Should Steroids Be Legalized?

Performance-enhancing drugs (PED 's) have been an issue for many decades now for the medical and sports field. Olympic and professional athletes have been using them to gain an upper hand on the competition, but some may ask if it 's really worth it? Studies show that performance-enhancing drugs have been proven to negatively affect the health of athletes who take them. Simply put, performance-enhancing drugs could either improve athletic performance or can be extremely dangerous, in certain situations, deadly. There have been strict rules and drug testing in the professional sporting organizations, as well as in world competitions. For example, in the summer of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, in two of the

If everyone wanted to level the playing field, maybe it’s time to legalize performance enhancing drugs. Legalizing PEDs would make life so much easier for professional sports organizations that are currently tasked with keeping their players “legal” under the anti-doping policies. It would be easier to allow PEDs in sports than to constantly test athletes that are suspected cheaters. Plus from a business stand point it makes more sense for professional sports to legalize performance enhancers. One needs only to look to the late 1990’s where Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa put together two of the most memorable baseball seasons in the history of Major League Baseball. The home run race was popular world wide as jerseys flew off the shelves for these two athletes,

Doping in sports has caused a lot of controversy throughout the years in the sports world from youth sports to the professionals. The World Anti-Doping Agency does their best to catch all the drug users but falls short with some people. This causes for an “unfair” advantage and goes against the true value of sport. It can make these players stronger and more athletic which causes more excitement for the fans to watch, more revenue for teams, and growing popularity. Using performance-enhancing drugs is banned in almost every sport, but with the allowed use of them could bring to the players and the sports teams themselves, could outweigh the negative effects of them being used in sports.

As you seen peds can do good. They should be used only in hospitals not in sports. They have a great potential for good. It can save lives, but also take them. We need professionals to handle them and no i'm not talking about professional athletes, talking about professional doctors and scientists using them for good.

Furthermore, I want to encourage the reason to allowing PEDs in sports. From looking at the present and seeing what the future holds is quite interesting. Competition will continue to increase with the natural increase in athletes skills. Pushing again for more advantages and encouragements for Performance-Enhancing Drugs to le legalized. Thank

It’s crazy, why people think that it's okay to use performance enhancing drugs (PEDS) . It gives the most unfair advantage in sports such as Increased leanness and muscle definition, Increased muscle mass, General weight gain, Increased strength, Increased effectiveness of training, Improved recovery rate Euphoria (feelings of positivity and confidence), and Increased aggressiveness. This is why I think PEDS do not belong in professional sports.

In almost every sport today, people are abusing the game by using PED's (Performance Enhancing Drugs). These athletes doing this are cheating the sport by using illegal drugs that help peak their performance and give them an unfair advantage over the athletes who are playing the game correctly. An example of this is a baseball player using a steroid to increase his bat speed allowing him to hit the ball farther and harder. These PED's are becoming more and more prominent in the world of competition and are turning some sports heroes into sports cheaters.

In the world of sports the competition is crazy. Players will do absolutely anything to win including cheating their way to the top like using performance enhancing drugs. Also known as doping in sports which is the use of banned performance enhancing drugs. It is considered unethical by most international sport organizations. There are five different types of doping classes, such as banned drugs the most common two being stimulants and hormones. Stimulants are used to make the athlete more alert and mask fatigue. Anabolic agent-steroids help the athletes to train harder and build muscles. Diuretics remove fluid from the body that are used to hide other drug use. Narcotic analgesics which mask pain caused by injury. Pesticides and hormones Including EPO which are red blood cells that give more energy and HGH which builds muscles. Although these drugs enhance the users performance it also has a high amount of health risks. Leading to heart failures, strokes or other heart problems. Increased aggression and kidney damage, severe dehydration, abnormal growth and

In J. Savulescu, B.Foddy and M.Clayton’s “Why We Should Allow Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports” (published 2004), we see their view on how performance enhancing drugs can make the sporting world a better and a much more equitable field to play in. They imply that, because of our current technological advancements, it has become easier to use performance enhancing drugs without feeling the severe side effects they used to cause. The author’s also suggest that since the punishment is just a meager six months to a year ban, while players are still being given an opportunity to earn millions in the future, banning performance enhancing drugs is a waste of time. Overall, they imply that Doping should be an action that should be embraced

The use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) among athletes in professional sports has caused an outrage all around the world for many years.

If the users of their product experience negative side effects, not many people will buy their product. The demand will be supported by athletes wanting to be the ultimate best at their sport, so they can make the most money possible. Not many of today’s professional athletes play for the love of the game. It is all about the money. Even though a good chunk of money is handed out to every professional player, they are always in search of more. This demand will cause companies to conduct research to identify the cause of the negative side effects of the PEDs. Improvements will be made on the drugs to make them safer for the user resulting in players getting stronger and faster without all the dangers of before. Companies will work their hardest to make the best product possible because they, like the athletes, want to make the most money possible. The more muscle a drug produces while still keeping the athlete safe will determine the amount of that specific drug that athletes will purchase. Athletes would be confident that they are not going to have any problems while taking the drug, and once they get off the drug they will live a normal life. They will not have any long term side effects show up later in their lives because of the critical research conducted by the drug company. This will allow athletes to have kids and teach them how to be even better than they were. Then they can pass their skills down the line to their grandchildren and maybe even to their great-grandchildren. If PEDs were not legalized there would not have been any reason for improvements to be made to the PEDs and athletes could have suffered from the long term

The use of steroids in sports should be outlawed because they are illegal, harmful to one’s body, extremely costly, could damage an athletes’ career as well as become quite addictive.

There are many athletes that have confirmed positive for performance enhancing drugs (PED’s), which are also commonly referred to as a process called “doping.” Competitors use medications such as stimulants, human growth hormone, anabolic steroids, supplements and other methods to help them elevate their performance. The reasons many chose to “dope” are obvious; more strength/quickness leads to better performance, recognition and can often lead to bigger contracts and endorsements. These drugs increase energy, stamina, provide quicker recovery and muscle mass and can prolong careers or provide quicker recovery after injuries. However almost every sport you can think of has been marred by these abuses

There are many reasons as to why I don’t agree that athletes should be able to take steroids and I have three as to why. First of my reasons as to why I don’t agree with athletes using steroids is that they have a high health risk the use of steroids can cause long damage to their body which is not good for their life after sports. Secondly, there will be an unfair advantage to those who wouldn’t want to take the steroids therefore they would begin to have less of an advantage of being better than the other players and they would be left out. Finally, by athletes taking steroids the younger athletes that look up to them and they will notice that they take steroids and they would want to take steroids to be like their role models. By athletes

One of the main issues associated with performance enhancing drugs is the health risk. For athletes to excel for a short amount of time they need to take enhancers which leaves a long term damaging effect on the body. In some cases athletes have died from taking the drugs and they have also died from withdrawal. Between 1987, shortly after athletes are believed to have begun using EPO, and 1990, 20 young Belgian and Dutch cyclists died due to heart complications causing blockages leading to cardiac arrests. If performance enhancing drugs were to be legalized it would influence the much younger, impressionable, aspiring athletes into believing that they don't have to work hard to become and athlete and that they can take shortcuts to get what they want despite health issues.