Dr Timothy Piatkowski
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Health Services Research
Publications
Journal Articles
Piatkowski, Timothy, Akrigg, Kim, Cox, Luke, Bradshaw, Adam and Vigorous, Steve (2025). Anything but androgens: How image and performance enhancing drug consumers manage body composition and health through off-label use of medicines. Performance Enhancement and Health, 13 (2) 100329, 100329. doi: 10.1016/j.peh.2025.100329
Piatkowski, Timothy, Kill, Emma and Olsen, Anna (2025). It is the way you treat yourself, but also the way you allow other people to start treating you as well: perceptions of overdose risk among women who inject drug. Drugs, Habits and Social Policy, 26 (2), 73-84. doi: 10.1108/dhs-01-2025-0002
Piatkowski, Timothy, Barratt, Monica J., Coomber, Ross, Gibbs, Nick, Neumann, David L. and Dunn, Matthew (2025). Tracing the impact of media, cultural narratives, and social perceptions on Australia's anabolic-androgenic steroid communities. Contemporary Drug Problems. doi: 10.1177/00914509251334958
Piatkowski, Timothy, Volpe, Isabelle, Brien, Rita, Coomber, Ross, Barratt, Monica, Kill, Emma, Davey, Geoff, Francis, Cameron, Cresswell, Sarah, White, Alan, Harding, Madeline, Blakey, Karen, Reeve, Steph, Walters, Brooke, Ferris, Jason and Puljević, Cheneal (2025). Development, dissemination and community response towards the first community notice regarding misrepresented illicit anabolic‐androgenic steroids in circulation in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44 (3), 735-741. doi: 10.1111/dar.14015
Davies, Emma L., Perman‐Howe, Parvati, Seddon, Jennifer, Piatkowski, Timothy, Puljevic, Cheneal, Barratt, Monica J., Winstock, Adam R. and Ferris, Jason A. (2025). Barriers to the use of no and low alcohol products in high‐risk drinkers. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44 (3), 842-857. doi: 10.1111/dar.14006
Piatkowski, Timothy, Coomber, Ross, Francis, Cameron, Kill, Emma, Davey, Geoff, Cresswell, Sarah, White, Alan, Harding, Madeline, Blakey, Karen, Reeve, Steph, Walters, Brooke, Puljevic, Cheneal, Ferris, Jason and Barratt, Monica (2025). The world's first anabolic‐androgenic steroid testing trial: A two‐phase pilot combining chemical analysis, results dissemination and community feedback. Addiction, 120 (7), 1366-1377. doi: 10.1111/add.70009
Piatkowski, Timothy, Ayurzana, Lkhagvadulam, King, Michelle, Hattingh, Laetitia and Mcmillan, Sara (2025). Community pharmacy's role in dispensing androgens and supporting harm reduction amid current policy dilemmas. Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy, 20 (1) 2, 2. doi: 10.1186/s13011-025-00636-y
Lamb, Harry, Dunn, Matthew, Havnes, Ingrid Amalia and Piatkowski, Timothy (2025). “I go back to it every f**king time”: the normalization of problematic Trenbolone use in online anabolic-androgenic steroid communities. Addiction Research and Theory, 33 (2), 81-87. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2024.2352092
Piatkowski, Timothy, Gibbs, Nick, Neumann, David and Dunn, Matthew (2025). Consuming ‘God Juice’: Using ‘ethnopharmacological‐connoisseurship’ to situate trenbolone use and knowledge among image and performance enhancing drug communities. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44 (1), 298-309. doi: 10.1111/dar.13965
Gústafsson, Baldur Jón, Puljević, Cheneal, Davies, Emma L, Barratt, Monica J., Ferris, Jason, Winstock, Adam and Piatkowski, Timothy (2025). Sweating for sobriety: exploring the relationship between exercise engagement and substance use disorders. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 57 (2), 223-233. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2024.2311143
Piatkowski, Timothy, Clarke, Cheya, Puljević, Cheneal and Caudwell, Kim M. (2025). ‘Vaping is a break from all of that’: exploring attitudes, harm perceptions, cessation barriers and social dynamics among people who vape. Health Education Journal, 84 (1), 45-57. doi: 10.1177/00178969241293577
