Performance Enhancing Drugs Volume 25 Supplement 1 Author:Gold Patients with the goal to enhance physical or mental performance find it increasingly easier to obtain drugs on their own without a physician s help thus paving the path to medical consequences from irregular heart beats to addiction to death. Performance-Enhancing Medications and Drugs of Abuse explores various medications currently being abuse... more »d by patients, from the drugs used for physical and cosmetic purposes by weekend warriors, professional athletes, and other at-risk populations, to the drugs used to enhance mood and memory. This invaluable source explains the risks, adverse consequences, and options available to inhibit the spread of performance-enhancing drug abuse into our society.« less