Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Nicole Ireland
Publication Date: August 27, 2025 - 16:54
Performance-enhancing substances can be harmful to adolescents, survey of pediatricians says
August 27, 2025
Researchers say pediatricians, family doctors and parents need to learn more about what kind of performance-enhancing substances kids are using when they work out or play sports.
Seventeen per cent of more than 800 Canadian pediatric specialists surveyed said they saw adolescents who needed medical attention due to performance-enhancing products, including both legal and illegal substances, during the previous year.
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