Introduction PEDs are performance enhancing drugs used by athletes to help them build muscle and perform outstandingly. “Anabolic steroids, when combined with vigorous physical training, do enhance athletic performance by making users bigger, stronger, and faster-while also speeding up their recovery time after strenuous exercise” (Mitten, 2008, p.61). Athletes feel that they have to use performance-enhancing drugs to be able to compete with the athletes that already use them because of the advantage it gives them (Drugs and Athletes, 2016). Deciding whether drug testing athletes for PEDs is a pro or con is a controversy in high schools and Olympics. Drug testing athletes is important because using PEDs is against the rules, PEDs have deadly side effects, and PEDs give athletes an unfair advantage, however some people believe that drug testing is defective.
Drug Testing Athletes “Pharmacological performance-enhancing substances are banned because of their adverse effects on both athletes’ health and competitive integrity” (Mitten, 2008, p.62). “Approximately one percent of the 11,000 National Collegiate Athletic Association student-athletes who randomly are tested each year [as of 2005] come up …show more content…
“Government should be kept out of family decision-making and parental responsibility, including the issue of student drug use. Because drug tests for all students would violate many edicts set forth in the U.S. Constitution (such as the presumption of innocence and the need for probable cause before conducting searches), court and school officials used a pretense of safety to begin testing student athletes for drugs” (Saunders, 2010, p.1). According to Debra Saunders (2010), parents have the right to drug test their kids if needed, but schools should not intervene in family
Drug Testing Athletes “Pharmacological performance-enhancing substances are banned because of their adverse effects on both athletes’ health and competitive integrity” (Mitten, 2008, p.62). “Approximately one percent of the 11,000 National Collegiate Athletic Association student-athletes who randomly are tested each year [as of 2005] come up …show more content…
“Government should be kept out of family decision-making and parental responsibility, including the issue of student drug use. Because drug tests for all students would violate many edicts set forth in the U.S. Constitution (such as the presumption of innocence and the need for probable cause before conducting searches), court and school officials used a pretense of safety to begin testing student athletes for drugs” (Saunders, 2010, p.1). According to Debra Saunders (2010), parents have the right to drug test their kids if needed, but schools should not intervene in family