A Letter to the Minister of Sports in Singapore

When used by fully trained, elite athletes, performance enhancing drugs can improve performance to a much greater extent than any combination of the most intensive, sophisticated, and costly non pharmaceutical interventions known to modern sports science. Scientifically based training regimens, special diets, and complex physiological and exercise and recovery cannot match the enhancing effects of drugs. The drug use in a subgroup of athletes who even in the absence of drugs are able to compete at an elite level causes their separation into a distinct athletic population, distanced from 'natural' humans by a margin determined by the potency of the drug combinations that are

an Every Second Counts (2003)” (1). His skill had started to fall off from the others, so to recover he used techniques to enhance his performance and had admitted to it: “Armstrong admitted he had been involved in doping during his cycling career” (1). This obsession with winning caused an unhealthy cycle because it lead him down a pathway of drinking and drugs right before he raced. In turn, Armstrongs winning leads him to be the largest figure in cycling for a while, but he still wanted to conquer every race in sight. With every race that he won, it was almost as if a signal was sent to him that it aided others with his condition, when in reality it harmed the spirit of competitive cycling.

Performance-enhancing drugs (PED 's) have been an issue for many decades now for the medical and sports field. Olympic and professional athletes have been using them to gain an upper hand on the competition, but some may ask if it 's really worth it? Studies show that performance-enhancing drugs have been proven to negatively affect the health of athletes who take them. Simply put, performance-enhancing drugs could either improve athletic performance or can be extremely dangerous, in certain situations, deadly. There have been strict rules and drug testing in the professional sporting organizations, as well as in world competitions. For example, in the summer of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, in two of the

The use of illegal substances is rapidly increasing in the college sports due to the expansion of supplements used by athletes that are being banned. In a study done, athletes were asked if illicit drugs would negatively impact their performance. Majority of them responded “yes”, their main reasoning being; the effects of illicit drugs were both mental and physically damaging. Illicit drugs come in many forms, but the testing procedures are all the same for any substance. There is almost always a consequence with the use of prohibited substances. Drug testing is appropriate to help ensure the safety of student athletes while they participate in intercollegiate contests. (Krotee, M 555).

These days it seems as society is constantly being faced with Ethical Dilemmas. Whether it is normal everyday citizens, actors, business executives, and even athletes. The way that every person deal with ethical dilemmas is by relying on their worldview. The world of professional sports is a very tough and competitive place. It is full of top level athletes that are masters in their respective sports and the struggle that they all face is to be better than everyone else. With all these athletes working hard and looking for new ways to better themselves, some take the easy way over the right way. In this paper, the ethical dilemma of performance enhancing drugs being used in sports will be addressed

Drugs in professional sports has become a problem ever since the 1960s. Whether it is a performance enhancing drug, a recreational drug, alcohol or anything along those lines, drug consumption among professional athletes has become more common over time. Along with drug usage by professional athletes comes the health consequences, punishments and or treatment. The penalty professional athletes face for drug consumption should correspond to each drug consumed accordingly.

Do sport administrations know about performance enhanced drugs? These drugs affect athletes and the sport they’re playing tremendously. About the age of a middle school child compared to an adult can obtain these of drugs. These drugs are life threatening to athlete’s health. The use of performance enhancing drugs promotes that cheating is prohibited. It also provides a bad example for athletes to use. Research shows that these drugs have a negative effect to every sport. Performance enhancing drugs manipulate athletes emotionally and physically through their dangers, promoting cheating and providing bad role models.

They are like a nasty, lingering virus, performance enhancing drugs continue to infect sports at all the levels. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Mooloolaba Community Forum Association, today, I Brayden Smith am going to discuss the need for further stringent and effective measures to prohibition the use of performance enhancing drugs in the athletics world. Sports men and women who use steroids are cheaters. They use steroids to gain an unfair advantage which violates the basic spirit of competition, sending the wrong message to young athletes and sporting fans. Sporting clubs promote the athletes to play to super human performance, where sometimes this is merely a facade, where we often do not see what is really happening outside of the locker rooms. Like Ben Johnson and Lance Armstrong, some players are utilising PED’s thinking only of the potentially

Doping in sports has caused a lot of controversy throughout the years in the sports world from youth sports to the professionals. The World Anti-Doping Agency does their best to catch all the drug users but falls short with some people. This causes for an “unfair” advantage and goes against the true value of sport. It can make these players stronger and more athletic which causes more excitement for the fans to watch, more revenue for teams, and growing popularity. Using performance-enhancing drugs is banned in almost every sport, but with the allowed use of them could bring to the players and the sports teams themselves, could outweigh the negative effects of them being used in sports.

Substance Use & Misuse, written by Michael S. Bahrke (2012) examines the issue of drug use by athletes and intervention programs effectiveness. Bahrke (2012) clearly delineates the difficulties faced by doping athletes, the athletic organization, and the public. Sports organization depend on the athlete's performance and positive public perception to flourish. Therefore, it is not in the athlete best interest to admit or seek help with drug addiction because of most organizations’ policies regarding doping, most are in line with the WADA banning

The reference explains how performance enhancing drugs diminish the idea of participation and promote ONLY winning, ruins the ‘spirit of sport’, pose severe health risks, promote unhealthy and dangerous behaviour, and questions the ethical issues of drug advertising/ sponsorship if doping were allowed in

There is evidence saying that athletes would use drugs if they knew that taking them would ensure they would win but not be caught. This shows that if there was no risk many of our athletes would put their bodies under too much stress by putting harmful products into their systems.

Lance won seven Tour de France titles while under the influence of drugs such as erythropoietin (EPO), cortisone, steroids, growth hormone, testosterone and even had blood transfusions or as it’s known as, blood doping. EPO is a hormone that is produced by the kidneys that promotes formation of red blood cells. It can be injected or you can get it through a blood transfusion also known as blood doping. Cortisone

But we all know about negative effects of those drugs. If the use of such drugs is allowed, it will press the athletes to take more and more drug to get and advantage over other drug user athlete and may even result in death of athlete by overdose. Furthermore, “the drug race in sport has the potential to create a slow motion public health catastrophe” and “We may lose whatever is most graceful,

Doping has widely become known as the use of banned substances and practices by sports personnel particularly athletes in an attempt to improve sporting performances. No sensible fan of sport today denies the prevalence of drugs in virtually every major sport, yet none would argue they can ever be eliminated completely. Money alone would seem to guarantee that much. High profile athletes today are competing for high stakes, not just millions, but dozens of millions. The fear of losing everything career, opportunity, contracts, name, fame, and money is pushing more sportsmen all over the world to use performance enhancing drugs, mainly