Performance Enhancing Drugs Banned From the Olympics and Sports

Stimulants are substances that affect the brain by stimulating the human body bin multiple ways. Stimulants increase assertiveness, strength, energy, and more, thus helping pro and amateur athletes feel better. Misusing these stimulants will cause an increase to body temperature and blood pressure or cause irregular heartbeat, potentially leading to a stroke or heart attack. Prohibited stimulants include cocaine, pipradol, bromantan, terbutaline, amineptine, strychnine, phentermine, salbutamol, amiphenazole, mesocarb, amphetamines, carphedon, pentylentetrazol, ephedrines, fencamfamine, phenylpropanolamine, and salmenterol.

*Steroids ? Anabolic: Body-building or anabolic steroids can often mimic certain elements of male sex hormones including testosterone because they stimulate bone and muscle cells to create proteins. Steroids can raise blood pressure, create hardening of the arteries and also raise risk of certain types of liver or heart disease and even cancer.

*Diuretics ? Diuretics can eliminate bodily fluid can treat high blood pressure, heart failure, kidney and liver diseases, but they can often be misused by athletes to lose weight or dilute other drugs from the urine. Examples of diuretics: hydrochlorothiazide, chlorthalidone, ethacrynic acid, mersalyl, acetazolamide, bumetanide, furosemide, mannitol, spironalactone, triamterene.

*Human Growth Hormone (HGH) ? A naturally occurring hormone that stimulates protein development. HGH injections stimulate tissue and muscle growth.