PHRD-625: Performance Enchancing Drugs and Supplements

This course is an overview of concepts involved in sport and exercise medicine. It will focus on the nutritional and pharmacological elements involved in the practice of sports at diverse levels, such as personal fitness, weight-loss, and drug use and abuse at the highly competitive Olympic and professional sports. Students will discuss the integration of sports care into their practice as pharmacists and be encouraged to be proactive in preventing drug abuse and promoting proper use of nutritional supplements.Applying the concepts learned in pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics, students will also learn the flood levels of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs)deemed to be considered as adverse analytical findings, and various analytical and biotechnological methodologies of detecting and quantitating PEDs and biologics. Prerequisites: P-2 standing. Corequisite: PHRD-400 Biopharmaceutics & Pharmacokinetics. [ 2 credits ]