Performance Enhancing Drugs Should Be Banned Essay

Since the beginning of time, man has always been trying to find the competitive edge over one another. But today man’s desire to win is so high, that it seems that they would do whatever it takes. Performance enhancing drugs consist of human growth hormone that increases body muscle mass. Athletes secretly use these enhancements to improve their performance. Athletes should be disciplined severely if they choose to use performance enhancing drugs. The athlete should be banned from the sport permanently on their second offense.

First, performance enhancing drugs give an unfair advantage. They give the athletes who use them an advantage over athletes who do not use them. “The wrongness of drug-cheating in sport does not, therefore, rest only on level-playing-field considerations or unfair advantage” (Mumford 2). Using performance enhancing drugs to improve your athletic ability is like copying someone else's work and claiming it as your own. It may not seem that way, but it is the same concept and has the same outcome for the …show more content…
Some people believe that it is just too hard to catch the dopers. “In many cases, as Brignole describes, "[Agencies] are unable to stay ahead of the drug makers” (Wang 2). With all the medical enhancements the drug makers are finding a way to make the PEDs undetectable and instead of making them safe for users. The argument is that it is too hard to stay ahead of the drug makers because they are always finding a way to make the drugs undetectable. Also doctors believe that PEDs could be used to treat medical conditions found in athletes. A lot of athletes suffer long term injuries that require surgery and recovery that may take longer than the season lasts. But some PEDs allow athletes to recover quicker, so that means they can play and the GMs are not paying a player who is sitting in the