Use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport

steroids in sports, there are several disagreements. While some believe that steroids should be allowed in sports, others maintain that they should only be allowed in certain circumstances. Despite objections, steroids should not be allowed in sports under any circumstances. Athletes should be allowed to take steroids in sports in order to make the game more exciting and they do not increase…

recognize these and use PEDs as a scapegoat. Also, in the 2009 Hall of Fame, two members of the inducting class, Ferguson Jenkins and Paul Molitor were busted for using cocaine in the 1980s. They are only but a few of what is sure to be many players who have been caught using illegal drugs that are now inducted into the hall of fame. If players who were caught with these drugs are still eligible, why shouldn’t players who admitted to using PEDs be able to (Chafets 2009)? The use of PEDs…

Within the NFL and the MLB Steroids and performance enhancement drugs, PEDS, have been banned in the National Football League and in Major League Baseball since the early 1980’s and readjusted in the early 2000’s (Kelley). Players’ know about the stipulations of which exact drugs are allowed and which are banned within their league, but still ten NFL players were banned within the 2015 season for the use of PEDS (Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Fast Facts). Recently, allegations…

individual in order to excel at his or her sport and best the competition. A bodybuilder’s goal may be to isolate certain muscle groups and maximize his growth and definition in order to achieve higher scores at competitions. An average gym attendant’s goals may be any combination of these. With that said, for decades sports athletes, body builders, general gym members, models and even Hollywood film stars have been using P.E.D.s, performance enhancing drugs, in order to achieve their…

The sport that evokes the fondest memories among Americans is baseball. So many people have played this game during their childhood and have become invested in it, that it has become known as the national pastime in America. Baseball originated from the British game “rounders” before the American Civil War. In 1871, the first national baseball league came into America. (Baseball History’s Effects on America) When baseball first originated, the players possessed natural skills and strength that…

Applying performance enhancing drugs to competitive racing animals such as racehorses or greyhounds, can be a huge temptation for trainers whether legal or illegal. Trainers have always looked for an advantage against their competitors, therefore they will do whatever it takes to be the best and even win. Handlers, veterinarians, and jockeys are also involved in this scheme. (The Horseracing Industry, 2015) A various number of these drugs is to mask pain from injured horses or to increase the…

Steroid use for high school sports can have many negative affects on your body, that people don’t realize. The human body reacts differently to different things. People take steroids to help their performance in sports. They may also take them to enlarge their muscles. What they don’t know is that it has more than just positive effects. They are too caught up in their appearance to even realize all of the side effects it can put out. Males are proven to take most of the blame for the use of…

various sports and effects the health of athletes everywhere, this proclaimed disease is the use of steroids across many platforms of sports that threatens the existence of Americas great past times. Steroid cessation has become a prevalent problem for athletes all around, not only do other players influence each other into using them but there are stories of managers telling their players to “juice up” before games or they will be cut. This type of behavior is extremely unacceptable in our…

Olympic Committee (IOC), doping is defined as “the administration of or use by a competing athlete of any substance foreign to the body or of any physiological substance taken in abnormal quantity or taken by an abnormal route of entry into the body with the sole intention of increasing in an artificial and unfair manner his/her performance in competition.” Most experts agree that issues regarding the use of performance enhancing substances have gotten worse since the 1960s because the number…

involved the taking of performance enhancing drugs. In cycling this is referred to specifically as doping. This is so prominent that “from 1960 to 1967 no professional cyclist would take part in an important race without being doped” (Brewer, 2002). Getting to professional level is based on intrinsic motivation, but being successful is where extrinsic motivation comes into play. It is common to hear cyclists being pressured into doping in order to maintain their performance. Extrinsic factors…