Ryan Kuhn Debate Paper Pro-Steroids in Sports One of the most hyped up and perhaps exaggerated arguments in society today is the use of steroids and whether or not it should be allowed in professional sports. There has been much speculation as to what exactly is‚”cheating” and whether or not the use of steroids fits that description. We live in a society that has an oddly schizophrenic relationship with pharmaceuticals and medical technology that in all other cases we are
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Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Athletes for centuries have been using enhancement drugs to achieve greatness(Burdick‚2003) A Sixty Minutes interview of Jose Conseco conducted by Mike Wallace clearly shows how widespread and popular these drugs are. Athletes who are on them deny there use fully and denounce the drugs(Newsday.com‚2005) Performance enhancing drugs are necessary in order to make the playing field fair and even. In order to to understand why enhancement drugs
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In his article “cheating and CHEATING‚” Joe Posnanski claims that baseball game is never innocent and it is always beautiful. When come to discussing about baseball game‚ baseball game was stuffed with cheating‚ racism‚ alcoholism and small-mindedness. Even though amphetamines and steroid become available to players at different period of baseball history‚ it actually has no difference between injecting steroid and taking amphetamines. Joe Posnanski believes that
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part of playing a sport is being healthy. However‚ many athletes choose to use an unhealthy drug‚ called Anabolic Steroids. Anabolic Steroids increase testosterone production in the body and can lead to increased muscle mass and more masculine physical characteristics. Most athletes use them knowing that the drug could terminate their career and cause them bodily harm. Good coaches would warn their players about the use of performance enhancing drugs. Bans on illegal drugs in sports are the rules of
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taking them‚ too. They have been illegal in sports for a long time because of these things‚ many people still argue about letting them in though. Many people are at risk to taking PEDs. I believe that PEDs should stay illegal in sports because of young athletes having role models who do take drugs‚ health problems with PEDs‚ and many athletes seeking an unfair advantage. These are only three of some of the many reasons why PEDs should stay illegal in sports. My first reason is there are problems with
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Should Steroids be legalized in professional sports? Steroids are one of a large group of chemical substances classified by a specific carbon structure. There are several types of performance-enhancing drugs: anabolic steroids‚ stimulants‚ human growth hormone and supplements. The use of drugs to enhance performance in sports has occurred since the time of the original Olympic Games from 776 to 393 BC-2015.The origin of the word ’doping’ is attributed to the Dutch word ’dope‚’ which is a viscous
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The harms steroids can cause on the athlete are not the only concern when taking them. Steroids give athletes that boost in their performance which puts them above their competitors. This gives for an unfair advantage among the players. Since steroids work so well and create an unfair advantage‚ it breaks the social contract athletes agree to: “We are going to have a fair contest” (“ProCon.org”). Sports are about competition on equal footing‚ with respect for the opponent‚ and with respect for
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When approaching the issue as well as trouble of steroid use amongst athletes‚ it is important to acknowledge that juiced athletes are in part a product of the increasingly medicalized society in which we live in. Within this society‚ possible social problems are converted into individual troubles (cf. Mills). Oftentimes we see the problem as arises from the trouble (within the individual) instead of the issue (within the entire society). Also‚ the inherent nature of the behaviour at hand becomes
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Performance enhancing drugs are not good for you and not fair in professional sports. They are not fair because they are pretty much cheating. In the article‚ “Athletes and Drugs”‚ the author states‚ “Some professional athletes use steroids and other drugs to gain a competitive advantage in their sport.”(Sprague) This shows that they are using substances that gives them the upperhand‚ like building muscles‚ in the sport without working hard like everyone else. Also‚ these performance enhancing drugs
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abbreviated as PEDs‚ in professional sports has been around since the 1960s and since then‚ there has been numerous situations in which Olympic athletes have lost medals‚ or platers were given lifelong bans from professional sports because of testing positive for these illegal drugs (“Performance Enhancing…” 1). The several types of PEDs include anabolic steroids‚ stimulants‚ human growth hormone‚ abbreviated as HGH‚ and diuretics (“Performance Enhancing…” 1). Anabolic steroids help athletes train harder
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