Anabolic androgenic steroids used as performance and image enhancing drugs in professional and amateur athletes: Toxicological and psychopathological findings.

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The use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AASs) as performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs), once restricted to professional athletes, now includes amateurs and regular gym visitors. AAS use is associated with psychopathology, yet this relationship is complex and not fully understood. We aimed to assess the presence of AASs and other misused substances in athletes' biological samples and link toxicological to psychopathological findings.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Hum Psychopharmacol

Title: Human psychopharmacology

Publisher: Wiley

ISSN (Electronic): 1099-1077

ISSN (Print): 0885-6222

Publication date (Electronic): Jan 2022

Volume: 37

Issue: 1

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[1 ] Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

[2 ] Center on Compulsive Behaviors, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

[3 ] Department of Neurosciences, Mental Health, and Sensory Organs, School of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

[4 ] Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

[5 ] Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine, and Orthopedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

[6 ] Center for Statistical and Social Studies (CE3S), Rome, Italy.

[7 ] Medication Development Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

[8 ] Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

[9 ] Division of Addiction Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

[10 ] Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA.

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Mid ID: NIHMS1742878

DOI: 10.1002/hup.2815

PMC ID: 8727496

PubMed ID: 34528289

SO-VID: 53deb672-c4b6-4a01-a1bf-807775204d40

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Keywords: anabolic androgenic steroids,athletes,performance and image enhancing drugs,psychopathology,toxicology

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Keywords: anabolic androgenic steroids, athletes, performance and image enhancing drugs, psychopathology, toxicology

Anabolic androgenic steroids used as performance and image enhancing drugs in professional and amateur athletes: Toxicological and psychopathological findings.

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