Performance Enhancing Drugs Should Be Banned

This dilemma involves my friend Paul. Paul has been working very hard in practice, and the weight room and has earned a starting position on his team. The team has recently been winning more, and many of the players are using a new performance enhancing drug. Paul’s teammates are always

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.

In sports, the competitive drive to win can be very intensive between athletes. Winning in the game usually brings rewards to athletes both financially and psychologically. Such temptations and the consecutive pressures faced by athletes to excel in the sporting events, attempts to achieve a rival edge especially when the application of performance enhancing drugs by athletes in sports activities has becoming a new trend and relatively common. Performance enhancing drugs are used so athletes could achieve better results with least efforts, even as their health and their athletic careers will be placed in danger. That explains why athletes, sports people and body builders turn to performanc enhancing 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

Today’s society places high-performance athletes on a pedestal and our youth look to become the next superstar. The question plaguing young athletes is “how can I get there?”. Physical development must be considered for any athlete and this consequently introduces the topic of performance enhancing drugs. These substances can cause physical development to occur faster than the natural rate, making the athlete a step above “the rest”. Ethical, moral, and spiritual dilemmas occur when a young athlete contemplates using one or more of these performance enhancers. However, the pressure to excel athletically creates the opportunity to strengthen the relationship with Christ by not engaging in

The Intelligence Square U.S. held a debate about whether or not the government’s rules on performance enhancing drugs should be ban in professional sports. For the debate they had Radley Balko, Investigative Journalist, Norman Fost, Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, and Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford argue for the motion. They argue the fact that the medicines we take on a daily basis from the pharmacy are also performance enhancers. This goes back all the way to the Romans who once used herbs to improve themselves for battle, making them believe that the only exception that separates this from steroids is that it is illegal. On the other hand, you have

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

Ethical dilemmas often face a challenge on deciding what the right action to take is, and therefore are quite complex. Nevertheless, there are situations in which majority of individuals feel there is a clear acceptable choice. Specifically, the use of performance enhancing drugs through the public eye, are often not sanctioned as acceptable. With “the number of professional athletes using steroids […] estimated to be fewer than 1%” (Petersen & Kristensen, 2009). Throughout this paper the scenario regarding performance enhancing drugs will be analyzed specifically focusing on the ethical dilemma, the Christian core beliefs, how they relate to this situation, the resolution, evaluation, and comparison to other options.

“…medical researchers believe that between 1 and 3 million youths and adults have taken anabolic steroids in one form or another specifically to enhance their looks or athletic performances,” stated Nuwer (Nuwer, 61). As astounding as these figures are, the number of performance drug users is steadily increasing. With this progressively increasing numbers, it is projected that millions more will use steroids in the immediate future (Newer, 61). Athletes have always sought an advantage in competition even if ignoring the law and their health if necessary. Using drugs of any sort to facilitate an athlete’s athletic ability should be illegal. The use of performance enhancing drugs is not only detrimental to the user but it also creates an

Do you want to want to become the peak athlete that you know your body is capable of? Well, this paper will not do that for you, but it will tell you how, and it will tell you why it should be legal to do so. Doping in sports is one of the most extensive debates within the realm of athletics. Whether it be injecting anabolic steroids, consuming them, or blood doping, athletes will do drugs. Doping has no effect on the viewership of the sport. Athletes can always find ways to cheat the system, and trying to prevent the use seems impossible. The use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be legalized, as long as it is allowed under medical supervision.

In the present day sports have become more competitive than they used to be. With money and fame at stake many lean towards the use of PEDs to support their career. PEDs also known as performance enhancing drugs which are defined as “any substance taken by an athlete to improve their performance”(DrugFreeSports). The enhancers are broken down into well know categories such as “anabolic steroids, androstenedione, human growth hormone, erythropoietin, diuretics, creatine and stimulants”(Mayo Clinic Staff 2). All these enhancers come with a backlash of negative effects. The use of PEDs are an issue that has been going on for some time now which can negatively affect the team. However, the strain is more on the player who uses it. In result of this issue it produces a tension in sportsmanship. Enhancers are a matter that concerns the players mental and physical state. Overall it also can determine the

In the world of sports, athletes come across many decisions that could make or break their career. The most controversial question in today’s society involves the legalization of performance enhancing drugs in sports. Although the benefits of performance enhancing drugs allows for athletes to perform to the best of their ability, there are many arguments that go in favor and against the use of these drugs. The most recognized argument that is against the use of performance enhancing drugs states that it is considered as morally wrong because it is considered as cheating and having an unfair advantage to those who do not take participation in doping (the use of banned drugs). On the other hand, those who defend the use of performance enhancing

The definition of performance enhancing substances is simple. They are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. They are substances used to make you increase in skill in physical activity. The case that is being presented presenting is the fact that too many athletes in major league sports are using too many performance enhancing substances and people aren’t doing anything about it. Athletes shouldn’t be allowed to increase their strength with some substance that doesn’t require work. My reasonings for this case is the cause of health issues, providing an unfair advantage, and lastly, it sets a bad example. Therefore athletes in major league sports should not be allowed to use performance enhancing substances.

This is a material world promoting material values, thus meaning that it should not be surprising to see individuals being willing to do everything in their power in order to make profits. Or should it? The sports community today is troubled by a series of athletes who have yielded to society's pressures and abandoned their principles with the purpose of taking performance enhancing drugs. It is difficult to determine if it would be normal for the masses to judge these individuals, concerning that they are actually one of the reasons for which these people have come to consider taking performance enhancing drugs in the first place. However, the only ones who can judge them are other hard-working sportspersons who have stood by their principles and who respect the idea of sport in general.

‘Olympic track star Marion Jones was sentenced in a federal court to six months in prison.’ (Kelly and Rao, 2008) The reason why Jones was guilty is because of the use of performance enhancing drugs since 1999. More and more famous athletes prove to have used banned drugs to enhance their performance. At the same time, the role that the anti-doping agency is more and more important in the world wide games, such as Olympic Game, Tour de France. Nowadays, whether the performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be legalized has sparked a heated debate. However, the use of PEDs is morally wrong and it should be banned in sports. This essay will demonstrate three main points which explain the