Performance Enhancing Drugs Should Not Be Legalized

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 the article, “Performance Enhancing Drugs, Paternalism, Meritocracy, and Harm to Sports” by Nicholas Dixon, argues that PED 's should remain banned due to the many different medical risks one could develop when taking drugs mostly, anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids might be the most popular performance-enhancing drugs out there today, but most definitely isn 't the only one being used. There are many medical problems associated with these types of steroids, “they include heart disease, cancer, or other damage to the liver, and damage to both males ' and females ' reproductive system” (Dixon, 247). Anabolic steroids affect an athlete both mentally and physically. The psychological damage one may have is an increased aggressiveness and sexual appetite, sometimes resulting in abnormal

Performance Enhancing Drugs(PEDs) shouldn’t be used in sports, because of its adverse health consequences. According to an article called Performance-Enhancing Drugs Can Have Severe Long-Term Impact on Health: Expert, in the long term, PEDs can cause impotence, worsening acne, balding and “steroid rage.” This conveys that if athletes use PEDs there will be serious effects and severe consequence to their health. Also, the drugs aren't subject to government safety standards and could be impure or mislabeled.(Article: Performance-enhancing drugs: Know the risks?) Therefore, the illegal drugs and supplements that the athlete consume are dangerous, damaging and potentially deadly. The drug could be made out of something that gives you a disease or even kills you because it doesn’t meet the government safety

First, PED use can influence kids in the wrong way and make them believe PED’s are helpful. Second, PED use is also a big problem in sports which can be fixed, through many things such as better testing, and increased education on what PED’s have an effect on your body. Finally the after effects of PED’s are also bad. They can lead to instability and serious problems that get the user into the hospital. Think twice about using steroids. Don’t end up like other athletes that have used steroids. Take them as an example of somebody not to look up

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

For many years sports have played huge roles in human’s everyday lives. From entertainment, political, financial and to actually competing in them. The task for the sportsmen or women, especially in the top rank, is to beat the other competitors and get a good result from it. Here there is a high amount of pressure on many athletes coming from the media, coaches, themselves etc. They have the wanting to do well and achieve their goals and aims so much that some of the athletes turn to performance enhancing drugs. Obviously training for competition is the main thing to do but using drugs is another helper to succeeding. So, to their way of thinking, doping does not seem like cheating it just seems like

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

Peds can cause serious health effects and even cost you your life. Evidence to support my claim is “Physical Consequences of Abuse: Joint pain, Muscle weakness, Fluid retention, Vision problems, Carpal tunnel syndrome, Impaired glucose regulation, Enlarged heart (cardiomegaly), High cholesterol (hyperlipidemia), Diabetes, High blood pressure (hypertension), Changes in mood or emotional level, Increased aggression or temper, Muscle Cramps, and Kidney Damage.” (Performance Drugs among professional athletes -Tori Long) some drugs like Anabolic steroids can stunt growth and puberty in

The pediatricians in the American Academy of Pediatricians get assisted in dealing with users or potential users of PEDs and offers recommendations: “1.Use of performance-enhancing substances for athletic or other purposes should be strongly discouraged, 2.Parents should take a strong stand against the use of performance-enhancing substances and, whenever possible, demand that coaches be educated about the adverse health effects of performance-enhancing substances, 3.Schools and other and other sports organizations should be proactive in discouraging the use of performance-enhancing substances, incorporating this message into policy and educational materials for coaches, parents, and athletes, 4.Interventions for encouraging substances-free competitive should be developed that are more positive than punitive, such as programs that teach sound nutrition and training practices along with skills to resist the social pressures to use performance-enhancing substances, 5.Colleges, schools, and sport clubs should make use of educational interventions that encourage open and frank discussion of issues related to the use of performance-enhancing substances, with the aim of promoting decisions about personal drug use based on principles of fair competition and character rather than on the fear of getting caught, 6.Coaches at all level including youth sports, should encourage wholesome and fair competition by emphasizing healthy nutrition and training practices, taking a strong stand against

