Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports

Performance-Enhancing Drugs are Taking over Sports
The article "Doping in Sports: Steroids and Supplements" says “The word dope comes from the Dutch word dop, which is an alcoholic beverage made from grape skins that the Zulu warriors would think it could enhance their fighting ability.” (World Almanac and Book of Facts’ n.pag.). Unfortunately, they were wrong because when there was a fight between the athletes, one drank it and the other one didn’t, it ended up that the athlete that did not drink it had more strength over the other. Obviously, now athletes take performance-enhancing drugs, that they take before a workout so it would help athletes to get bigger, faster, and stronger. Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs is not beneficial for athletes
For example, their are many long and short term effects that may change your life for the worse. According to William Mitchell, an orthopedic surgeon says, “Doping increases health risks when doses and amounts of hormonal use is not regulated and can lead to overdosing and catastrophic health risks including death” (qtd.in Performance-Enhancing Drugs are Dangerous n.pag.). If people knew what could happen to them, would they still put their life on the line to be bigger, stronger, and faster than everybody else. In addition, they have short term effects which are physical features, but the long terms out way the short terms with effects that can kill you. According to Steadman, “Anabolic steroids… have adverse side effects which range from acne, infertility, and impotence to hypertension… psychosis and cardiovascular disease” (n.pag.). Many of the different performance-enhancing drugs can have lines and lines of side effects for using, and it would not be fun to have one of the worst possible side effects happen. Even though many people know about what PEDs can do to them and the rest of their lives, they have a choice, a choice to live and not use PEDs, or to use them and suffer. According to “Performance-Enhancing- Drugs are Dangerous” it says, “But, it has been implicated in the death of at least 18 cyclists during alleged heavy use in
The athletes that get caught from using when they think they will not get caught. Also the new ideas of testing are helping to catch more and more athletes that may be using PEDs. Lastly the short and long term effects that happen when using can cause athletes to feel different in every way possible. When the Zulu warriors took a drink they would feel different, and now that can happen more and more in the future, because of the new ideas of Performance-Enhancing Drugs that are coming out that say that they are new and better than ever, but instead of being new and better they are just as bad for athletes. Athletes are adored every day from the records and fame that they receive, but all it comes down to for athletes is to be the best, and performance-enhancing drugs are not being the athletes best