Banning Peds In Sports

Performance enhancing drugs must be made legal in professional sports. Professional athletes would not be given free reign of all the PEDs available in the world, but rather a new set of rules would be issued. The rules would allow athletes to meet or exceed their maximum abilities as humans while making it safer than the modern state. If made legal the potential results of PEDs would be tested and altered appropriately to create the safest, most impactful drugs; however, in the current situation professional athletes buy PEDs from sellers without pharmaceutical or sports medicine credentials. Performance enhancing drugs have the potential to develop super humans, and if made legal in professional sports, it would create the most talented and entertaining sporting events of all time.

Steroids should be banned from all sport activities! This is an important topic because athletes from all over the world haven been caught cheating by using performance enhancing drugs. By doing that they are not only disrespecting the sport they participate in but they are disrespecting the other athletes, and especially their own body because there are side effects of steroids use. Steroids have caused a lot of damage to athletes but not only them also the ones who consume it. People who tend to take steroids have been labeled as cheaters and cowards which is not a good reputation for anybody. Steroids have been a problem in sports for a very long time, all sports organizations have tried to stop the use of steroids but somehow people still manage to get away from it. The people who use steroids have an upper hand then everyone else, they can help with an athlete performance even with healing. Steroids should be banned from all competition not only just for the reason that it help people cheat the system but because it ruins a lot of people’s health by using these embarrassing drugs.

In 2013, 12 Major League Baseball players each received fifty game suspensions without pay for using performance enhancing drugs. Big names such as Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriguez were on this list. Testosterone, an illegal substance, is what is found in the performance enhancing drugs. Testosterone increases male characteristics such as body hair, aggression, deepening of the voice, and of course massive muscle growth (“Steroids” par. 1). Some professional athletes claim to use performance enhancing drugs to recover more quickly from injury; others take them because they have not seen the positive feedback in working out, without the use of the steroids. Steroids may be referred to as 'roids', juice, hype, or pump and they are

The use of PEDs is illegal in sports, I believe that it should stay that way. Many athletes have had their lives ruined from PEDs loosing the ones they love or dying themselves, and there are many horrible side effects that include, mental problems, and even death. Also, when someone is taking PEDs and another isn’t in say football then the person who isn’t could get very hurt, in short PEDs should just be dropped out of professional sports. If PEDs stay in professional sports (illegally) then many more people will die. Weather it is from another person or yourself. Having PEDs in professional sports give the athlete side effects that are hard to live with, doesn’t even guarantee that the drugs will work-the risks are high and the chances of it being good are low- they set a bad example for kids and teens around the world who look up to the pro athletes who take PEDs, lastly it will hurt the other athlete or yourself.

“Commentators claim that performance-enhancing drugs are not right or wrong, simply another strategy to improve performance” (Introduction to Performance-Enhancing Drugs). There are two main problems wrong with the use of drugs being legal. Health of athletes would drop devastatingly, and the true competition would become who gets lucky. “Some mourn the loss of yesterday's baseball heroes, while others argue that sport figures who use performance-enhancing drugs expose flaws in American culture” (Introduction to Performance-Enhancing

It is time for the government to legalize steroids. Because so many athletes are using, legalizing is the only way to get a level playing field like the sports associations want. Every athlete would have the option legally to use steroids. Morally and physically, each athlete would have that certain choice to make also. The situation would be out in the open though and drugs can finally be regulated in sports. Performance enhancers in sports have been used illegally throughout the history of sports; it’s time for pro sports to legalize steroids and similar

PEDS were not part of the National Football League or the Major League Baseball in the past and it should be kept that way. What makes these leagues so intriguing to watch these athletes perform is knowing that this is their natural ability. An athletes should not put their body in greater risk of harm just for viewership for the league. Work ethic and human ability should be what gets these athletes into the league, not a drug. Commissioners and viewers know that it is morally wrong to destroy one's’ body just to have a more exciting game. Passing a rule to allow PEDS will ruin the credibility of these athletes abilities and shameful to the commissioner to allow cheating. These athletes should be setting an example to the youth. Younger children

Former NFL superstar and Hall of Famer, Lawrence Taylor once said, “Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.” The use of steroids is banned in professional and organized sports. Performance enhancing drugs should not be accepted in professional sports. Performance enhancing drugs also known as PED’s, violate rules, give players an unfair advantage, and send a terrible message to young athletes. There are many types of PED’s but the main two are Lean Mass Builders and Stimulants. Lean mass builders, which increase the growth of muscle and lean body mass, are popular for athletes who play contact sports. Stimulants can increase athletic performance by increasing focus, energy, metabolic rate, and aggression.

