Performance-enhancing drugs

Performance Enhancing Drugs. One of the most popular topics in all of sports, particularly baseball. It’s been around the game for the past few decades, and possibly even before that. When you think of Performance Enhancing Drugs, or PED’s for short, you think of a drug that are considered illegal, narcotic, or even dangerous, depending on how much you use. This stuff is no joke. These drugs are also considered an abusive substance, meaning you can do more harm to other people, other than…

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…

(Babe) Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and Lou Gehrig have been viewed as role models who possess superhuman traits. This view has been tainted by one simple factor in modern society. Performance-enhancing drugs have spurred a large epidemic of abuse and illegal use which has women into the fabric of our most beloved pastime. These drugs have now taken away the beauty and glory of natural talent and hard work. Fans and sports enthusiasts now question whether a player is their hero or a common fraud. The…

create identification? My topic pertains to the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in professional sports, so while I doubt anyone has any personal experience with these drugs, I think they have a general understanding of the topic. I am, however, confident that everyone has played a sport at some time, which may give them some additional…

Olympics and performance enhancing drugs Let me get this straight, performance enhancing drugs are not the answer and should never be the answer. Throughout recent years the olympics have been a prime time for “doping”. Performance enhancing drugs have been used throughout sports for nearly half a century. Athletes should not be allowed to take performance enhancing drugs in the olympics. Performance enhancing drugs are not healthy. It should come as no surprise that performance enhancing…

MLB has attempted to set a level playing field by testing for drug use and suspending those found guilty. I believe it to be a noble effort, but one that is clearly not working. From the lips of Chris Smith, journalist for Forbes Magazine, and self-proclaimed PED’s advocate: “If we really want to level the playing field, it may be time to head in the other direction: legalize performance enhancers.” Chris believes that legalizing the drugs would not only even the playing field, but play would be…

Why performance enhancing drugs should not be banned in sports. Performance enhancing drugs, such as anabolic steroids, blood doping and hGH(human Growth Hormone) have been found to be used in sports since as early as 776BCLee, (Yu-Hsuan, 2006), where the Ancient Greeks used opium juice in the early Olympics for an advantage in their sport (Sportsanddrugs.procon.org, 2016). PED’s have the potential to drastically alter the state of the human body(Health.nsw.gov.au, 2016). Athletes in today’s…

Performance Enhancing Drugs In Baseball Why do baseball players use performance-enhancing drugs? We know that Major League Baseball players have been using performance-enhancing drugs. The real question here is why performance-enhancing drugs are bad for the sport. Do they affect baseball or do they make it more entertaining? Performance-enhancing drugs make baseball a better sport, should PEDs be legal in baseball? Why is there so much controversy? The offensive performance of hitters in…

Performance Enhancing Drugs in Professional Sports? David Wells, a well-known pitcher, who had played in the MLB (Major League Baseball) for 20 years stated, “There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn 't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves…” The use of performance enhancing drugs, also referred to as doping, is a highly-debated topic in sports. Athletes have been using drugs since the first Olympic games in ancient Greece. But due to…

sport they play. Steroids, for example, are a PED that increases muscle development, but what if the sport has nothing to do with strength. In “Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Be Legalized”, Stephen Wang agrees with this motion when he states that, “In sports such as baseball that require skills other than just endurance . . . strength-increasing drugs should not be banned” (Wang). Gary Roberts, editor and chief of Sports Lawyer, backs his argument by adding that, “Home runs are hit only…