Athletes are tempted to use performance enhancement drugs to heighten their abilities in the performance of their sport. Which often consists of illegal or unethical use of these substances. Some reasons for the justification of their actions is to attain lucrative contracts, fame, and fortune. “It is the seduction of the quick fix—an immediacy to attain success—that drives so many people,” (Annie Hiyashi). Sometimes, it is the fear of losing it all that drives them to experiment with PED’s, not thinking that if caught, it will tarnish their reputation and will lose fame and

Competing at any level should be about ‘the spirit of the game’ by playing fairly and trying the hardest to succeed. Competitions are there to test the ability of athletes, to give them something to drive for. If the drugs are then legalised the meaning of competition would no longer stand. There is such a huge audience that come to watch sporting competitions, the Olympics attract people from all across the world to support their country. People engage in sporting events for different reasons. One of the main reasons is that with every match or sprint or swim comes unpredictability. The audience never knows how it is going to end, who will be the new titleholder of a gold medal. This then leads to the audience, forced to sit tightly and wait for the vital moment. By legalising performance enhancing drugs every athlete would be performing at predominantly the same rate leading to there being no room for improvement, making every competition very similar in terms for results. This would then effect the audience as it would become tedious knowing that the athletes who take the drugs would be at the

Athletes are in the public eye and their actions can affect those whom they portray as role models. Therefore, the use of performance-enhancing drugs should be banned and athletes who continue to use it should face severe punishments. Doping is a very controversial issue that started in a range between 776 to 393 BC during the original Olympic games. Since then, many athletes have had to return their medals and face their consequences. Because society had become accustomed to athletes using steroids and performance-enhancing drugs, the athletes that are caught are the only ones that are hated, yet not the ones who take it, but are not caught. These drugs provide an unfair advantage to the user, affect other people from youngsters to coaches

The current issue in sport particularly athletics is the use of performance enhancing drugs popularly known as doping. Spectacular doping cases have risen in the sporting arena that has caused unexpected situations and annoyed the public who are the fans. People have limited knowledge regarding doping though it is an ancient time issue. As a result, some people believe that all professional athletes have always been doped to achieve the standards of good performance and even compete and win in most of the great tournaments (Anderson, 2013). However, the number of athletes that have been positively tested has been small and almost non-representative thus raising suspension that only a few athletes are the influence of drugs. This is not therefore enough to make a generalized conclusion concerning the world of sports.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention did a survey on high schoolers grades 9th through 12th and found out the 4.4% to 5.7% of boys and that 1.9% to 3.8% of girls have used illegal steroids (Fernandez and Robert). High schoolers are not the only ones that take performance enhancing drugs, all sorts of athletes and even nonathletes take them. Taking performance enhancing drugs harms the human body in so many different ways like it harms the Hormonal System, Musculoskeletal System, Cardiovascular System, Liver, and the Skin (National Institute on Drug Abuse). Even in some cases performance enhancing drugs have killed the user; there were several cyclists that have died from taking them. Because of all physically harmful effects that performance enhancing drugs have, it should be deemed illegal in all states.

Doping in sports has been one of the most discussed issues by the world; either by the free writers or the body of agencies related with sports. The discussion about this kind of issue has started long time ago but it became more controversial and intense when Lance Armstrong, who won the 2002 Tour de France by leaving his nearest rival 7 seconds behind, failed the drug test (Cashmore) . Ellis Cashmore, a professor of culture, media, and sports at Staffordshire University in the United Kingdom, through his article, “Making Sense of Sports” , came up with an argument that drug should be allowed in sports. In the article, he effectively countered the argument of some people out there that taking drug will lead to the unfair competition. As we are from the generation who are never bored of seeking the best in human ability, the usage of drug is crucial in order to boost the performance of the athlete. The prohibition of drug usage in sports surely will affect the athletes’ performances and next lead to the turning off by the fans and this is surely a thing needs to be taken into account (Cashmore) . I, myself, agree with Ellis Cashmore that drug should be allowed in sports and I will explain my argument in terms of the misconception about drug, the role of drug in promising competitive sports, and the function of drug in maintaining athletes’ health.