PREVENTING DOPING IN NORWAY

new programs and best practices

Fredrik Lauritzen PhD, Director

Centre for Doping Prevention and Public Health

About Anti-Doping Norway

• Established in 2003

• Carries out doping controls and conducts prosecution activities

• Promotes values, information and preventive work aimed at fighting doping in sports

• Contribute in the fight against doping in society Ullevål Stadion: Home of Anti-Doping Norway

Centre for Doping Prevention and Public health

• Established in 2014

• Focuses on doping as a societal problem

• Funded by Norwegian Directorate of Health

Ullevål Stadion: Home of Anti-Doping Norway

Our goal:

Be the leading authority on relevant

information and education for youth,

teachers, public officials, health personell and

fitness centers in Norway

• Clean exercise

• Education of health personell

• Nationwide lecture program

«on demand»

• Mobilizing counties against

doping

• Fitness centre program

Selected focus areas for 2015/2016

clean exercise (no: ren trening)

Survey: UngData 2014

50% of Norwegian youth are discontent with

their physical appearance

Survey: Asker kommune

«There is a lot of pressure about appearance nowadays.

One should have the biggest muscles, as well as thin.

You have to be fit,

if not, you are not good enough,

you are not pretty enough»

Teenage girl

Female user of anabolic steroids

Ingveig Innerdal (2015).

Anabolic Steroids among women

Norwegian School of Sports Sciences

«The optimal preventive measure

against doping would be to educate

youth about how to reach their fitness

goals without using anything.

It´s possible, it just takes longer»

We want to promote healthy and drug-free exercise

• Exercise principles

• Strength training

• Endurance training

• Dietary supplements

• Anti-DopingHercules project

Lecture

Booklet

Booklet

Lecture

• 45 min

• Target group:

adolescents

• High school students

• 10 weeks duration

• Questionnaire on knowledge of side effects, intent to

use, self-image (week 1 and 10)

• 3 theoretical lectures (week 2-3)

• 1 practical lecture (week 2-3)

• 8 weeks of supervised strength training (week 2-9)

About

Hercules project

education of health personell

• Two-day seminar for physicians on health

consequences of using AAS

• One-day seminar for nurses

• Booklet for health personell

• E-learning program for physicians through The

Norwegian Medical Association, launch in 2016

• Two-day seminar for physicians on health

consequences of using AAS

• One-day seminar for nurses

• Booklet for health personell

• E-learning program for physicians through The

Norwegian Medical Association, launch in 2016

E-learning

• Credits

• 8 modules

• 3 h self study

1. Intro and history

2. Doping substances

3. Administration, patterns of use

4. Side effects

5. Clinical examination

6. Signs and symptoms

7. Treatment

8. Legislation

Lectures «on demand»

• Jan-June 2015: 54 lectures for 4200 persons

• Schools, prisons, public officials, health personell

• Nationwide program

• Expenses divided between ADN and organizers

Personal stories from former users of doping and relatives of users

Introduction to doping as a health- and societal problem

Clean exercise, dietary supplements and anti-doping

Health consequences of AAS-use

Legislation, prevalence, trends and tendencies, production and distribution

User patterns, combinations, cycles, user groups, distribution

Level 1

Level 2

• Jan-June 2015: 54 lectures for 4200 persons

• Schools, prisons, public officials, health personell

• Nationwide program

• Expenses divided between ADN and organizers

Local mobilization against doping

• Program for counties (no: fylker)

• Project period of 2-3 years

• Local project coordinator from ADN (40 % position)

• Main target group: High school students and school

personnel

• ADN funds 50 % of total expenses

• Program for municipalities (no: kommuner)

• Project period of 2-3 years

• Local anti-doping project group

• The group plans and initiates appropriate actions

• Extensive use of resources and programs developed by

Antidoping Norway

Statistics 2014:

- 5 local projects

- 4 project coordinators

- 53 School visits

- 12200 students

- Network meetings for

physicians, nurses,

youth workers, police,

teachers, parents +

Fitness centre program

1. e-learning for staff

and members2. doping control

3. posters, flyers,

booklets etc. for staff

and members

thank you!

fredrik.lauritzen@antidoping.no