PEDS Should Not Belong In Professional Sports

Another reason as to why I think PEDs should not be legalized is that it has severe negative effects on musculoskeletal health. As an athlete, my musculoskeletal health is of great concern to me and if I start taking PEDs it will slowly degenerate my heath. Although winning is very important to an athlete, personal health should always be above that. The extreme pressure put on the athletes by their daily training already exhausts their body (muscles, bones, and joints). By taking PEDs, it will help make the body feel better in the short run but it will slowly deteriorate the body in the long run. The article by Nikolopoulos, Spiliopoulou, and Theocharis examines the negative side effects and potential health risks for athletes taking PEDs.

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

PEDs aren't ruining sports or American culture as many people would like to believe. In reality, because PEDs in sports has become commonplace over the years, revenues have increased in the trillions of dollars (Adams et al 2004). The one thing that all the trillion plus dollar major sports have realized is that fans want to see larger than life people doing larger than life things. Fans want to see 40-yard dash times shattered each year at football combines. They want their linemen all to bench press over 500 pounds (Adams et al

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.

PED use has been a controversial topic over the past few decades in professional, both professional and non-professional. There are many positive and negative effects of the use of these type of drugs. The drugs have been said to even out the playing field if the availability was open to everybody, get the body bigger in a shorter amount of time than just training, and make for better and longer lasting events. They have also been said to eliminate the moral and principle of sports, not everybody can respond to the drugs the same way, and they may be linked to long-term negative effects on the human body. Other debates that have been brought up are the influence of these athletes on younger generations and the representation of the the club or team that these athletes play for. It has been a long and controversial road and debate over PED’s.

The main belief among young athletes is that by using drugs (especially performance-enhancing drugs), they will gain a competitive advantage among the competition. However, no matter the purpose, taking steroids or other drugs not prescribed by a physician is illegal and needs to be closely monitored at all levels of athletics. Some people might believe that mandatory drug testing would cause turmoil

The final reason is that the tests are not very strict or cared about. Ped tests are only happening once every couple months. And because they give them the date of when the test is, the players time to get the peds out of their body before their test. “The ped test is not consistent, letting players by clean while still using peds”. (is it easy to pass the NFL drug test-Deadspin). This supports my claim because it shows how the players are able to get by the test

Have you ever thought of using performance enhancing drugs ( PEDS) or thought of what it would do for your sports career ?Well if I were you ,would not take them at all, ask anyone, even ask Palmerio he was a big steroid user in the MLB. His career crashed after getting tested for positive of using steroids in 2005. However, when Palmerio got out of baseball for use of PEDs he told everyone in the world “ Never use PEDs ,Period’’. Palmerio learned from his mistake and that he should never take steroids again in his lifetime. PEDS have influenced baseball so much of the time that all of the players are getting out of the sports now because they have been tested for steroids. Every year of baseball season the PEDs use gets worse, like on May 15 2018 hall of fame Robinson Cano was tested positive for doping. He is suspended for 80 games because of using tham. Many people these days are using PEDs and getting suspended from playing in games. My main opinion is that I think people should not use PEDS in the use.

PEDs have been used in sports for many years. ”The Ancient Olympians used hallucinogens and stimulants as well as herb mixtures in order to improve their fight with fatigue and help with the prevention of injuries” (Listland). “The use of performance enhancing drugs such as caffeine, cocaine, alcohol, and even strychnine, have been used by athletes for decades. Here is a brief timeline of PED use in competitive sports” (Villanova.University).

There are those that also point out that steroid’s and performance enhancement drugs are not the only kids of enhancement methods. One of these methods, “such as taking up temporary residence at a very high altitude in order to increase one’s read blood corpuscles, tremble on the edge between tolerated and reprobated methods of improving one’s athletic performance” (Posner). Though not a drug, this describes someone still gaining an unfair advantage over the competition, which is why this is frowned upon, although not as seriously as steroids or drugs. Others also seek to separate sports and real life, meaning that different rules apply. “Some argue for a ‘bracketed morality’ within sports. This

Whether or not Performing enhancing drugs or PEDs should be allowed in professional sports is one of the most widely discussed topics amongst fans and league officials. It brings a lot of controversy as well as a lot of upside. Many people argue that there is an unfair advantage amongst “clean” athletes while others say that there are many health benefits given to the athletes taking these drugs. As most things in our society, there are many things that have pros and cons to their use, it is just a matter of opinion and risk one is going to have to take if they are willing to go down that road.

It is not okay to take performance enhancing drugs because sport is about fairness, health and talent. Fairness is what makes the game interesting. The spirit of sportsmanship is to

Performance Enhancing Drugs are a big temptation in any athlete's life. Agree or not, the history and facts of performance enhancers will tell you what these drugs can do to your body; the good, the bad and the ugly. Any decision a person makes that putting a foreign substance into their bodies can destroy not only your reputation, but your life as well. There is a lot of history of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), it dates all the way back to ancient Greeks. There are always two sides to an argument, somebody for it, or against it there is no in-between, so there are always the people that are extremists on each side. For this particular argument there are more people against it and it seems just like a few for it; the argument here is

PEDs should be allowed in professional sports. Sports organizations fail to offer a level playing field for all of their athletes. The primary reason PEDs are outlawed, is because they give the user an unfair advantage over other players. But if players are still using them regardless of the rules, then the playing field is unfair. Testing has done little to decrease the use of PEDs, let alone eliminate it. It’s simply unrealistic to catch everyone guilty.

Performance Enhancing Drugs are an injustice to sports and should be permanently banned. PEDs have been a problem for many years and all sports have a problem with it. Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Selig said: "Major League Baseball has worked diligently with the Players Association for more than a decade to make our Joint Drug Program the best in all of professional sports. I am proud of the comprehensive nature of our efforts" (http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/05/mlb-commissioner-bud-selig-drugs-peds). He went on to discuss these efforts in some detail. This topic and efforts have been debated for many years.