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10855373

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-7-19
pubmed:abstractText
Early February 1999, the French Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports (Youth and Sports Ministry) sponsored three different studies, aiming to prevent harmful behavior in the area of sport practices among youth. Two years earlier, our health care team working with drug users published reports on the meaningfulness of intensive sports activities in the history of our patients. The present work was performed to highlight the midterm results of one of these studies, to better understand and quantify the importance of physical training in the history of a group of outpatients seen for addictive disorders and comorbid pathologies. For 20 consecutive weeks, 3,040 self-administered questionnaires were available for persons consulting 20 health centers, 2 self-help groups and a general practitioner network working in the field of alcohol or heroine abuse. One thousand one hundred and eleven questionnaires were filled out (36.1%) and returned by mail for complete analysis: 86% of the answering persons had practiced at least one sports activity or participated in physical training, 10.5% had participated in a national or international level competition, and 10.6% reported stress fractures. In the intensive sports group, 36% had used illicit drugs intravenously and 16.4% said they had already used doping substances. Only 28.4% said they experienced dependence during their period of intensive sports activities compared with 15.2% before this time, and a majority (56.4%) thereafter. Intensive sports or physical training should not be seen as a protective factor nor as a way of improving addictive behaviors. More studies are needed to evaluate individual vulnerability factors and specific harm of overtraining and to determine the exact periods when men and women participating in sports activities are likely to abuse drugs, especially at the end of their career.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0003-410X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
151 Suppl A
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
A18-26
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
[Physical and sports activities in the history of patients treated for addictions. Report 1999 of the study sponsored by the Ministry of Youth and Sports (France)].
pubmed:affiliation
Centre Monte-Cristo, Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Laennec, Paris.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract