In professional sport, the past 15 years have been corrupted by our athlete's use of performance enhancing drugs or also known as doping. The competition has become so severe that it is now more common for athletes to ingest PED's in order to gain an advantage over their competitors without worrying about the effect the drug could possible have on the body of their body or the influence it has on younger generations. Steroids, the most prevalent used performance-enhancing drug, are an artificial re-makes of the male hormone testosterone. The injection of steroids and the use of other PEDs, performance-enhancing drugs, has become a very debatable and controversial topic of todays sports. Everyone associated with this issue agrees that these enhancers are dangerous and not healthy for athletes to use, but some tend to claim that it’s the athlete’s life and he/she should be able to choose if they want to use those
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When in fact PED use has been occurring though out history starting back as early as the time of ancient Greece. As we see in this academic study, published in National Center of Biotechnology Information, that,” Ancient Greek Olympic athletes dating back to the third century BC used various brandy and wine concoctions and ate hallucinogenic mushrooms and sesame seeds to enhance performance. Various plants were used to improve speed and endurance, while others were taken to mask pain, allowing injured athletes to continue competing,” (Reardon & Creado, 2014, 96). Even though doping was prevalent back in those times it was also considered to be unethical and if caught the athlete would then be sold into slavery. These trends didn’t stop or subdue in this era, but rather progressed into new and more complex methods of use, along with the help of modern day
When in fact PED use has been occurring though out history starting back as early as the time of ancient Greece. As we see in this academic study, published in National Center of Biotechnology Information, that,” Ancient Greek Olympic athletes dating back to the third century BC used various brandy and wine concoctions and ate hallucinogenic mushrooms and sesame seeds to enhance performance. Various plants were used to improve speed and endurance, while others were taken to mask pain, allowing injured athletes to continue competing,” (Reardon & Creado, 2014, 96). Even though doping was prevalent back in those times it was also considered to be unethical and if caught the athlete would then be sold into slavery. These trends didn’t stop or subdue in this era, but rather progressed into new and more complex methods of use, along with the help of modern day