Should Performance Enhancing Drugs Be Allowed In Sports

Ever since the start of sports, steroids has been a rising problem found in athletes but is it really a problem? Although steroids are considered cheating to numerous people, they have become the biggest use for athletes looking to boost their endurance and should be made legal. Steroids should be made legal because steroids enhance athletes through their ability/resistance by passing their limits. Steroids would not be considered cheating if everyone used them and is on the same level of greatness. Steroids allow athletes to reach their full potential of their talent, by being recognized more by people.

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.

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

“…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

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.

Steroid use in today’s youth is also becoming a large problem. With an ever- increasing pressure to “make it big” high school athletes are succumbing to the temptation of steroids and by taking that path, they risk injury. High school athletes are not physically mature enough to handle the impressive transformations that steroids could bring. Bones can only hold so much lean muscle mass and once that point is reached the muscle can only tear. This is one of the large negatives involved with steroids and is an increasing problem in today’s

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.

Should athletes use performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Sports is losing its integrity that used to be based on natural athleticism of both college and pros athletes alike. Those who were using performance enhancing drugs, care about fame and winning. For example, Justin Gatlin was on the track field and then he was able to run faster than his opponents but, he did not feel right about himself and he admitted doing drugs before the race. Other athletes have also admitted doing sport enhancing drugs and it hurt their reputations as well.

The use of performance enhancing drugs in sports (doping) is done to improve athletic performance. Doping in sports has become a highly controversial topic among professional sporting venues and in the media. With the increased pressure to perform, high priced contracts, increased competition, and advanced training methods today’s athletes will try to gain an edge by any means necessary. Performance enhancing drugs used by athletes today include Human Growth Hormone (HGH), anabolic steroids, peptide hormones, amphetamines, insulin and stimulants. The reason athletes use performance enhancing drugs is to increase the amount of testosterone produced in the body. The increased testosterone in the body increases muscle strength by enabling new

The definition of anecdotal evidence is “not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research.” That is not to say that all anecdotal evidence is to be dismissed as irrelevant as observations by participants and audiences of sports can be accurate. However, to test all adolescent athletes in Australia for performance enhancing drugs solely on the bases of an opinion is highly ineffective and time consuming, as there are other ways to combat the problem.

Should performance enhancing drugs be accepted in sports? These enhancing drugs in sports such as anabolic steroids, stimulants, human growth hormone and supplements SHOULD BE IN USE IN SPORTS ACTIVITIES! Why should they not? Because these enhancing drugs have a negative effect on long-term health, they are also hurting themselves along the way without the average improving their short-term rewards from athletic competition.

“We Should Allow Performance Enhancing Drugs” by Savulescu, Foddy, and Clayton argues that the allowance of performance enhancing drugs in the world of sports would not go against the ‘spirit of sport’ and may instead support it. In this paper I will reconstruct the arguments used by Savulescu et al. to dispute the proclaimed violations. The first argument is such that the use of performance enhancing drugs in animal sport would violate the spirit of the sport, but human sport and animal sport are inequivalent. The second of their arguments is that the use of performance enhancing drugs in the realm of classical music is considered perfectly acceptable despite the similarities between the two forms of competition. Furthermore, this paper will

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

Should athletes scores and records be stripped if it is found out that they used performance enhancing drugs. In short answer I think yes, mainly because such records would be nearly impossible to reach those limits without using the drugs themself. But, i'm not totally agreeing with that and i’m going to tell you why.