Should Performance Enhancing Drugs Be Accepted In Sports

Should athletes be stripped of their titles and medals for using sports-enhancing drugs? Do sports-enhancing drugs actually improve the athlete’s natural abilities to the extent where their abilities are no longer natural? These are the controversial questions that stem from athletes involved with sports-enhancing drugs. Substances that improve the performance of an athlete are classified as an enhancing drug. Anabolic steroids, human growth hormones, and even diuretics are some commonly used sports-enhancing drugs. The professional sports industry, in my opinion, is being defined by athletes who are using or not using sports-enhancing drugs. The athletes who are in the professional sports world today and are achieving greatness end up being on a form of enhancing drug in most cases.

Do you feel that PED’s should be allowed in sport? The problem is that players use PED’s or Performance Enhancing Drugs to get an advantage over their opponents. Despite the advances in technology for discovering PED’s, there is still a great number of people who get away with PED’s. Many people continue to use PED’s and will continue to use them until they get caught, and even after they get caught. Performance enhancing drugs should not be allowed in sports, resulting in more fair competition.

In the brutal, competitive world of sports and athletics where athletes are expected to be perfect and perform at the highest level, there is a copious amount of athletes looking for a way to get the edge over one another. Steroids is often the drug used to give them that edge, but should these drugs be allowed? A person would think it would be an ignominy to cheat but it is becoming quite normal. There was a boy named Taylor Hooton from a small town just north of Dallas. Taylor was in a family full of talented athletes; however, a month after his 17th birthday Taylor killed himself because of steroids. His father was a pitcher in the MLB, and his brother a pitcher in college. Taylor had a lot of pressure on him to be successful, and it forced him to make a risky move that did not pay off. Yes, steroids can help athletes get stronger and better at what they do; however, it does a lot more harm to you than you think. 30% of collegiate and professional athletes take steroids, as do 10%-20% of high school athletes. (Meunier) Taking performance enhancing drugs at any level of athletics should not be allowed because it gives players an

Athelete should be allowed to take performace of enhancing drugs. Steroids are not always bad for people. Some doctors even recomend steroids for people who are underweight and wants to gain

The world of competitive sports may never accept anabolic steroids. In not doing so they are limiting athletes to only perform to the best of their unaided ability. Is it really fair to tell an athlete what they can and can’t use as an enhancer to perform better? The fans and sports enthusiast, may never be able to witness the full physical potential of competitors. Anabolic steroids should be legal in professional sports and embraced to allow the human body to be pushed to the next level.

Should athletes be allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs (such as steroids or EPO) or techniques (such as blood doping or oxygen tanks)?

Barry Bonds, Mark Mcgwire and Sammy Sosa, some of MLB’s biggests stars, are players who have used Performance enhancing drugs like steroids (Auerbach). Athletes wanting to get an advantage on others started to use drugs like steroids. These enhancing drugs should not be allowed in sports. The drugs have bad side effects, and also gives athletes an unfair advantage.

Knowing wrong from right seems to be a harder and harder concept for people to grasp. As the American culture wanders farther and farther from a Christian Worldview, so it seems America loses its grip on morals and ethics. In this paper, there will be an exploration of ethics in regards to performance enhancing drug use in athletes. Performance enhancing drugs should continue to be banned due to health risk factors, the element of cheating and abuse of the athlete 's body.

Attention Grabber: Depression, convulsions, anxiety, jaundice, myocardial infarction aka heart attack, eczema, abscess. All of these are listed in the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System as known side effects of Vitamin C(Adverse Event Reporting System)…? Huh...What makes steroids more controversial than Vitamin C? After all, it’s common knowledge that the abuse of pretty much anything can come with some pretty severe adverse effects.

Anabolic steroids should never be someone's “go to” to become a better athlete, and should never be looked at as anything beneficial. Many people consider performance enhancing drugs as being a great resource because it will provide them with many advantages in a quick and efficient way. Really, all it is doing is creating many problems/conflicts in sports, and is causing severe health problems in one’s life. Overall, we need to find a way to stop the use of anabolic steroids, not just in sports but in

And finally, athletes are not taking them for medical reasons, but to gain an unfair advantage in their sport. The drugs are illegal, and make players prone to many diseases. Professional players should not be allowed to take performance enhancing drugs. Professional sports players should not be allowed to take performance enhancing drugs is that they are a hazard

have drugs under medical prescription will allow young athletes to look for any excuse to get

With new types of technology people have started to believe that athletes should be allowed to take performance enhancing drugs. They believe that these performance enhancing drugs improve the performance level of athletics, which will help give the audience something better to watch (Gendin). Others also believe that without steroids “[T]here would be far fewer home runs; smaller, slower, less muscular athletes and no new records for the next few decades until human development and equipment technology compensated for the absence of these drugs. There also would be fewer fans, reduced ticket sales, less ad revenue, less lucrative TV contracts and smaller stadiums built. The benefits of performance-enhancing drug use exist at every level of

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.

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