title: Success, Failure, and Unfinished Business of Education, Prevention, Policy, and Intervention Programs on Substance Misuse in Brazilian Sport.
abstract: The current Brazilian situation is such that it is difficult to obtain a worldwide evaluation of failure in education, intervention, or prevention programs. How fragile Brazil's anti-doping system is, its appropriateness as well as its relevance, with needed policy infrastructures for achieving the selected goals, and how wide the gap is between education and prevention program effectiveness between high-performance athletes and recreational practitioners who just want to look good. An additional concern, and ever present flaw regarding Brazil's "common sportsman" in day-to-day society is their not receiving known and necessary "sports education," enabling the development of an "at-risk" population for self-harm. Reflections on public health policy are noted.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths , University of London , London , UK.|b Laboratory of Research in Human Performance , University of Pernambuco , Recife , Brazil.
authors.forename: Azenildo M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Santos
mesh_terms: D045930:Anabolic Agents; D056352:Athletes; D001938:Brazil; D004300:Doping in Sports / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006266:Health Education; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D058573:Performance-Enhancing Substances; D013177:Sports; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D045930:Anabolic Agents; D058573:Performance-Enhancing Substances
keywords: public policy, appearance and performance-enhancing substances, anabolic-androgenic steroids (AASs), sports doping