Doping and its various destinations

Article by Beppe Cart

Until about twenty years ago the word doping was known only to professional athletes and sports experts. Today this term of Anglo-Saxon origin is known to all of us, due to the repeated repetition of cases involving numerous elite athletes.

I like to emphasize, that almost all doping drugs have been designed to treat various diseases: for example, some peptide hormones can stimulate the endogenous production of testosterone, some stimulants such as amphetamines, the hormone GH also known as growth hormone, the erythropoietic hormone etc ... Think, some stimulants and anabolic steroids were conceived in the forties to give a psychophysical "help" to the German and American soldiers during the second world war. Recently, some scientists have been able to modify just anabolic steroids (already known to sports doping), in order not to make them traceable to doping controls. From the second world war to the year 2014 the "doping" phenomenon has continued to massively affect military and paramilitary bodies, such as the police, the army, the fire brigade. The doping of the police and of the soldiers took hold in the forties, and in time it spread, becoming more and more dangerous for health. A long story also has doping adopted in body building, born in the fifties in the United States. The body builders, in spite of the soldiers who took doping drugs in defined periods and in contained doses, were driven by an unbridled desire to grow their muscles, taking doping drugs in quantities hugely higher than those for which these drugs were been tested in the therapeutic field. Also in the fifties, the actors to whom body power was requested also experienced doping, especially if this was required shortly before the film began. Gradually, from the cinema doping will be transmitted to various types of show (theater, dance, show business in general). Thanks to the areas of diffusion just mentioned (show business, military, body builders), at the beginning of the seventies the pharmaceutical companies discovered a really attractive reality, though perverse and staggering: countless healthy subjects to appear are willing to take huge amounts of drugs, which were originally born to cure diseases, thus taking on the risk of becoming sick people. Through the use of real calculated and distribution strategies, various companies have put several drugs on the market, especially hormonal ones, passing them off as food supplements, or as miraculous remedies against aging. This falsified use of drugs, implemented by many companies often active in the black market and that better than anyone are aware of the relative harmfulness, is a good outlet.

Meditate people .... !!!