For health professionals:

• • Endocrine Society of Australia (ESA) (2013) has published a Position Statement: Use and Misuse of Androgens which gives an overview of androgen deficiency and when hormone replacement therapy is justified.
  • The Diagnostic Criteria for Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Dependence to assess for dependence.
  • Exchange Supplies’ Pocket guide to Steroids is a resource for patients to take home.
  • Human Enhancement Drugs Information Pamphlet gives an overview of the different types of enhancement drugs used.
  • Sports Integrity Australia provides information to medical professionals who treat professional athletes.
  • Exchange Supplies’ Guide to steroids + other drugs used to enhance performance and image gives easy access to factual information on building muscle through diet and training, the drugs that are used to assist, how they work, how they are taken, the risks and dangers and what we know about reducing the risks.
  • Exchange Supplies’ pamphlet on side effects and risks, and injecting practices and poster on injecting.
  • IPEDInfo has developed a video on injecting practices and reducing injecting related harms which is freely available for patients.
  • The Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies’ (NADA) Language Matters resource provides health professionals with best-practice guidelines on how to use language to empower clients and reinforce a person-centred approach.
  • The National Drug Strategy 2017-2026 is a national framework for building safe, healthy and resilient Australian communities through preventing and minimising alcohol, tobacco and other drug related health, social and economic harms among individuals, families and communities.

For patients:

• • Exchange Supplies’ Pocket guide to Steroids is a resource for patients to take home.
  • Exchange Supplies’ resource on side effects and risks, and injecting practices.
  • Exchange Supplies’ Guide to steroids + other drugs used to enhance performance and image gives easy access to factual information on building muscle through diet and training, the drugs that are used to assist, how they work, how they are taken, the risks and dangers and what we know about reducing the risks.
  • IPEDInfo has developed a video on injecting practices and reducing injecting related harms which is freely available for patients.
  • Please see the “Education & Training” page on the Human Enhancement Drugs Network website which provides a range of educational resources in relation to AAS and other PIEDs.