Negrine, Jordan J., Puljević, Cheneal, Ferris, Jason, Liknaitzky, Paul, Perlman, Christopher and Piatkowski, Timothy (2025). Australian psychologists' attitudes towards psychedelic‐assisted therapy and training following a world‐first drug down‐scheduling. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44 (1), 336-346. doi: 10.1111/dar.13973
Healey, Gene, Neumann, David, Cornell, Samuel and Piatkowski, Timothy (2025). 'Martial arts crossed over into the rest of my life': a qualitative exploration of Australian practitioners' experiences of martial arts and combat sports on wellbeing. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 35 (1) e70035. doi: 10.1002/casp.70035
Wardle, Felicity, Piatkowski, Timothy, Clifford, Sarah, Peacock, Amy, Dietze, Paul, Lim, Megan, Douglass, Caitlin, Hill, Penny, Moore, Samuel, Miller, Mia, Brett, Jonathan and Wright, Cassandra J. C. (2025). Safe beats down under: investigating the support of drug checking at a regional festival in the Northern Territory, Australia. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 32 (3), 211-219. doi: 10.1080/09687637.2024.2330938
Gill, Matthew J., Piatkowski, Timothy and Dunn, Matthew (2025). A netnographic study of anabolic‐androgenic steroid initiation videos on YouTube. Drug and Alcohol Review, 44 (1), 310-323. doi: 10.1111/dar.13969
Piatkowski, Timothy, Turnock, Luke, Gibbs, Nick and Duff, Cameron (2024). The IPEDs assemblage: tracing the entanglements of biomedicine, technology, enhancement and anti-doping policies in sport and society. Health. doi: 10.1177/13634593241306569
Piatkowski, Timothy, de Andrade, Dominique, Kill, Emma, Hawgood, Jacinta and Kõlves, Kairi (2024). It’s risky out where we are: exploring intersectional factors of intentional overdose among people who use drugs in regional Queensland, Australia. Archives of Suicide Research. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2024.2435549
Piatkowski, Timothy, Whiteside, Bianca, Robertson, Jonathan, Henning, April, Lau, Eric H. Y. and Dunn, Matthew (2024). What is the prevalence of anabolic‐androgenic steroid use among women? A systematic review. Addiction, 119 (12), 2088-2100. doi: 10.1111/add.16643
Gibbs, Nick, Piatkowski, Timothy and Turnock, Luke (2024). Down the greasy slope: the fatal contradictions of anti-doping. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. doi: 10.1080/17511321.2024.2432949
Piatkowski, Timothy and Cox, Luke Thomas Joseph (2024). ‘Insulin is super dangerous if you don't know what you're doing’: Situating the risks of insulin within the image and performance enhancing drug community. Drug and Alcohol Review, 43 (7), 1976-1984. doi: 10.1111/dar.13857
Piatkowski, Timothy, Havnes, Ingrid Amalia, Kill, Emma and Barratt, Monica J. (2024). “The compounds for females are really commonly faked!”: Women's challenges in anabolic steroid acquisition and the place of drug checking interventions. Drug and Alcohol Review, 43 (7), 1962-1966. doi: 10.1111/dar.13931
Dunn, Matthew, Dawe, Joshua, Eu, Beng, Lee, Kevin, Piatkowski, Timothy and Stoové, Mark (2024). The health effects of non‐prescribed anabolic–androgenic steroid use: Findings from The Performance and image‐enhancing drugs UseRS' Health (PUSH) audit. Drug and Alcohol Review, 43 (7), 1967-1975. doi: 10.1111/dar.13899
Piatkowski, Timothy, Seear, Kate, Reeve, Steph and Kill, Emma (2024). How do relational practices co-constitute care for people who use drugs? The social and political dimensions of peer-led harm reduction. International Journal of Drug Policy, 133 104614, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104614
Piatkowski, Timothy, Moran, James, Canty, Ruth and Wright, Cassandra J. C. (2024). ‘I mean, I wouldn't say I was sober’: Exploring the psychosocial impact of e‐scooter injuries and aligning a collaborative public health response. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 35 (4), 1128-1135. doi: 10.1002/hpja.845
