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Thursday, September 1, 2022
12:00 AM - 11:00 PM
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Dr Timothy Piatkowski
Lecturer
Charles Darwin University

The unique practices of females using performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs)

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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

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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.
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