Dr Suzie Hudson talks to Dr Esther Han and Dr Katinka van de Ven about the work they have done on Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs (PIEDs). They will discuss prevalence, reasons why people use non-prescribed PIEDs, how they can present in general practice and how to assess and manage a patient who is using PIEDs.

Resources:

• GP Guide to harm minimisation for patients using non-prescribed anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) and other performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs): https://www.snhn.net/steroid-harm-minimisation/

• Your Community Health – Steroid Education: https://www.yourch.org.au/our-services/alcohol-other-drug/steroid-education/

• Human Enhancement Drugs Network – Educational page: https://humanenhancementdrugs.com/education-and-training/

Dr Esther Han BMedSci MBBS DCH FRACGP (Subject matter expert)

Staff Specialist, Drug & Alcohol Services, Royal North Shore Hospital

Dr. Katinka van de Ven (Subject matter expert)

Senior Lecturer, Centre for Rural Criminology, UNE

Visiting Fellow, Drug Policy Modeling Program, SPRC, UNSW

Suzie Hudson (Facilitator)

Clinical Advisor, Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs

NSW Ministry of Health