Cox, Luke Thomas Joseph and Piatkowski, Timothy (2024). Enhancing autonomy through the ‘Enhanced Games’. Performance Enhancement and Health, 12 (4) 100296, 1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.peh.2024.100296
Piatkowski, Timothy and Kill, Emma (2024). A collaborative approach to understanding the intersections of practice and policy for peers in the alcohol and other drugs sector. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21 (9) 1152, 1-11. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21091152
Piatkowski, Timothy, Cox, Luke and Collins, Rick (2024). The ethics of enhancement among image and performance enhancing drug coaches. Health Sociology Review. doi: 10.1080/14461242.2024.2388528
Walker, Claire, Piatkowski, Timothy, Ferris, Jason, Davies, Emma, Barratt, Monica, Winstock, Adam and Puljević, Cheneal (2024). From chaos to kaleidoscope: exploring factors in psychedelic self-treatment for mental health conditions. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 38 (8), 749-760. doi: 10.1177/02698811241265762
Davidson, Lily, Piatkowski, Timothy, Pocuca, Nina and Hides, Leanne (2024). Modelling the relationship between environmental and social cognitive determinants of risky drinking among emerging adults. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 22 (4), 2166-2185. doi: 10.1007/s11469-022-00978-9
Piatkowski, Timothy, Patel, Maharshi, Puljević, Cheneal, Davies, Emma L., Barratt, Monica J., Winstock, Adam R. and Ferris, Jason A. (2024). Why, Where, and with Whom? Understanding the set and setting influencing the consumption of NoLo beverages. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/09687637.2024.2376086
Cox, Luke, Piatkowski, Timothy and McVeigh, Jim (2024). “I would never go to the doctor and speak about steroids”: Anabolic androgenic steroids, stigma and harm. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1-13. doi: 10.1080/09687637.2024.2373056
Piatkowski, Timothy, Vigorous, Steve, Cox, Luke and McVeigh, James (2024). “You Could Try This Compound, but it Might Send You nuts”: how steroid suppliers perceive the underground market and their ‘hybrid’ role within it. Deviant Behavior. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2024.2375014
Piatkowski, Timothy, Sabrus, Domanik and Keane, Carol (2024). The relationship between masculinity and help-seeking among Australian men living in non-urban areas. The Journal of Men's Studies, 32 (2), 199-218. doi: 10.1177/10608265231207997
Piatkowski, Timothy, Whiteside, Bianca, Robertson, Jonathan, Lamon, Severine and Dunn, Matthew (2024). Performance and image enhancing drug use among Australian women: the role of interpersonal relationships in facilitating use. Contemporary Drug Problems, 51 (2), 142-159. doi: 10.1177/00914509241256002
Piatkowski, Timothy, Cox, Luke, Gibbs, Nick, Turnock, Luke and Dunn, Matthew (2024). ‘The general concept is a safer use approach’: how image and performance enhancing drug coaches negotiate safety through community care. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 1-9. doi: 10.1080/09687637.2024.2352442
Piatkowski, Timothy and Dunn, Matthew (2024). Navigating risks and reducing harm: a gendered analysis of anabolic–androgenic steroid users within the risk environment framework. Contemporary Drug Problems, 51 (2), 111-128. doi: 10.1177/00914509241249292
Davies, Emma L., Piatkowski, Timothy, Frankovitch, Alex, Puljević, Cheneal, Barratt, Monica J., Ferris, Jason A. and Winstock, Adam R. (2024). Exploring experiences of drink and needle spiking incidents among global drug survey respondents from 22 countries. Journal of Drug Issues. doi: 10.1177/00220426241248613
Devilly, Grant J., Wilkinson, Petra, Allen, Corey and Piatkowski, Timothy (2024). Unmasking distorted reflections: exploring body image, alcohol, and drug use in nighttime entertainment districts. Substance Use and Misuse, 59 (9), 1280-1292. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2024.2320377
