Use of insulin as an anabolic agent.

sider it in the same way as any other health problem. This would mean taking into account the factors that encourage it as well as the clinical symptoms, desired effects, immediate or delayed complications, therapeutic acceptance, and social implications. In other words, doctors must change their attitude to doping in order not to limit this subject merely to a question of a list of banned substances. Moreover, doping should form an integral and specialised part of the studies undertaken by every medical student. This is urgently required considering the fact that doping agents such as anabolic steroids, human growth hormones, and stimulants are also used by people not taking part in sports.