Drug Use in Sport Should Be Allowed by All Athletes
PASS Assessment
PASS Assessment
Year 10 Knox Grammar School
Year 10
Year 10 Knox Grammar School
Year 10
Name Of Drug | Performance | Short Term Effects | Long Term Effects | Human Growth Hormone | Peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals. | Increasingly masculine facial appearance and excessive sweating. It can also cause arthralgias, which is unusual bone growth. Since HGH affects your hormones, it can also cause impotence in men and menstrual problems in women. | HGH may raise your risk of osteoporosis, cardiomyopathy and diabetes ; however, more research needs to be done before its long-term effects are known.
| Anabolic Steroids | Endurance
Endurance
They increase protein within cells, especially in skeletal. | Testicular atrophy or the shrinking of the testicles, reduced sperm count, infertility, baldness, and the development of breasts. | significant risk of suffering irreversible side effects, including stunted growth, accelerated |
Strength
Strength
Name Of Drug | Performance | Short Term Effects | Long Term Effects | Artificial Oxygen Carriers | Artificial oxygen carriers are man-made substances that can do the work of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in your blood. | Immune system, cardiovascular | Iron overload, kidney damage | Blood Doping | Blood doping is the practice of infusing whole blood into an athlete in order to increase oxygen delivery to the tissues | Infection, Cardiovascular | High blood pressure, blood clots, heart failure and stroke |
“Drug use in sport should be allowed by all athletes?”
The Australian Sports Foundation uses the Australian Sports Commission definition of sport which states that sport is defined as: “a human activity capable of achieving a result requiring physical exertion and/or physical skill, which, by its nature and organisation, is competitive and is generally accepted as being a sport.”
PASS Assessment
Year 10 Knox Grammar School
Year 10
Year 10 Knox Grammar School
Year 10
Name Of Drug | Performance | Short Term Effects | Long Term Effects | Human Growth Hormone | Peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals. | Increasingly masculine facial appearance and excessive sweating. It can also cause arthralgias, which is unusual bone growth. Since HGH affects your hormones, it can also cause impotence in men and menstrual problems in women. | HGH may raise your risk of osteoporosis, cardiomyopathy and diabetes ; however, more research needs to be done before its long-term effects are known.
| Anabolic Steroids | Endurance
Endurance
They increase protein within cells, especially in skeletal. | Testicular atrophy or the shrinking of the testicles, reduced sperm count, infertility, baldness, and the development of breasts. | significant risk of suffering irreversible side effects, including stunted growth, accelerated |
Strength
Strength
Name Of Drug | Performance | Short Term Effects | Long Term Effects | Artificial Oxygen Carriers | Artificial oxygen carriers are man-made substances that can do the work of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in your blood. | Immune system, cardiovascular | Iron overload, kidney damage | Blood Doping | Blood doping is the practice of infusing whole blood into an athlete in order to increase oxygen delivery to the tissues | Infection, Cardiovascular | High blood pressure, blood clots, heart failure and stroke |
“Drug use in sport should be allowed by all athletes?”
The Australian Sports Foundation uses the Australian Sports Commission definition of sport which states that sport is defined as: “a human activity capable of achieving a result requiring physical exertion and/or physical skill, which, by its nature and organisation, is competitive and is generally accepted as being a sport.”