Puljević, Cheneal, Tscharke, Benjamin, Wessel, Ellen Leslie, Francis, Cameron, Verhagen, Rory, O'Brien, Jake W., Bade, Richard, Nadarajan, Dhayaalini, Measham, Fiona, Stowe, M.J., Piatkowski, Timothy, Ferris, Jason, Page, Robert, Hiley, Sarah, Eassey, Christopher, McKinnon, Ginny, Sinclair, Genevieve, Blatchford, Emily, Engel, Liam, Norvill, Alice and Barratt, Monica J. (2024). Characterising differences between self-reported and wastewater-identified drug use at two consecutive years of an Australian music festival. Science of The Total Environment, 921 170934, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170934
Piatkowski, Timothy, Gibbs, Nick and Dunn, Matthew (2024). Beyond the law: exploring the impact of criminalising anabolic–androgenic steroid use on help-seeking and health outcomes in Australia. Journal of Criminology, 57 (1), 62-82. doi: 10.1177/26338076231209044
Piatkowski, Timothy, Havnes, Ingrid Amalia, Kill, Emma and Ven, Katinka van de (2024). Could testosterone be the new methadone? New ways for approaching anabolic-androgenic steroid dependence. Performance Enhancement and Health, 12 (1) 100275. doi: 10.1016/j.peh.2024.100275
Reynolds, Ashlee, Roche, Steven and Piatkowski, Timothy (2024). Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: bridging gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement. Qualitative Social Work, 23 (1), 108-125. doi: 10.1177/14733250231202045
Piatkowski, Timothy M., Neumann, David L., Keane, Carol and Dunn, Matthew (2024). “More drugs means more stress on my body”: exploring enhancement and health among elite strength athletes who use performance and image enhancing drugs. Addiction Research and Theory, 32 (5), 333-338. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2023.2271839
Piatkowski, Timothy, Gibbs, Nick and Dunn, Matthew (2024). “I Feel Like I’m Walking the Line; One Side It’s Manageable, the Other Side It’s F**king prison”: exploring the dual nature of user-manufacturers of image and performance enhancing drugs. Deviant Behavior, 45 (7), 929-946. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2250896
Turnock, Luke, Gibbs, Nick, Cox, Luke and Piatkowski, Timothy (2023). Big business: the private sector market for image and performance enhancing drug harm reduction in the UK. International Journal of Drug Policy, 122 104254, 104254. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104254
Dunn, Matthew, Piatkowski, Timothy M., Robertson, Jonathan and Lamon, Severine (2023). Is the use of performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs) in women an issue of concern? The findings from a stakeholder consultation. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 26 (11), 574-579. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2023.08.179
Piatkowski, Timothy, Puljevic, Cheneal, Francis, Cameron, Ferris, Jason and Dunn, Matthew (2023). “They sent it away for testing and it was all bunk”: Exploring perspectives on drug checking among steroid consumers in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Drug Policy, 119 104139, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104139
Piatkowski, Timothy M., Neumann, David L. and Dunn, Matthew (2023). ‘My mind pretty much went to mush’: a qualitative exploration of trenbolone in the performance and image enhancing drug community. Drug and Alcohol Review, 42 (6), 1566-1576. doi: 10.1111/dar.13656
Piatkowski, Timothy, Robertson, Jonathan and Dunn, Matthew (2023). Polysubstance use practices among women using anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS). Performance Enhancement and Health, 11 (2) 100248, 100248. doi: 10.1016/j.peh.2023.100248
Dunn, Matthew, Piatkowski, Timothy, Whiteside, Bianca and Eu, Beng (2023). Exploring the experiences of general practitioners working with patients who use performance and image enhancing drugs. Performance Enhancement and Health, 11 (2) 100247, 100247. doi: 10.1016/j.peh.2023.100247
