Why Do Athletes Use Peds?

In every sport, there has always been a desire to win. Some athletes will do anything to make winning possible. Every elite athlete wants to be better than their opponent. Some rely on performance enhancing drugs, also known as PED’s, to improve their game. This topic is very important because it can be the difference between winning and losing. Winning can mean money, fame and a place in history. I believe athletes should not use PED’s in sports because it is an unfair advantage, health risk, bad role modeling, bad sportsmanship, and results in tainted records and awards.

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

The use of PEDs is illegal in sports, I believe that it should stay that way. Many athletes have had their lives ruined from PEDs loosing the ones they love or dying themselves, and there are many horrible side effects that include, mental problems, and even death. Also, when someone is taking PEDs and another isn’t in say football then the person who isn’t could get very hurt, in short PEDs should just be dropped out of professional sports. If PEDs stay in professional sports (illegally) then many more people will die. Weather it is from another person or yourself. Having PEDs in professional sports give the athlete side effects that are hard to live with, doesn’t even guarantee that the drugs will work-the risks are high and the chances of it being good are low- they set a bad example for kids and teens around the world who look up to the pro athletes who take PEDs, lastly it will hurt the other athlete or yourself.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) explained the data presented in figure 3.2 A. It describe the percentages on the perceptions of values most reinforced through sport. A number of athletes wanted to have higher opportunity to win in the game as well as having desire to increase the effectiveness of their performances. In order to achieve their goals, they willing to consume PEDs in sports. This causes inequality among athletes in the competition espacially to those who do not consume PEDs. Also, athletes with doping habit Hence, this explains that PEDs create un unfairness among athlets and bring bad influence to teenagers.

PED use has been a controversial topic over the past few decades in professional, both professional and non-professional. There are many positive and negative effects of the use of these type of drugs. The drugs have been said to even out the playing field if the availability was open to everybody, get the body bigger in a shorter amount of time than just training, and make for better and longer lasting events. They have also been said to eliminate the moral and principle of sports, not everybody can respond to the drugs the same way, and they may be linked to long-term negative effects on the human body. Other debates that have been brought up are the influence of these athletes on younger generations and the representation of the the club or team that these athletes play for. It has been a long and controversial road and debate over PED’s.

PEDs can and will give you: (Acne, liver damage, etc.) The reasons people use PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) is because the athletes will have a higher chance of winning because some drugs give you better reflexes some make you muscular, and some can make you smart, but… some have deadly side effects; like blood clots and much more. I think that all PED production should be only prescriptions in hospitals. The drugs can hurt you like ruin your liver. They can kill you by causing a heart attack or blood clot. They can ruin your chances of reaching the hall of fame. I know that you may think it is worth it for the money and people but when they find out BAM you’re out of the hall of fame and you have to wait until you stop using the drugs, You also might also have 1 chance or no chances because of using the PEDs. Drugs are only acceptable when you are in a hospital, or if you’re prescribed a drug so you can heal bone or muscle or a medical condition. Eg: if a muscle is torn open they use steroids.

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.

“CRACK” and there goes his third home run for the game. This has never happened in his baseball career until today and many people are asking questions. Is this natural? Or is there something going on behind the scenes? As it turns out, he had actually been using performance enhancing drugs (PED) for the past seven months leading up to the game. PEDs have become very common in today’s time. Athletes around the world use these products to push the boundaries and to strive for greatness. When people think of PEDs they think it has to do with professional or college students but it has found its way onto high school campuses. High school student want to improve their skill so they can make it to the next level. PED’s among high school students and athletes is becoming more prevalent and has serious consequences in how the drugs affect their bodies.

     Many athletes feel like they have to take steroids to keep up with everyone else and be competitive. ?If you don?t, you weren?t as strong as everyone else, you weren?t as fast as everybody else,? stated Jim Haslett in an interview with Sam Farmer of the LA Times. Haslett, now coach of the New Orleans Saints and former linebacker for the Buffalo Bills, goes on to say, ?That?s the only reason to do it. Everybody?s looking for that competitive edge? (Farmer 1). Aside from professional sports, many high school and college athletes feel the pressure to take steroids to gain an edge. They feel like they won?t be able to perform at the next level without steroids. All many young athlete have to do is look at today?s sports stars to see the size, strength, and speed it takes to be a successful professional athlete. Unfortunately, most of the athletes that the young people are looking at have taken or are currently taking steroids. It is then only rational for kids to think that if they are going to be the best, they need steroids too. Only the best of the best in professional sports get the biggest contract, the top agent, the covers of the magazines, and, seemingly above all, the priciest paycheck. Many athletes feel like they can only lift so much and run so hard until they can?t get any

At the heart of sports is the tradition of competition, rivalry, excellence, winning. But where does "doing whatever it takes to win" to cross the line? In recent years, performance enhancing drugs have been no stranger to professional athletes. Although they make the sport more fun, professional athletes should not be allowed to take steroids because steroids are damaging to the body and steroid users receive an unfair athletic advantage.

In fact, athletes only do PED’s to give themselves an edge, which is unfair to righteous players. In the end, they all eventually hurt themselves and sports will become meaningless. Richard Pound said, ¨Remember athletes don’t take these drugs to level the playing field, they do it to get an advantage… The end game will be an activity that is increasingly violent, extreme, and meaningless.” This leads people to believe if players take PED’s, they are doing it for an unfair advantage and not for health needs.

Through numerous years of professional sports athletes have been caught utilizing performance-enhancing drugs and this had affected athletes in many ways. This picture is saying that athletes do use steroids and that the game is not clean. Professional athletes have to ask themselves would they prepare hard and fair or would they cheat and utilize steroids. These are inquires that competitors must ask themselves consistently, some of them decide to make the best decision while others turn to steroids with expectation that they will become the best in the game. It helps to see how steroid use in professional sports influences both the game and its audience in a positive and negative ways.

Many players throughout the past 10 years have been caught using Performing-enhancing drugs. Changes have been made in the leagues like the NFL, NBA and MLB, but is it enough to make the players stop doing them? I've researched many topics on why certain players decide to use the performing-enhancing drugs with knowing the consequences of getting caught. My biggest question is, if the leagues are trying hard enough to make these players avoid being caught? For example, The MLB gives the players a scheduled date of a drug test and they have to pass it on that day. These performance-enhancing drugs are ruining sports and players should be randomly tested more often, and a user should be banned from the league at

Sometimes professional athletes take a shortcut to gain an edge over competition. The resource that they use to get this edge is called an Anabolic Steroid. Anabolic steroids are synthetic variations of the male sex hormone testosterone. The proper term for these compounds is anabolic-androgenic steroids. Although these athletes gain temporary success, there eventually are negative effects, they could be either long term and short term. In terms of history In the 1956 Olympics, Soviet athletes, especially wrestlers, performed at exceptionally high levels. After learning that those athletes were using testosterone, an American physician named Dr. Zeigler created a more selective form of what we know as anabolic steroids.

Thirdly, many serious side effects and health risks are involved with using PEDs. The benefits of these drugs are really not worth the risks. ‘It is already known that steroids cause liver damage, heart attacks and strokes.’ (Mirkin, 2007) What’s worse, these drugs harm not only the athletes themselves but also harm their children. Mirkin (2007) said that, through a study on the children of the athletes who use PEDs, ‘more than 25 percent had