Exam 12: Performance Enhancing Drugs and Drug Testing in Sports

Gynecomastia refers to __________.

The compound that baseball player Mark McGwire took in 1998 was __________.

The two primary effects testosterone has on the human body are _______and ________.

In 1886,a Welsh cyclist died while competing in a cross-country race due to ingestion of a combination of heroin and cocaine called a __________.

A lower voice is one of the reversible side effects of steroid abuse among female athletes.

Discuss the sensitivity and specificity issues in drug testing in general.Choose one drug of abuse and discuss the relevance of these issues with respect to testing for that drug.

Adrenocortical steroids __________.

A tendency for a procedure to give a false-positive result for a certain drug is a failure of __________.

Stacking refers to __________.

An advantage to urine testing is that __________.

Recent surveys indicate a decreasing concern among male adolescents about the appearance of their bodies.

Anabolic steroids disrupt a delicate balance of hormones in the body.Give three examples of these changes in terms of the physical side effects of steroid abuse.

Any substance that enhances the performance of some task is called __________.

Of the two major urinalysis methods,__________.

The practice of taking steroids for periods lasting four to eighteen weeks is known as cycling.

Although the FDA classifies dietary supplements as drugs,they may be marketed and sold without a prescription.

Which of the following athletic organizations does NOT conduct testing for steroids?

Anabolic steroids are smuggled into the United States from __________.

At the Olympic Games in Greece in 300 B.C. ,athletes ____ to enhance their performance.

Short-term use of creatine has been found to produce muscle cramping.