Announcements
The International Symposium on
Doping as a public health issue
organized by the Arne Ljungqvist Anti-Doping Foundation and staged at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
Date: September 21 – 22, 2012
Download PDF: PALJF: Third Announcement and Preliminary Program
Download PDF: PALJF: Second Announcement
Download PDF: PALJF: First Announcement
Welcome to Stockholm!
Many international conferences on Doping in Sport have been organized over the last several decades. However, the use of doping substances has spread way beyond the athletic population to people of different ages, not the least to young people without any athletic ambitions.
Some studies have linked the use of doping substances, in particular androgenic-anabolic steroids, to violent crimes. Other studies from different parts of the world have shown a worrying use of such drugs in high school students. Consequently, the use of doping substances has been increasingly recognized as a public health issue and a number of countries have introduced legislation against doping.
The intention with the announced symposium is to bring experts and interested parties together in order (i) to establish the present situation of the use of doping substances in society, (ii) evaluate its impact on public health, and (iii) discuss strategies to combat the use of doping substances in society.
At the reception on May 9th, 2011 in Waterfront Congress Centre and with Stockholm City Hall as the backdrop. From left Professor Arne Ljungqvist, Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, President of the Karolinska Institutet, Karin Mattsson Weijber, President of the Swedish Sports Confederation, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Ministry of Culture, Pia Zätterström, President of the Swedish Sports Education Council and Stefan Lindeberg, President of the Swedish Olympic Committee.
Professor Arne Ljungqvist Anti-Doping Foundation
The Professor Arne Ljungqvist Anti-Doping Foundation was established in 2011 on the basis of gifts to Prof. Ljungqvist on his 80th birthday from individuals, organizations and institutions. In particular, the Swedish Ministry of Culture, the Karolinska institutet, the Swedish Sports Confederation, the Swedish Sports Education Council and the Swedish Olympic Committee made a joint donation to be used for the organization of an Anti-Doping Symposium in Professor Arne Ljungqvist's name during the year 2012.
It is our hope that the symposium will receive your attention and that you place the date 21-22 September 2012 in your calendars.
Further information about the program, application procedures etc. will be circulated in due course.
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Arne Ljungqvist, Professor
Chairman of the Board
Carl Johan Sundberg, M.D., Ph.D., Karolinska institutet
Member of the Board
Staffan Sahlström
Member of the Board
Håkan Ljungqvist
Member of the Board
