Development of Doping in sports: overview and analysis

Doping is a public health issue and not simply a problem inside the professional sports community It isa complex and ancient phenomenon considering the vast variety of substances, supplied through both legal andillegal trading routes. It occurs in elite athletes but also affects amateur athletes and was generally considered asdangerous and unhealthy. Furthermore, it involves athletes’ friends and relatives, medical staff, managers,chemists, biologists and pharmacists, pharmaceutical industries, clandestine laboratories and criminalorganizations. Over time, doping has shown a great ability to discover and always use new substances andappropriated the new scientific discoveries. Unfortunately, new discoveries for the human health are been usedin distorted way by the athletes. In fact, the athletes may be able to use gene therapy to re-engineer their bodiesfor better performances. Drug dependence depends on several factors: the socio-environmental context of thesubject and what effects have the substance in the body. We will agree that sport is essentially under the currentanti-doping campaign executed by a coordinated alliance between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA),law enforcement authorities, sports organizers and the media. This paper explores comprehensive description ofthe state of doping and its regulation in the modern Olympic Movement.