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    been using drugs to enhance and provide better performance for themselves and for their team. Most drugs were introduced to players by fellow teammates and team doctors. Expanding from professional sports to minor league sports, including college and high school sports.The use of drugs isn’t as prevalent in the Midwest as it is to the East and West coast. The act to stop the drug process in sports isn’t very effective because the expansion of drugs and the simplicity of obtaining drugs common worldly

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    Drugs are a rapid problem growing all over the place from the streets of Major cities to the locker room of many Major league teams. Drugs come in all forms, shapes, and sizes Drugs are all over the place. Almost everyone has taken some kind of drug before, maybe it was a prescription from your doctor but they are still drugs. Did you know almost four percent of America, America are addicted to pain relievers. This is a drug you can literally go into a regular store like Wal-Mart and buy, these and

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    Drugs Taking its Toll Lebron James once stated, “but sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out”(Pilon). The access to drugs in today’s world is becoming easier and easier. Studies show numerous athletes from other countries travel to the United States to buy stimulants that are illegal in their countries, to be used in competitions(Scott). In addition, games are supposed to be entertaining but how could they be when rules are broken and

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    competitive sports, they have tried to gain every possible edge against their opponents. After all, the desire for any and every competitive advantage is a completely understandable element of human nature. Not surprisingly, there are records of the use of performance enhancing drugs going as far back as ancient times. Despite this long and storied history of performance enhancing drugs in sports, doping is arguably the most controversial and most talked-about issue in modern sports. It is an issue

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    Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Athletes use performance enhancing drugs to boost their game. The professionals who use these drugs are ruining the integrity of the game. Many people don’t understand why professional athletes would go to such extreme measures to be better when they have already proven themselves. Athletes are just taking away from their natural ability by using these dangerous drugs. The risk of using performance enhancing drugs is a lot greater than the reward, because an

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    Problem statement doping. Performance enhancing drug is now a universal issue that is destroying international sports competition around the world. For several years the IOC (International Olympic Committee) has tried to prevent this problem from spreading with very little positive result. A large variety of actions were taken so as to help to eradicate this issue. Actions like testing ,supportive medical treatment and educational programs had very little effect on doping. On the other hand professional

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    athlete on an Olympic team is found guilty of taking performance enhancing drugs, the entire team may be disqualified and forced to return the medals they may have won? People who want to win are taking “win at any cost” matters to a slightly better edge. Doping in sports is ruining and going to keep ruining sports, because it causes coercion, can ruin athletes’ lives, and can keep players out of the hall of fame. Doping in sports is going to cause coercion, which means athletes feel like they are forced

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    Proponents of accepting performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sports argue that their harmful health effects have been overstated, that health risks are an athlete’s decision to make, that using drugs is part of the evolution of sports much like improved training techniques and new technologies, and that efforts to keep athletes from using PEDs are overzealous, unproductive, unfairly administered, and bound to fail. The spirit of sport is the celebration of the human spirit, the body and the mind

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    performance enhancing drugs. The debate on whether or not performance enhancing substances should be allowed in professional sports has been going on for years, decades even. Many believe that using steroids and other performance enhancers should automatically disqualify an athlete from ever being able to be a member of the Hall of Fame, in sports in general, not just in Major League Baseball. However, there is an argument to be made to make the use of performance enhancing drugs legal in all of professional

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    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

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