Performance-enhancing Drugs – Sophie Fawkner Performance-enhancing drugs are chemically made substances that improve or alter the performance of any consumer. In sport‚ anabolic steroids are the most commonly abused drug. Performance-enhancing drugs are not always beneficial‚ as they come at a cost‚ in more ways than one‚ and there are many potential risks. Athletes‚ bodybuilders‚ students or military personnel may use the drugs. They are not illegal‚ but they are also not permitted while taking
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Effects of Performance Enhancing Drugs on Athletes The risks of taking performance -enhancing drugs to improve an athletes’ performance outweighs the benefits. Along with the fact that all performance-enhancing drugs are illegal to use in sports‚ there are also serious side effects and addiction risks to the drugs. Athletes may choose from a variety of drugs and each may achieve different benefits. However‚ most of the time‚ athletes are uneducated in their decision to take the drugs‚ which can
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Many people think legalizing performance enhancing drugs will make professional sports and recreational sports better. They think sports as a whole will be brought to the next level of entertainment. Despite this belief‚ sports can only be brought down from the use of these drugs; if an athlete has no skill or natural ability these drugs will not enhance anything‚ only hurt the user. The first reason that performance enhancing drugs should not be legal for professional and recreational use is medical
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Research Paper Performance Enhancing Drugs Maximilian H. Szeto Vancouver Island University November 26‚ 2014 Instructor: Richard Arnold Engl 125: Research Paper Performance Enhancing Drugs These days‚ it seems like performance enhancing drugs are the norm in the professional sports worlds. Whether it is football or basketball players‚ many professional athletes are getting exposed to PEDs. As a result‚ a lot of athletes are consuming performance enhancing drugs because
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Reed Professor Hilton-Ross Performance-Enhancing Drugs: New level of excitement or quick death? We regularly hear of professional athletes being accused of “doping‚” or use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Many do this to be the very best at what they do. This is lucrative for not only the player‚ but also for the franchises that bring in the crowds. The question that arises is‚ if these drugs should be the new frontier of sports‚ or if we should heavily screen the players to prevent
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athletes use performance enhancing drugs‚ it gives them an unfair advantage‚ and it ruins the spirit of competition. Imagine the athlete that has been dreaming of playing collegiately or even advancing so far as to go to the Olympics and win a medal. This athlete may do whatever it takes to achieve their childhood dreams. “Most serious athletes will tell you that the competitive drive to win can be fierce”(Mayo Clinic Staff 1) and because of that “the use of performance-enhancing drugs has become
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Against Performance Enhancing Drugs Performance enhancing drugs should be illegal in professional sports. Players found using these drugs should be banned from playing professional sports. The reasons why are because using these drugs is cheating‚ unfair to other players‚ and unfair to fans. Using performance enhancing drugs is cheating in sports. Players are boosting their performance instead of using their own abilities. The point of playing a sport is to see which team or person is the
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The athletes may have gotten more talented‚ but the doctors and performance enhancing drugs have also become more advanced as the years passed as well. Performance enhancing drugs have impacted sports in a way that nobody seems to realize‚ and they will continue to do that for the many years to come in the future years to come. Performance enhancing drugs‚ or “PED’s” are any substance taken by an athlete to improve his/her performance and gain an athletic edge on their opponents and teammates. The
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players have died from the use of performance enhancing drugs (PED) (Almanac 3). Not only are PEDs dangerous‚ using PEDS would make it unfair for players who choose to stay clean. Steroids are not allowed in any other sport and they are cheating. Cheating is not allowed in anything else so why would they be allowed now? Even though baseball would be more interesting because there would be more home runs‚ steroids should not be allowed to be used in the MLB nor any other sport because players would get hurt
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Should athletes use performance enhancing drugs ? Man has been trying to improve themselves physically through training and eating healthy for years but the discovery of performance enhancing drugs changed the game for everyone. One after another new ways of improving an athlete’s straight and injuries with minimal training and maximal improvement. Some athletes and trainers looked to drugs to give them the upper hand on their opposition. Some people look at using drugs to build bigger and better
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