Legalize Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports The most commonly discussed issue in sports of the 21st century is the use of performance enhancing drugs by professional athletes. Over the past four years‚ it has been nearly impossible to turn on the television without hearing something about athletes and these drugs. From former National League MVP Third Baseman Ken Caminiti’s admission of steroid use in an issue of Sports Illustrated (Verducci‚ 2004) to 2006 Tour de France Champion Floyd Landis
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Performance enhancing drugs are substances used by athletes to improve their performance in sports‚ such as anabolic steroids‚ creatine‚ and testosterone. More and more athletes nowadays are using performance enhancing drugs due to higher competition‚ and even some high school student athletes! Not only is it unfair‚ but it destroys the user’s body. Performance enhancing drugs can be tempting to teens because they will be better and have an edge. Another factor could be that they want a better body
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the reader with many reasons as to why performance enhancing drugs should be allowed‚ many believe otherwise. In the article‚ “Performance-Enhancing Drugs: Where Should the Line be Drawn and by Whom‚” by one of the country’s most famous sport psychiatrists and well renowned writer Michael Lardon‚ he argues the use of performance enhancing drugs has become universal‚ thus causing a plethora of complex issues for the administrative officials of detail oriented sports. Lardon supports his main argument
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Performance enhancing drugs(PEDs) have been a very debatable topic over the years between teen athletes and professional athletes. Performance enhancing drugs are any substance taken by athletes to improve an athlete’s performance. PEDs can come in many shapes sizes‚ and colors‚ for example Pills are the most common way of consuming enhancement drugs‚ because it is easy to purchase‚ and also it it very easy to transport between dealers and buyers. The most common sport(s) that PEDs are associated
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Another reason why performance enhancing drugs should be illegal is because the unfair advantage. “Since such use is cheating‚ it is wrong and we should expect the disqualification of competitors who are caught doping”(Top 10 Pros and Cons - Drug Use in Sports - ProCon.org.) The use of drugs is an advantage and it is cheating and cheating is taken so seriously in professional sports. “Remember that athletes don’t take these drugs to level the playing field‚ they do it to get an advantage” Athletes
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Performance enhancing drugs can provide extra energy for athletes by increasing the chance to win competitions. Many peoples do not know that taking performance enhancing drugs is harmful. There are many concerns about the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport‚ however‚ strategies have been suggested which could reduce the use of these drugs in sport. First of all‚ taking performance enhancing drugs will cause severe harm to health. It is serious change
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use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport be legalized? By: Evan Underwood ENG2D1-02 Performance-enhancing drugs (PED‘s) have become a major issue in today’s sports world. Some people may think that PED’s in sport should be legalized because of the fact that they improve the level of sport and that the harm is worth the fame and glory. The negative factors of legalizing PED’s in sport outweigh the positive factors. Performance-enhancing drugs should not be legalized in sport because
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“Performance-Enhancing Drugs in the Workplace” Performance-enhancers are becoming more common in our everyday life‚ despite our efforts to ban them. This raises the questions‚ should we just accept these drugs and use them to our advantage? Or should we continue to resist these drugs and not take advantage of their performance-enhancing capabilities? When you start talking about organizations like the military‚ where Soldiers are ask to go beyond the normal physical and mental stress of a regular
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Athletes and Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Abstract: Since the beginning of sports competition‚ athletes have always looked for some kind of an edge amongst their competitors. They will do whatever it takes to be one of the elite and that includes pumping supplements into their bodies to make them bigger‚ stronger‚ and faster. Steroid use is probably one of the most common drug misuses in sports competition. Athletes found that with anabolic
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name. Which leads me to my point‚ if Performance Enhanced Drugs (PED’s) were to become legalized it would cause multiple problems not only on the field but even at home. Their legalization would raise multiple health concerns‚ cause unfairness in sporting events‚ and badly influence the children of today’s generation. Many PED’s pose a serious threat to the health of its users. Although the main reason for using these drugs are to improve physical performance‚ there are still many
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