BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Testicular Cancer, Libido, Rodenticide

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

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He collapsed 3 times and got the drug all 3: (cid:498)the marathon race demonstrated that drugs are of much benefit to athletes(cid:499) Adrenaline: used as a drug in 1901: treatment for heart problems. It was not ideal for sports: it has a short duration of action (minutes) and it required an iv injection, but, it was used in sports (boxers, to be specific) because it fired them up. First sports amphetamine use 1952 olympics: norwegian speed skating speed employed amphetamine use regularly, they didn(cid:495)t tell people very much because it gave them a competitive advantage over their competitors (not because it was thought to be bad) First studies of athlete use of amphetamine: 1959: looked at which sports benefit the most; low or high doses, etc, knud enemark jenson rome olympics 1962, in the 1960s the positive attitude towards amphetamines started to change. Tom simpson: tour de france 1967: mont-ventoux is a moon-scape.