, low perception of harm, academic pressures, time of transition, and culture are all reasons we see an increase in this among college students.
What is substance use?
These may compromise breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure and may cause lack of awareness of important pain signals.
What are narcotics (pain medication)?
After the third one of these, a student athlete is no longer eligible to participate in the athletics program and will lose any athletic-specific scholarship or financial aid.
What is a positive drug screen?
This MLB player was suspended for 162 games after it was revealed in 2013 that he had been receiving human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing drugs from Biogenesis, a Florida-based clinic.
Who is Alex Rodriguez?
The athletic competition in 668 BC where we see the earliest records of performance-enhancing drug use in sports, when athletes are reported to have taken figs to improve their performance.
What are the Ancient Olympic Games?
A program designed to support students who may be struggling with substance use or are in recovery.
What is a Collegiate Recovery Program?
Though some believe this can help their athletic performance, doing this can cause shortness of breath, lung disease, and heart problems due to reducing oxygen and blood flow in the body
What is vaping?
It includes the following:
Stimulants; Anabolic agents; Alcohol & beta blockers; Diuretics & other masking agents, Narcotics; Cannabinoids; Peptide hormones, growth factors, related substances and mimetics; Hormone & metabolic modulators; and Beta-2 agonists.
What is the 2022-2023 NCAA Banned Substances List?
These three sports consistently rank at the top for having the highest number of doping violations.
What are track & field, cycling, and bodybuilding?
The year that the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF), the governing body for the sport of track and field, became the first international sporting federation to prohibit doping by athletes.
What is 1928?