Doping and doping practices in sport

Abstract

This document was translated into English from the original French version of the collective expert report published in April 2026.1 It presents the summary and recommendations of the work of a group of experts, brought together by the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) as part of the collective expert review procedure, in response to a request from the Ministry of Sports regarding doping and doping practices in sports. This work is primarily based on data from the international scientific literature available as of the end of December 2024. More than 3,800 documents were compiled through the interrogation of different bibliographic databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, SocINDEX, etc.). The work was coordinated by the Collective Expert Reports Unit of Inserm, which is part of its Public Health Thematic Institute.