ABSTRACT
This chapter considers certain impacts that might be consequent upon the criminalisation of aspects of the use of certain performance enhancing drugs. The use of such a powerful regulatory and socialising machinery against a statistically minute group of people is worthy of closer scrutiny. Central to the wider issues in relation to the use of such drugs is the submission that criminal controls, beyond those that one would expect for consumer protection, help neither the image of sport nor the health of the noncompetitive user.
