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How performance-enhancing drugs work (How Stuff Works, USA)

Discusses why some athletes use drugs, what the major classes of drugs and their side effects are, and how drug use is tested.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/athletic-drug-test.htm

Facts about substances (Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority)

Provides information about substances including side-effects and status in the World Anti-Doping Code Prohibited List.
http://www.asada.gov.au/substances/facts/index.htm

Drugs in sport research (National Measurement Institute, Australia)

Describes research on the detection of erythropoietin, human growth hormone, anabolic steroids and administered endogenous steroids.
http://www.measurement.gov.au/index.cfm?event=object.showContent&objectID=B54CCEF6-BCD6-81AC-148843FC82CAB33E

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (transcripts)

• Doping for gold (Catalyst, 31 July 2008)
  Discusses gene doping for performance enhancement in sport.
  http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2320588.htm

• The genetic basis for ability in sports (The Science Show, 2 December 2006)
  Reports on a database of sportspeople and the genes they have in common to find out what makes some people good at sport.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1801728.htm

• Doping tests may fail in court (News in Science, 29 July 2004)
  Looks at the difficulties in producing scientifically valid tests for drugs taken by athletes for performance enhancement.
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1164674.htm

• Tarnished gold (Four Corners, 23 March 2004)
  Investigates the use of drugs in sport and Australia's approach to the problem.
  http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2004/transcripts/s1072143.htm

Olympic challenge: transcript (28 March 2000, Frontline Scotland, BBC news, UK)

A program about the increase in positive drug tests for the banned anabolic steroid, nandrolone. Includes comments from athletes, coaches, sports administrators, manufacturers of sports supplements, medical doctors and scientists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/692155.stm