| Popis: |
Psychoactive substances have a long history of use as doping substances in sport, usually constituting the second most used drug class behind anabolic steroids. In addition to classic stimulants, a more disturbing problem is the increasing availability of novel psychoactive substances (NPS). The challenges faced by anti-doping authorities regarding these NPS are of the same kind as those experienced by public health authorities and law enforcement agencies. These include easy access to raw material for synthesis, rapid and worldwide dissemination of the products and difficulty to analytically characterize these unknown chemical entities and their metabolites. Information and resource sharing between the different parties concerned in detecting and curtailing the production, distribution and use of NPS, either from a health or anti-doping fields, should be encouraged to effectively counteract the use of NPS in society and sports. |
