“Both the general public and non-sports medicine health professionals have recently been made aware of a large use of performance enhancing drugs among sports practicing subjects” This diverse issue is has provoked extensive debate on if Performance enhancing drugs should be legalised many believe that legalisation will give more equal and controlled industry. While others believe that it wll create an advantageous sporting industry with long term medical risks. This debate inevitably leads to the topic question “ Should performance enhancing drugs be legalised?”
The legalisation of performance enhancing drugs used is sport has been viewed as a positive idea buy many, advocates of the legalisation of performance enhancing drugs believe …show more content…
It is identified that illegal performance enhancing drug manufactures are focusing more on creating drugs that are “undetectable not safe”. Moreover it is then stated that if prohibition rules were lifted and had a more directed focus on monitoring intake, a wider array of safer performance enhancers could be manufactured, Along with increased attention to a controlled dosage of medically advisable amounts of performance enhancers amongst athletes, creating a potentially safer and medically adherent environment for elite …show more content…
The use of illegal substances is said to give advantage not equality amongst athletes creating a potentially unequal playing field. Performance enhancing drugs are also said to have increased long term health risks amongst athletes.
The statement that performance enhancing drugs creating a more equal environment amongst athletes coming from less economically prosperous environments is disputed as is it stated that “athletes don't take these drugs to level the playing field, they do it to get an advantage.” This idea of athletes wanting a more advantageous development of ability is said to lead to potential harm of individual athletes increasing the dosage of drugs to medically unsafe levels of performance enhancers “instead of taking 10 grams or 10 cc's or whatever it is, they'll take 20 or 30 or 40, and a vicious circle simply gets
The legalisation of performance enhancing drugs used is sport has been viewed as a positive idea buy many, advocates of the legalisation of performance enhancing drugs believe …show more content…
It is identified that illegal performance enhancing drug manufactures are focusing more on creating drugs that are “undetectable not safe”. Moreover it is then stated that if prohibition rules were lifted and had a more directed focus on monitoring intake, a wider array of safer performance enhancers could be manufactured, Along with increased attention to a controlled dosage of medically advisable amounts of performance enhancers amongst athletes, creating a potentially safer and medically adherent environment for elite …show more content…
The use of illegal substances is said to give advantage not equality amongst athletes creating a potentially unequal playing field. Performance enhancing drugs are also said to have increased long term health risks amongst athletes.
The statement that performance enhancing drugs creating a more equal environment amongst athletes coming from less economically prosperous environments is disputed as is it stated that “athletes don't take these drugs to level the playing field, they do it to get an advantage.” This idea of athletes wanting a more advantageous development of ability is said to lead to potential harm of individual athletes increasing the dosage of drugs to medically unsafe levels of performance enhancers “instead of taking 10 grams or 10 cc's or whatever it is, they'll take 20 or 30 or 40, and a vicious circle simply gets