PEDs can and will give you: (Acne, liver damage, etc.) The reasons people use PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) is because the athletes will have a higher chance of winning because some drugs give you better reflexes some make you muscular, and some can make you smart, but… some have deadly side effects; like blood clots and much more. I think that all PED production should be only prescriptions in hospitals. The drugs can hurt you like ruin your liver. They can kill you by causing a heart attack or blood clot. They can ruin your chances of reaching the hall of fame. I know that you may think it is worth it for the money and people but when they find out BAM you’re out of the hall of fame and you have to wait until you stop using the drugs, You also might also have 1 chance or no chances because of using the PEDs. Drugs are only acceptable when you are in a hospital, or if you’re prescribed a drug so you can heal bone or muscle or a medical condition. Eg: if a muscle is torn open they use steroids.

Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds. What do all of these legendary baseball players have in common? They are some of the all-time homerun leaders in the history of Major League Baseball. They also have another thing in common, which is how they all got onto the career home runs list, through the use of performance enhancing drugs. The debate on whether or not performance enhancing substances should be allowed in professional sports has been going on for years, decades even. Many believe that using steroids and other performance enhancers should automatically disqualify an athlete from ever being able to be a member of the Hall of Fame, in sports in general, not just in Major League Baseball. However, there is an argument to be made to make the use of performance enhancing drugs legal in all of professional sports.  Performance enhancing drugs should remain illegal in professional sports because they provide an unfair advantage, they are extremely unethical, and they can also be dangerous to athletes.

If the users of their product experience negative side effects, not many people will buy their product. The demand will be supported by athletes wanting to be the ultimate best at their sport, so they can make the most money possible. Not many of today’s professional athletes play for the love of the game. It is all about the money. Even though a good chunk of money is handed out to every professional player, they are always in search of more. This demand will cause companies to conduct research to identify the cause of the negative side effects of the PEDs. Improvements will be made on the drugs to make them safer for the user resulting in players getting stronger and faster without all the dangers of before. Companies will work their hardest to make the best product possible because they, like the athletes, want to make the most money possible. The more muscle a drug produces while still keeping the athlete safe will determine the amount of that specific drug that athletes will purchase. Athletes would be confident that they are not going to have any problems while taking the drug, and once they get off the drug they will live a normal life. They will not have any long term side effects show up later in their lives because of the critical research conducted by the drug company. This will allow athletes to have kids and teach them how to be even better than they were. Then they can pass their skills down the line to their grandchildren and maybe even to their great-grandchildren. If PEDs were not legalized there would not have been any reason for improvements to be made to the PEDs and athletes could have suffered from the long term

My first problem about PEDs and doping is that it has many side effects like enlarged organs or cancer.taking peds can have many problems that some athletes overlook here are a few,taking steroids can cause cancer,women athletes can have risk of deepening voice or growth of hair,taking steroids can cause raging (when someone gets really mad) , suicidal thoughts,and even in some cases insanity.,men can ‘Develop breasts,Get painful erections,Have their testicles shrink,Have decreased sperm count,Become infertile,and Become impotent’. These are all really good reasons why many people and athletes alike should not take steroids.

Doping refers to the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs by athletes. PEDs or performance-enhancing drugs are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans such as strength, endurance, and speed. The use of PEDs, or doping, are banned in most athletic governing bodies, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC), The National Football League (NFL), The National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), and etc. Some PEDs include anabolic steroids, human growth hormones, blood doping, stimulants, gene doping, and etc. Athletes use performance-enhancing drugs to aid in their athletic performance and gain an unfair advantage against opponents who do not use those drugs. Doping is

This was the major sting to the world of athletics. Not only to baseball but the US as a whole. The well known Clemens was a MVP and a CY Young award winner practically destined for the hall of fame. Soon after famous athletes like Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong were also accused of using PEDs. The strict enforcement is backed up by the risky side effects to doping. The side effects include fever, reduced platelet counts, hypertension, vasoconstriction, gastrointestinal irritability, impaired oxygen delivery to tissues, kidney damage and iron overload. (Technische Universität München) Not only do these drugs pose threats to the athletes health but they help the athletes win, and sometimes athletes would do anything to win, for the money or the fame. Like the antics of a crack cocaine addict searching for a high, these athletes want the high of fame and fortune. This is very dangerous because after a while an addict will go too far with drugs and overdose causing death. Unlike crack cocaine the drug is not addictive but the fame and fortune is. re these drugs worth the risk? Can there be separate leagues for athletic competition - one that allows PEDs and one that does not?

     The last reason why drugs should be banned in sports is because of the many teenagers that are abusing them. According to the National Institutes of Health, a half- million kids under the age of 18 are abusing steroids. It seems that we’re raising a generation of individuals destined to be highly aggressive or severely depressed. Most teenagers do not know the effects that steroids can cause. They lower good cholesterol and raises bad cholesterol. That gives users a better risk