Addiction and dependency are areas where most people in a society are affected. Addiction can be defined as a process which occurs due to various life circumstances and situations. People struggle on a daily basis with headaches and various other health conditions. In order work and to carry out their daily tasks many of them resort to drugs to relieve the pain. The fact is though, few people understand that many drugs produced by regularly lose their effect. To counter this, users simply take

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... tronger medication. More and more people are becoming addicted to these drugs, however they are not being labeled as drug users. In fact, the use of these drugs is now almost seen as normality. For most people, the gap between normality and addiction is no longer recognizable. If a competitive athlete is banned for using performance enhancing substances, it is seen as doping. So perhaps doping can also be seen as these people bridging the small gap from normality to addiction. In sports, the process of addiction and dependency is called doping. This paper focus particularly on the addiction trap and doping case from both a psycholog-ical and sociological perspective. The aim is to determine whether the addiction trap case could be compared with the doping case, or whether there is a way out of the doping case; as this is the case with the addiction trap. By using various types of texts from the fields of psychology, sociology and exercise science, which are analyzed with a literature review, the approach to these issues is carried out. After closer inspection and evaluation of the different sources and texts, the author con-cludes that a comparison of the doping case is given to that of the addiction case due to psychological and sociological theories. The process of swallowing drugs is the same as swallowing anti-vitamins. The network behind this process plays an essential part for the athletes, as they put their trust into the network´s medical and sports science expertise. Doping does not happen from one day to the nex [...]