ABSTRACT
Over the last two decades a growing amount of evidence has become available about the extent of illicit drug use in sport. Although much of this evidence has been anecdotal, some has come from relatively reliable sources like parliamentary or judicial inquiries at which evidence is given under oath. Although we cannot be sure of the precise level of drug use in modern sport, most writers agree that the phenomenon has increased markedly since the Second World War and in the last three decades in particular. Mottram has recently cited drug use as ‘perhaps the biggest challenge facing sport today’. 1
