The widespread availability of doping and its growing prevalence among fitness groups has contributed greatly to the realization of an emergent public health issue. Emanating from an ethnographic study in Sweden, the purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the processes involved in becoming and “unbecoming” a fitness doping user. The study employs a cultural and sociological perspective as its theoretical framework and discusses how the participating users gradually develop their knowledge about the drugs and how the process of becoming a user is negotiated in relation to ideas and ideals concerning health, gender, and individual freedom and Swedish law. Regarding exit processes, (re)entering into what is perceived to be an ordinary “normal” life was seldom a straightforward process. To understand the complex and sometimes complicated transition processes involved in becoming respectively unbecoming a fitness doper, the results highlight the limitations of using stage models for understanding exit process as heuristic tools. Furthermore, the article argue for the necessity to investigate the negotiations of fitness doping, taking place in the intersection between subcultural affiliations/spaces, doping legislation, and mainstream perceptions of living a “Normal” life. It is argued that processes of (un)becoming a fitness doper are anything but linear and thus need to be understood in relation to sociocultural belonging and ongoing negotiation of the individual’s sense of self.

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（联合国）成为健身狂者：在体育馆和健身场所中讨论非法药物使用的含义

兴奋剂的广泛使用及其在健身人群中的普及程度为实现紧急公共卫生问题做出了巨大贡献。这项研究源于瑞典的一项民族志研究，其目的是描述和分析参与成为和“不成为”健身兴奋剂使用者的过程。该研究采用文化和社会学的观点作为其理论框架，并讨论了参与的使用者如何逐步发展其对毒品的知识，以及如何就有关健康，性别和个人自由的观念和理想进行谈判成为使用者的过程。瑞典法律。关于退出过程，很少进入一个被认为是普通的“正常”生活的简单过程。为了理解分别变得不适合成为适应性掺杂剂所涉及的复杂且有时复杂的过渡过程，结果强调了使用阶段模型将出口过程理解为启发式工具的局限性。此外，该文章认为有必要调查适应性兴奋剂的谈判，这种谈判发生在亚文化背景/空间，兴奋剂立法和主流的“正常”生活观念之间的交汇处。有人认为，（不）成为适婚者的过程不是线性的，因此需要与社会文化归属感和对个体自我意识的持续谈判有关。结果突出了使用阶段模型将退出过程理解为启发式工具的局限性。此外，该文章认为有必要调查适应性兴奋剂的谈判，这种谈判发生在亚文化背景/空间，兴奋剂立法和主流的“正常”生活观念之间的交汇处。有人认为，（不）成为适婚者的过程不是线性的，因此需要与社会文化归属感和对个体自我意识的持续谈判有关。结果突出了使用阶段模型将退出过程理解为启发式工具的局限性。此外，该文章认为有必要调查适应性兴奋剂的谈判，这种谈判发生在亚文化背景/空间，兴奋剂立法和主流的“正常”生活观念之间的交汇处。有人认为，（不）成为适婚者的过程不是线性的，因此需要与社会文化归属感和对个体自我意识的持续谈判有关。