TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1981//
TI  - Intercollegiate sports participation and non-medical drug use
JO  - Bulletin on narcotics
A1  - Toohey, J. V.
A1  - Corder, B. W.
SP  - 23
EP  - 27
VL  - 33
IS  - 3
N2  - The purpose of this study was to determine if participation in a competitive intercollegiate sports programme would modify the non-medical drug and substance-use behaviour patterns of the participants as compared with their non-athletic counterparts. Sixty-seven intercollegiate swimmers and members of varsity swim teams at six American universities comprised the athlete population and were compared with 678 non-athletic under-graduates. A chi-square analysis of the data indicated no significant difference between athlete and non-athlete with respect to the most commonly used mood-modifying drugs. There was also no significant difference in drug-use behaviour between male and female athletes with respect to non-medical use of the common mod-modifying drugs although there was a significant difference between male and female athletes with respect to anabolic steroid use. A level of significance at the 0.05 level of confidence indicated male athletes more likely to use anabolic steroids than female athletes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-523X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -