ABSTRACT
This chapter considers several recent drug scandals in college sports to introduce and discuss many complex issues related to doping, testing, enforcement, health, ethics, and the future of performance-enhancing drug (PED) use within college athletics. The Associated Press (AP) report critiqued the testing establishment and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for focusing on marijuana and other street drugs over PEDs. The NCAA and other professional sports organizations also ban the use of amphetamines. Jared Foster was one of several former players cited in the AP report who attested to a broader culture of PED use than reported in NCAA data. Not only are anabolic steroids, HGH, amphetamines, and other purported PEDs illegal in competition by the NCAA, but they are also federally controlled substances, and their nonmedical possession, distribution, and use are felonies by law. Testing college student-athletes would be significantly more costly because the NCAA has more member institutions than does any other amateur or professional sports organization.
