# Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram

N Gibbs - Trends in Organized Crime, 2023 - Springer
This article sets out to investigate the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs
(IPEDs) on the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. Drawing upon a …

What is the prevalence of anabolic‐androgenic steroid use among women? A systematic review

T Piatkowski, B Whiteside, J Robertson, A Henning… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aim Evidence suggests there has been an increase in anabolic‐
androgenic steroid (AAS) use among women, driven by the evolving landscape of women's …

Gendered perspectives on women's anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) usage practices

T Piatkowski, J Robertson, S Lamon, M Dunn - Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 - Springer
Background The masculinizing effects from anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) appear to be
different between men and women, leading to calls for more gender-specific information …

Generating evidence on the use of Image and performance enhancing drugs in the UK: results from a scoping review and expert consultation by the Anabolic Steroid …

J McVeigh, E Hearne, I Boardley, G Bates, V Hope… - Harm reduction …, 2021 - Springer
Background The use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) and associated image and
performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) is now a global phenomenon. There is a need to …

Challenging hegemony through narrative: Centering women's experiences and establishing a sis-science culture through a women-only doping forum

J Andreasson, A Henning - Communication & Sport, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Understandings of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) and their use has
largely been conceptualized through the lens of male hegemonic patterns, treating women's …

[HTML][HTML] Getting big but not hard: A retrospective case-study of a male powerlifter's experience of steroid-induced erectile dysfunction

J Kotzé, A Richardson, GA Antonopoulos - International Journal of Drug …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article aims to excavate the lived experience of suffering with steroid-induced erectile
dysfunction. By drawing upon original qualitative data, we chart the subjective journey to …

[HTML][HTML] Novel wellbeing and repair peptide use in the UK: Netnographic findings

LA Turnock, E Hearne - Performance enhancement & health, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been an explosion of interest in synthetic peptides hormones promoted
for wellbeing enhancement purposes, including BPC-157, TB-500 and CJC-1295. With …

Challenges to Levelling Up: Post-COVID precarity in “left behind” Stoke-on-Trent

D Etherington, M Jones, L Telford - Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic both revealed and intensified the United Kingdom's (UK) regional
inequalities. The UK is widely recognised as one of the most regionally unbalanced nations …

Navigating Risks and Reducing Harm: A Gendered Analysis of Anabolic–Androgenic Steroid Users Within the Risk Environment Framework

T Piatkowski, M Dunn - Contemporary Drug Problems, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: The existing body of literature on harm reduction for those who use anabolic–
androgenic steroids (AASs) predominantly concentrates on men, thereby neglecting the …

Rethinking women's “performance and image-enhancing drug consumption”: An agenda for ontopolitically-oriented research

R Fomiatti, K Toffoletti… - Contemporary Drug …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Women's “performance and image-enhancing drug consumption” is a growing phenomenon
yet remains an under-studied area of research. This essay reviews the existing literature on …