Performance-enhancing drugs

Performance-enhancing drug regulation and law, a crucial matter involving twenty-first-century sports analyzers and health experts, sparked a national dispute. Henceforward the Ancient Greeks held the first Olympic Games, performance-enhancing drugs destroyed the values of professional sports; ethics, respect, fair play, and honesty (Lavin 6). The legalization of performance-enhancing drugs will negatively influence an athlete's life. Performance-enhancing drugs jeopardize the health of users.…

Are taking performance enhancing drugs (PED’s) really worth the risk? This is a question many of athletes have to seriously ask themselves and weigh the consequences. Many athletes don’t ask actually themselves this question and just go and take these drugs. Some athletes don’t even get told that they are taking PED’s. Other cases involve team doctors recommending players to take these drugs, having no regard for the player's health. So the big question is should performance enhancing drugs be…

Performance-enhancing substances Performance-enhancing substances is one of the most important concerns for athletes till this day. These substances are outlawed in every league, but athletes still find a way to cheat and continue to find ways to get an edge over their competitors. These substances are used to improve performances of athletes and gives them an advantage. When taking these drugs it affects your body in many ways as growth of muscles but doesn’t change the fact that is is still…

Athletes and Performance- Enhancing Drugs Performance- enhancing drugs are pharmaceutical products or illegal drugs that are used by sports people to gain a competitive advantage over those who do not use them. Performance enhancing drugs commonly used include anabolic androgenic steroids, testosterone, human growth hormone, erythropoietin and other androgens (Grace & Baker, 2012). These drugs for example anabolic androgenic steroids imitate the activity of natural testosterone and lead to fast…

against your beloved sport, being booed on stage thus destroying your dignity. Athletes take performance enhancing drugs to gain fame and make themselves look better than other athletes. Should athletes take a risky gamble and pay millions of dollars to take performance enhancing drugs? The answer is no, athletes are wasting millions to make the entertaining game they desire for unfair. If…

Performance enhancing drugs are substances that improve an athlete’s performance. Performance enhancing drugs enlarge muscle size and increase the blood’s oxygen carrying capacity. Although the drug makes a substantial difference in athletic performance, the use of the drug can be medically dangerous. Steroids are outlawed by organizations that govern professional sports. The different substances of PED’s are stimulants, anabolic steroids and erythropoietin. Athletes take these drugs to make…

the serious problem of performance- enhancing drug use in professional and amateur sports. In the world of sports, performance enhancing drugs and blood doping can cause health problems, damages to…

Performance Enhancing Drugs As people go through life they will be faced with making decisions. These decisions can sometimes be hard to make as we must decide if the choice being made is good or bad. When faced with an ethical dilemma one must look at both options and determine what is right from wrong. Performance enhancing drugs is an issue that many athletes will be faced with. I will look over this ethical dilemma and how my Christian worldview would be influenced. The morals we live…

In this essay I will inform you about Performance Enhancing Drugs(PEDS) in sports, such as, Anabolic steroids, Human Growth Hormone(HGH), and Creatine. I will tell you about what it does to you like risks and how it is a PED. Steroids are the most common type of PEDS especially Anabolic Steroids, which are synthetic testosterone, which increases muscle mass. The risks for males are: prominent breasts, baldness, shrunken testicles, infertility, impotence, and prostate gland enlargement. Woman…

Performance Enhancing Substances: Do They Really Help You Perform Better? Have you ever wondered why a pitcher in baseball throws over one hundred mph every pitch. It is possible but is very unlikely. This is usually caused by Performance enhancing substances or drugs (PED’s). PED’s are commonly used by MLB players. These drugs boost your testosterone level which help you perform better. The use of these drugs also have a downside to them. Although banning these drugs would take away the…