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Sport as a Drug and Drugs in Sport

Some Exploratory Comments

University of Leicester, UK

Ivan Waddington

University of Leicester, UK, iw11{at}le.ac.uk

This article seeks, first, to suggest that relations between `drug users' and members of the wider society have many of the features of an `established-outsider' figuration as defined by Elias; second, to examine aspects of the complex interrelationships between sport and the consumption of alcohol. In this regard, reference is made to the long-standing Epicurean/Dionysian and Stoical/Puritanical conceptions of sport and to the consumption of alcohol in leisure-gemeinschaften. Third, the article seeks to examine some aspects of the increasing use of `sport in the community' schemes as a means of combating the use of drugs by young people and, fourth, to look at some of the ways in which participation in sport might itself be considered, in a loose sense, as a kind of `drug'.

Key Words: alcohol • drugs • Elias • established-outsider relations

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 38, No. 3, 351-368 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/10126902030383006


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