ABSTRACT
In Chapter 7, it was argued that the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes could not be adequately understood if-and this is a characteristic of much of the public and policy discussion of the subject-attention is focused exclusively on the drug-using athletes. It was suggested, instead, that the illicit use of drugs by athletes was premised upon a network of co-operative relationships between those who were described as ‘innovating’ athletes and ‘entrepreneurial’ doctors. It would, however, be misleading to suggest that doctors are the only people, other than the athletes themselves, who are involved in the doping process, for it is clear that the network of people involved in fostering the use of drugs in sport, and in concealing their use, is considerably more complex and extensive, and that, in particular, it often involves many people in addition to athletes and doctors.
