Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Wisconsin Pediatrician-Ethicist Says Don't Ban Steroids, Jan. 25, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Norman Fost, a Madison, Wis., pediatrician and a medical ethicist, has a problem with performance-enhancing drugs and sports. Specifically, he doesn't understand why the sports world has a problem with athletes who use drugs and why regulatory bodies go to such great lengths to ban performance-enhancing drugs in competition." (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL) This article outlines Norman Fost's controversial belief that it doesn't make sense to ban athletes from using performance-enhancing drugs while other unnatural methods such as high-altitude training, carbo-loading, nutritional supplements and high-tech equipment are permitted.
1522-3256;
Athletes--Drug use Doping in sports Medical ethics Physicians--Attitudes Steroids