Drugs
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- Created on: 04-04-17 14:46
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- Drugs
- Types of drugs
- Recreational: Drugs used for lesuire
- Performance Enhancing: Drugs used to impropve sporting performance
- BAD SNaP
- Medicinal Drugs: Drugs prescribed to a patient for medical reasons
- Stimulants
- Can control your reations to increase mental and physical alertness
- Can cause high blood pressure, strokes, addiction and heart/liver problems
- Anabolic Steroids
- mimic testosterone to increase bone and muscle growth
- Can make you agressive, cause heart disease, infertility and cancer. Also women can grow facial hair and have a deepened voice
- Diuretics
- increase amount you urinate leading to weight loss. Can aslo mask traces of other drugs
- can cause cramp and dehydration
- Narcotic Anagesics
- Mask Pain so you can train harder/ perform for longer
- Addictive and increase injury
- Peptide Hormones
- Stimulate production of other hormones
- EPO is one used to increase red blood cell production
- Can cause strokes and abnormal growth patterns
- Beta Blockers
- Control heart rate to steady nerves and cause relaxation.
- can cause low blood pressure, cramp and heart failure
- Types of drugs
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