NCAA Banned Substances
This type of drug is used to build muscle quickly but is banned by the NCAA due to unfair advantage and health risks.
What are anabolic steroids?
Ingredients that must be listed on a supplement label
What is every ingredient, not just the source of the vitamin or mineral?
A product intended for ingestion that, among other requirements, contains a "dietary ingredient" intended to supplement the diet?
What is a dietary supplement
The most common PED used by athletes.
What is Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS)?
Before taking certain medications, NCAA athletes often need this official approval for medical use.
Athletes who test positive for banned substances may face this consequence, meaning they cannot compete for a period of time.
What is suspension?
You should talk to this person before taking supplements, especially with ongoing medication
Who is your doctor?
This U.S law (passed in 1994) regulates dietary supplements differently from drugs.
What is the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act?
Location of 2012 summer Olympics with most positive doping tests (132) and 41 medals stripped.
Where is London?
This is the process where athletes provide samples to be checked for banned substances.
What is drug testing?
500mg or more of this, found in coffee, is illegal in the NCAA
What is Caffeine?
3 forms of supplements could include...
What are pills, tablets, capsules, gummies, softgels, liquids, powders? (All oral)
Manufacturers, not the FDA, are responsible for ensuring this about their supplements.
What is safety (and proper labeling)?
15-year-old Russian figure skater. It only came out after she won gold for the team event in the 2022 Bejing Olympics that she had tested positive for trimetazidine which her
Who is Kamila Valieva?
Failing a drug test can impact this status, which determines if a student can compete in college sports.
What is eligibility?
This class of drugs, which includes substances like Adderall when misused, is banned without a prescription in NCAA competition.
What are stimulants?
Regulator of the safety and advertisement of the effects a supplement
What is the company that sells it? (Not the FDA!)
This age group should be especially cautious with supplements due to developing bodies and a lack of regulation.
Who are teenagers?
St. Louis Cardinals player who used steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) during his 1998 record-breaking season in which he competed against Cub's Sammy Sosa. He admitted to his usage in 2010 and says he believed the drugs would help him heal faster.
Who is Mark McGwire?
This type of education program helps student-athletes understand banned substances and make safe choices.
What is drug education?
Even though some states have legalized it, this recreational drug is still banned for NCAA athletes during competition.
What is marijuana?
Taking supplements with other medications can change this aspect of the medication
what is drug metabolism? (speeding up/slowing down the body's processing of the drug)
This common supplement is used to increase muscle mass and improve high-intensity performance
What is creatine?
This PED was used in the first Ancient Greek Olympic Games. The Dutch word for it is "doop", origin of the word doping.
What is viscous opium juice?
NCAA rules focus on “in-competition” testing, meaning athletes can be penalized for using certain substances during this specific time period around games.
What is competition period? (in-season)