Drug Abuse In Professional Sports

The world of sports is vast and fun for the whole family. Sports provides entertainment for everyone, from little Johnny who plays baseball, to weird uncle Phil who is an arm chair quarterback. Few realize that sports help people in ways they can't imagine. From Pakistan to the USA, people use sports to do things that may be more difficult to do in any other way. Building the self-esteem of both children and adults along with the building of social skills, bonding, making friends and other lifelong skills learned in all sports. Sports also provide a chance for children that are fatherless, motherless or both to find help healing and an opportunity for a mentor. For the purpose of research analisis, a mentor found through sports is a “sports
Down sides to professional sports may not be apparent at first. That's their life choice and in some cases it's there lifes dream. But if you dig deeper you'll find that professional and college athletes often have a dark side that not everyone knows about. In a study and academic paper conducted by Claudia L. Reardon and Shane Creado called “Drug Abuse in Athletes” they found that 93% of college and professional athletes used drugs within the past year. Is this bad? Yes. Does it need to be stopped. Yes. But this isn't even close to the big picture of the problem. What if a little child found out that his favorite college or professional athlete used performance enhancing drugs? He or she might think that since their hero uses drugs that it is acceptable for them to use them, as well. It doesn't stop there either the same scenario goes for legal drugs that are just as harmful to use or be around. Some of the minor symptoms may be vomiting, ache, slurred speach, paranoia, jitters and many many more. These side effects prove that drug usage, great and small, has the potential to be a horrible effect on someone's life through sports. Sports provides comfort for some people but for others it's a cornucopia of bad decisions waiting to happen; drugs, alcohol and other poor decisions for young athletes to
For instance, what if a child is running after the ball in soccer and he or she collides with another child or said child sprains their ankle trying to score a goal. This is one of the drawbacks to sports you should consider, personal injury. "Any sport can produce an overuse injury," explained Dr. Cynthia LaBella, medical director of the Institute for Sports Medicine at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Another problem with today's kids is a mental one. Sportsmen like conduct is getting to be a bigger problem, or rather the lack of sportsmanship. Sean Dailey listed some ways sportsmanship affects growth and decisions of lives. “Treat everyone with respect, Always try their best, Wear uniforms properly (dress appropriately), Be punctual” these are things that could be effected by sportsmanship and later on in life affect relationships and attitudes or actions towards