Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

The NFL suspends its players without pay for any use of illegal substances based on the number of offenses and the suspensions are four games, eight games, and one full season suspension (Dolich, 2013). Each league has improved its policies in recent years, but the support for increased and better testing continues to grow. The MLB can require players to provide blood samples and the NFL had talks of taking blood samples during training camp in order to test for Human Growth Hormone (HGH), but the NBA and NHL have not applied these procedures in their programs (Calcaterra, 2013).

Steroid abuse has become a huge problem in professional sports today. Athletes are now using steroids to gain a competitive edge over their opponents. Also, the athletes are using the steroids to recover quickly from major injuries or surgeries. Many former superstar athletes have been caught taking steroids during the season and offseason.

The problem with the NFL not fining its players for PED use it makes the league seem soft. They only give the players a four game suspension which doesn’t help them learn anything for the use of PEDs. The players in the NFL now get away without being caught because they are looking for other drugs too, and the players that are caught is very few because of all the other tests going on. This is relevant today because it affects everyone in the US that watches the sport and makes them want to stop watching it, when the people stop watching the NFL loses money from that, so intern everyone loses out on the players using steroids. With the use of PEDs spreading throughout the NFL it seems like a good idea to start teaching all the rookies early about how fast the use of steroids can to do a players career after some time. With the NFL getting new players every year, some of them seem to pick up on veteran players habits for instance they use steroids to make themselves bigger and better like the older players they look up to.

The evaluation of the ineffectiveness of the steroid ban provides changes for the NFL to make in their rule and it provides health consequences for players using the substance. The NFL needs to make a rule change or make the rules stricter in order for players to stop using the substance.

Testing for performance-enhancing drugs protects student-athletes who play by the rules by being clean (NCAA Drug Testing Program). When all of the players are restricted from steroid use it makes the game fair and allows it to be correctly played. In addition, steroid use has become a supplement for many who simply do not want to put in the work or effort to become a better athlete (Steroids and Football). Furthermore, replacing workouts with drugs isn’t a fair tradeoff for those who do become stronger and a more efficient athlete by strengthening themselves. Everyone should have to play by the rules of the game and respect them. In the 1960s, before drug-testing laws were implemented, football coach Sid Gillman actually gave each player a steroid to improve their performance before they stepped onto the field (Steroids and Football). Obviously now that has changed due to testing years later, but the impact it made on each player and the game continues to show why it is so imperative that drug testing for student-athletes should be

There are many different views on whether or not the National Football League (NFL) is right with their substance abuse policy as well as their performing enhancing drugs policy. Both of these policies were agreed upon by the NFL and the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) in 2014. The NFL's current policy on substance abuse includes improper use of prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs and illegal drugs. The agreement prohibits the use, possession, and distribution of drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, opiates and opiods, MDMA, and PCP. Amphetamines also fall under this policy unless the player has a legitimate documented, legitimate need to treat a medical condition. Many people do not agree with allowing players to take

Abstract:  With the increase of competition has also come the need to become bigger and stronger than the opponent.  The use of steroids among athletes has caused the focus of the game to change.  No longer does an athlete want to win by doing their best, but they want to become bigger and have an advantage over the opponent.  Ultimately, all athletes feel that they need to use performance-enhancing drugs to compete at the same level. Despite all of the warnings and information on performance-enhancing drugs, athletes continue to use them and overlook the potential health risks associated with steroids.

Steroids have been around the athletic programs for years and the most testing has come out to spot this type of cheating in order to make playing sports fair. Society has become very lazy over the years and building up hard work has been taking for granted and a lot of people these days spend more time trying to cheat than making the effort to stay steady at the gym and achieve perfection correctly. Effects on steroids come with the good and bad just like everything that is added to the body. When athlete’s get caught use these types of drugs there are some very heavy penalties that can cause an athlete the entire season and if a player misses a season in any sports that experience lost as well as a career tainted by a cheating scandal. “David Howman, the director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, said they were confident of U.S. government cooperation, based on past experience, including the BALCO doping case (Patrick).” The BALCO scandal was one of the biggest bust in sports that brought down huge athletes names like Barry Bond, Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens and Adrian Beltre. These athletes are and were the best in the sport at their prime, which raised question did the steroids play a major part in their success. A lot of these athletes played the Major Baseball League and it has led this twentieth century of that sports to be called the steroid era. Steroids can make a person get extremely big or build

Throughout the history of football, steroid use in American football has plagued both the professional and collegiate divisions of the sport. The widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids has gone largely unnoticed and untreated. Although the National Football League has implemented drug tests to help discourage steroid use, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has been less successful in its efforts. The most common type of steroid is anabolic. Anabolic steroids retain protein like the hormone testosterone to help build muscle. Because football players are expected to gain weight and muscle in short amounts of time, using steroids is tempting for fast results. Anabolic steroids were introduced in the 1930s when they were first synthesized. They were originally used as a hormone supplement for people who did not produce enough testosterone. After

The most commonly discussed issue in sports of the 21st century is the use of performance enhancing drugs by professional athletes. Over the past four years, it has been nearly impossible to turn on the television without hearing something about athletes and these drugs. From former National League MVP Third Baseman Ken Caminiti's admission of steroid use in an issue of Sports Illustrated (Verducci, 2004) to 2006 Tour de France Champion Floyd Landis being stripped of title due to a failed doping test (Blue, 2006) virtually every sport is involved. Are performance enhancing drugs a substance that threatens the very existence of professional sports, or are they the future? Perhaps the issue

The problem with today’s society is that steroids are everywhere and companies are finding ways around the steroid label by producing drugs that contain the same ingredients but are labeled differently. Professional athletes are also becoming big icons for people and many athletes are using steroids to enhance their performance. Athletes are supposed to be role models and by getting involved in these kinds of things people see it as an ok thing to do. Steroids are common everywhere, baseball and football players are constantly finding ways to take these drugs. Pro wrestling

Professional sports are a competition between the greatest athletes in the world. And when I go to a game, that’s exactly what I expect to see. Sports are entertainment. There is no room for purity and respecting the limits that athletes had in the past. Modern athletes should utilize all the resources that they have available to them. This includes steroids, which enhance an athlete’s performance. After all, performance is what really matters.

Recently, the number of athletes being caught using drugs has increased majorly. Few athletes are using drugs as a performance-enhancer, and few several others are just using illegal drugs to do it. No one knows the exact stats to this since some athletes never are caught including not having any choice but to suffer the aftermath of taking drugs. Participants are using anabolic as well as other similar steroids to improve their ways of playing, be the greatest, and have hope to being noticed. Not all though, others are only using illegal drugs for stuff related to making them feel pleasant about themselves, or they’re obsessed with it. Although some professionals are not using performance-enhancing drugs, the fact that

Did you know that there are many pro athletes participating in sports today that are getting away with drug use. In fact it is estimated that 95% of players in the NFL use a performance enhancing drug such as Steroids.

The athletes of our generation are the most physically superior group of athletes our world has ever seen. It is these special humans that are making sports more exciting to watch than ever. Contrarily, some of these athletes are making the sports more difficult and boring to watch because of their lack of skilled compared to the naturally proficient ones. These weaker athletes water down the excitement towards the sports because they provide no real competition to the better players in the sport. Performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) have the ability to make athletes faster and stronger. However, these special drugs are banned from most athletic competition! Even though 1/10 of every ex-NFL player has taken PEDs the remaining 90% remain to stay drug free, also known as underachieving. The reason why this is happening is because of the dull league commissioners who are trying to make their viewers suffer by producing most