Kroon, Rianca, Neumann, David L., Piatkowski, Timothy M. and Moffitt, Robyn L. (2023). How the physical appearance of companions affects females with high or low social physique anxiety: a virtual reality exercise study. Virtual Reality, 27 (2), 541-551. doi: 10.1007/s10055-022-00676-w
Piatkowski, Tim, Robertson, Jonathan, Lamon, Severine and Dunn, Matthew (2023). Gendered perspectives on women’s anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) usage practices. Harm Reduction Journal, 20 (1) 56. doi: 10.1186/s12954-023-00786-x
Gibbs, Nicholas and Piatkowski, Timothy (2023). The Liver King lie: misrepresentation, justification, and public health implications. International Journal of Drug Policy, 114 103979, 103979. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.103979
Moran, James, Buck, Andrew, Williams, Jodie, Piatkowski, Timothy and Unnikrishnan, Renu (2023). Impact on the health service in the Top End, Northern Territory following the introduction of an electric scooter sharing service. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 35 (2), 194-199. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.14090
Neumann, David L., Piatkowski, Timothy M., Moffitt, Robyn L. and Minahan, Clare L. (2023). The mental health of elite athletes in developing nations of the greater Oceania region. Australian Psychologist, 58 (2), 94-104. doi: 10.1080/00050067.2022.2130027
Piatkowski, Tim and Dunn, Matthew (2022). Coaching the drug coach: an invited commentary in response to Gibbs et al. anabolics coaching: Emic harm reduction or a public health concern?. Performance Enhancement and Health, 10 (3) 100229, 100229-3. doi: 10.1016/j.peh.2022.100229
Neumann, David L., Olive, Ashleigh, Moffitt, Robyn L. and Piatkowski, Tim (2022). Switching attentional focus across internal and external cues improves performance in a rowing task in novices. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 61 102195, 102195-61. doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102195
Dunn, Matthew and Piatkowski, Timothy (2021). Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on performance and image enhancing drug use. Harm Reduction Journal, 18 (1) 124, 1-8. doi: 10.1186/s12954-021-00571-8
Shimko, Katja M., Piatkowski, Timothy, Thomas, Kevin V., Speers, Naomi, Brooker, Lance, Tscharke, Ben J. and O’Brien, Jake W. (2021). Performance- and image-enhancing drug use in the community: use prevalence, user demographics and the potential role of wastewater-based epidemiology. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 419 126340, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126340
Piatkowski, Timothy M, Dunn, Matthew, White, Katherine M, Hides, Leanne M and Obst, Patricia L (2021). Exploring the harms arising from polysubstance use among performance and image enhancing drug users among young Australian men. Performance Enhancement and Health, 9 (3-4) 100197, 100197. doi: 10.1016/j.peh.2021.100197
Piatkowski, Timothy M., White, Katherine M., Hides, Leanne M. and Obst, Patricia L. (2020). Australia's Adonis: understanding what motivates young men's lifestyle choices for enhancing their appearance. Australian Psychologist, 55 (2) ap.12451, 156-168. doi: 10.1111/ap.12451
Tighe, Boden, Dunn, Matthew, McKay, Fiona H. and Piatkowski, Timothy (2017). Information sought, information shared: Exploring performance and image enhancing drug user-facilitated harm reduction information in online forums. Harm Reduction Journal, 14 (1) 48. doi: 10.1186/s12954-017-0176-8
Opar, David A., Piatkowski, Timothy, Williams, Morgan D. and Shield, Anthony J. (2013). A novel device using the nordic hamstring exercise to assess eccentric knee flexor strength: A reliability and retrospective injury study. Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, 43 (9), 636-640. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2013.4837