The Use Of Performance Enhancing Drugs Popularly Known As Doping

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.

The desire to compete — and win — is as old as history itself. From the beginnings of sport, athletes have sought out foods and potions to turn their bodies into winning machines. As early as 776 BCE, the very first Olympic games, there are records of attempts to increase testosterone levels (“Steroid Abuse in Sports”). Ancient Greek wrestlers ate vast amounts of meat to gain muscle mass, and Norse “Berserker” warriors took hallucinogenic mushrooms before battle. The first competitive athletes to be charged for doping, however, were swimmers in 1860s Amsterdam. Doping of all kinds, from caffeine to cocaine to anabolics quickly spread to other sports (“Anabolic Steroids, a Brief History”).

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.

Substance Use & Misuse, written by Michael S. Bahrke (2012) examines the issue of drug use by athletes and intervention programs effectiveness. Bahrke (2012) clearly delineates the difficulties faced by doping athletes, the athletic organization, and the public. Sports organization depend on the athlete's performance and positive public perception to flourish. Therefore, it is not in the athlete best interest to admit or seek help with drug addiction because of most organizations’ policies regarding doping, most are in line with the WADA banning

No matter the sport, most athletes seek every competitive advantage to make it to the top. One of the main advantages is the performance athletes gain through drug use, and a big question today is the real purpose behind the drugs. Is an athlete truly just trying to enhance his or her performance to make it to the next level, or is there a deeper meaning, a problem with body image and how the public views these athletes, or a combination of both? According to an article on the Dilemmas of Doping, the rules in sports have two effects, “One is private: rules produce an entertaining game that generates private benefits for players, owners, and especially spectators. The other is social: rules tend to reward play that exhibits self-discipline, sacrifice for the good of the whole, and fair play.” ( qtd in Bird, Edward J and Gert G. Wagner). An athlete not only is rewarded by fair play, but winning without cheating, using drugs, etc. is the ultimate feeling of accomplishment. These athletes may have a sense that without stimulants they will never reach the top and feel like they have no other choice.

Do you want to want to become the peak athlete that you know your body is capable of? Well, this paper will not do that for you, but it will tell you how, and it will tell you why it should be legal to do so. Doping in sports is one of the most extensive debates within the realm of athletics. Whether it be injecting anabolic steroids, consuming them, or blood doping, athletes will do drugs. Doping has no effect on the viewership of the sport. Athletes can always find ways to cheat the system, and trying to prevent the use seems impossible. The use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be legalized, as long as it is allowed under medical supervision.

The issue over steroids and other performance enhancer drugs has been a recent topic in the sports world. The debate over whether or not to punish those who have been caught using has been a major topic recently, as well as the legalization of these drugs. When arising the question of whether or not to legalize steroids, many positive and negative factors are brought to the table, and in effect could change various aspects of our normal day lives.

Being an athlete means that there would be an encounter, at some point in their career, with immense pressure from peers or coaches, to excel, to win. Sometimes professional athletes would begin desire to be the best, to become stronger, faster and better. Doing so would help their careers and finances, it could even guarantee fame for the athletes. Their cravings for success and better athletic performance could be because of either personal reasons or for material gain, such as medals and money. Some of them even turn to performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids or anesthetics, their reasons for doing so are usually to lose weight, to gain more muscle or to relax and stimulate their bodies. It’s not a surprise that there are preventions for athletes to use performance-enhancement drugs, even consequences for the rule-breakers. Yet why do they still risk getting caught, and risk achieving physical damage to their bodies.

Out of the 21,849 drug tests during the 1968-2008 summer games there was 105 cases of positive drug tests (“Drugs and athletes”). Performance Enhancing Drugs can either be Stimulants, Anabolic-androgenic steroids, human growth hormones, and Erythropoientin (“Performance Enhancing”). PED’s improve your overall athletic performance. PED’ are harmful and can even be fatal. Athletes use these substances to gain an unfair advantage to become better than their opponent. Athletes who use PED’s violate the spirit of competition and makes it not fun to compete for players who respect the rules. Every year countless players take PED’s to give them an unfair boost that can harm them, it also does not show their true athleticism on the field.

The debate over athletes using steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs has always been a hot-button issue in the sports world. From major league athletes in baseball and football; to track stars and bicyclist in the Olympics, the use of steroids in sports has been a wide-range problem. Those who disagree with the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs say that the athletes who use them are breaking the rules and getting an unfair advantage over others. Opponents of steroids say the athletes are endangering not only their own health, but also indirectly encouraging youngsters to do the same (Katz, 2008). On the opposite side, supporters of steroids say that the risk to athletes using

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

This paper examines the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in professional sports. In all professional sports like baseball, basketball, football, and organized fighting, PEDs have been used to enhance athletes, however there is a question of ethics in the use of PEDs. Some examples of PEDs are anabolic steroids, doping, and stimulants. All of these effect an athlete’s performance in a different way, although their health is also at risk. The life span of athletes is depleting without the use of PEDs, therefore with PEDs being used it is only worse. Also these professional athletes are role models to thousands of young athletes. These young athletes are looking

Doping has widely become known as the use of banned substances and practices by sports personnel particularly athletes in an attempt to improve sporting performances. No sensible fan of sport today denies the prevalence of drugs in virtually every major sport, yet none would argue they can ever be eliminated completely. Money alone would seem to guarantee that much. High profile athletes today are competing for high stakes, not just millions, but dozens of millions. The fear of losing everything career, opportunity, contracts, name, fame, and money is pushing more sportsmen all over the world to use performance enhancing drugs, mainly

In the last couple of years, many athletes in different sports have been caught using performance-enhancing drugs known as Steroid. When an athlete's test are positive for performance-enhancing drugs, the athlete is usually well known through the news.It has been seen as that when an athlete performs is excellent in their sport; the speculations arise the use of steroids or other performing-enhancing drugs. Steroids impact on intercollegiate/ professional sports has caused an uproar in the need to change of rules/laws and the performance of the athletes.

There is no defined number to how many people in the world love sports. Whether you play it, watch it, or just simply hear about it, it’s no surprise that over half of the human population finds at least one sport appealing. From the era of the B.C.’s to our 21st century, sports have always been a popular aspect of our daily curriculums. There’s just something about the action and the winning triumph moments that really gets the adrenaline pumping, for all athletes and fans alike. Victory is important, but how can the actions of getting there affect the sporting world as a whole? As technologies improve throughout the years, more and more athletes are cheating their way to success by taking drugs or blood doping. Drug usage and doping have