Stimulants in Sports

摘要

Despite the banning of ephedra, recent research and trends suggest that stimulants are still a problem in sports. Either an alarming epidemic of attention-deficit hyper-activity disorder (ADHD) has sprung up, or athletes are seeking ADHD drugs to rev up for their sport. Soon after major league baseball banned amphetamines, according to the Mitchell Report, the number of exemptions for ADHD drugs nearly quadrupled, so that in 2007 nearly 8% of all players had been "diagnosed" with ADHD. College baseball may be following suit.