The Benefits Of Performance Enhancing Drugs

The benefits that performance enhancing substances offer to competitors in the sports world are plentiful. Drugs can target each individual area of an athlete’s body and manipulate it for sporting advantage. Drugs can increase people’s strength, muscle mass, speed, energy, focus levels as well as ease the takers blood pressure, heart rate and overall stress. These enlarged athletic capabilities can be abused in different sports such as the strength of an ice hockey player or the eased tension of a golfer. Every single sport in existence can gain benefit in some way from taking drugs. It gives the consumer a clear advantage in their field over their competitor, giving them a higher chance to win. It does not necessarily give an unfair advantage …show more content…
Just as drugs have positive effects on the body, they also have various nasty side effects. Beta Blockers are used to lower athlete’s heart rate and stress yet can cause headaches, muscle and stomach cramps, nausea, blurred vision, and fatigue; a number of things that would incidentally raise one’s stress and heart rate. Drugs have negative short term and long term effects on the consumer’s health; these long terms effects taking effect because the athlete desired victory in a short term sporting competition. Drugs do give an unfair advantage to either side of a playing field. Athletes do not take drugs to level the playing field, they take it illegally to gain an advantage and therefor, cheat. They take them because they desire to win no matter the cost. If drugs became legal, athletes and their competitors would not only compete in sport, but compete in their dosage to gain the higher advantage, staring a vicious cycle that would end in over dosage. They eliminate sportsmanship and create tension between players. There is no respect in sport involving drug abuse. Fans are strayed away from sport games and athletes are seen as fake cheats and no longer role