Special Populations
Thursday, September 1, 2022 |
12:00 AM - 11:00 PM |
Digital Posters |
Speaker
Dr Timothy Piatkowski
Lecturer
Charles Darwin University
The unique practices of females using performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs)
Biography
Tim Piatkowski is a lecturer at Charles Darwin University in the College of Health and Human Sciences. His research fits broadly in the space of addiction and men's health, with a particular focus on steroids, polysubstance use, and harm reduction.
Ms Hannah Schuurs
Phd Scholar
Uq School Of Psychology
A systematic review investigating the psychosocial factors influencing initiation, use, and subjective experience of performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) in female weight-training populations
Biography
Ms Schuurs is a PhD scholar with UQ School of Psychology. She has a special interest in the use and misuse of performance and-image enhancing drugs and her doctorate focusses on womens' use of these substances. She has also worked as an addictions counsellor for both government and non-government organisations.