Drugs in the sports world as you can see tarnish gameplay and damages a lot of athletes careers just off of one bad decision that they decided to make. The athletes discussed didn’t even need to do none of the following drugs and they could of have a the same successful careers by just working harder and having more faith in their selves. Athletes should go the extra mile to promoting not to do drugs to influence the younger generations and to also go the distance to influencing their own teammates. Drugs causes the downfall of athletes that had so much potential in their careers. The side effects of all drugs are horrible and no athletes should not want to experience those side effects. It’s always better to actually train properly and develop your body naturally instead of putting drugs in you system because at the end of the day no sport last you a lifetime. Sports are made for people to learn valuable lessons in life and to have fun with it. Putting drugs in your systems to gain a competitive edge in sports is pointless because of how they can cause you to have lifetime problems just because you wanted a bigger edge. Life is bigger than sports and it’s important that the youth and athletes know that it shouldn’t be a time where you need drugs to be dominant in sports. There are plenty of athletes that are very talented and don’t need any drugs to maintain their great performances. Drugs will always remain a…
Furthermore, everybody knows that drugs are harmful things. They make you addicted to them and then slowly erode your body of its health. So it might be true that the usage of sport may improve the quality of sport and bring competition to a higher level, the usage of drugs for this will cut…
As children, many people are introduced to the famous quote by late National Football League coach, Vince Lombardi, which is "winning isn 't everything; it 's the only thing" (Voy 204). Sports have always been about winning; however, some professional and amateur athletes take this simple saying too literally and it changes their outlook on their profession. As high school and even middle school athletes, they start to take drugs in order to be accepted, or to better their performance on the playing field (Louria n.pag). Once theses athletes reach the college level; they experiment, and are surrounded by even more drugs in order to get any advantage. It is not fair that one athlete can work hard in order to improve his performance, but then have another athlete improve more than him due to being wired on cocaine or bulked up on steroids. Also, Robert Voy states that drug use today is the biggest threat to the Olympics ideal, thus the Olympics and many other professional organizations are turning to drug testing. Testing is a huge controversy today because many believe that it violates one 's right of privacy; however, if there is no testing, many athletes will continue to have an unfair advantage to non drug users (180). Furthermore, it injures the user because it will result in mood changes, and it will hurt their health, if not immediately, then it will later on in their life. The chance of being caught using drugs is so small compared to the achievements one will have while using drugs which is so vast. No athlete should have an unfair advantage, these advantages only promote drug use, which many athletes believe it is a necessary means in today 's time. The only way to have the use of drugs decrease is to have mandatory drug testing across the board for all athletes.…
Drug testing should be allowed because it provides a fair playing ground for all high school athletes. Steroids give athletes the chance to get bigger and faster. This is unfair to other athletes that actually work hard to improve themselves physically by training and weightlifting. There is a “relentless pressure for high school athletes to win” (Scelfo) The pressure may be so great for high School…
The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), established in 1999, main focus is to oversee drug testing and to partner up with Olympic organizers to help regulate testing at major sporting events. Throughout the years, athletes have been using a wide spread of illegal banned drugs and substances to help them perform well during sporting events. The WADA currently has a list of over 200 banned substances that prohibit athletes from using. The list include substances such as blood doping, and Performance Enchanced Drugs (PED). The main reason why athletes use illegal banned substances is due to the amount of pressure from the team and fans to win. Like stated earlier, countries rely on sporting events for their wealth, and if their athletes and teams…
I am writing an opinion piece about the argument in today’s sport world, the question, should performance enhancing drugs (PED’s) be legalised in professional sports? I am hoping to pull sport enthusiasts from the ‘ban doping’ side of the argument and look at the full picture long term. I will do this by showing them the positives of legalising PED’s.…
There are many factors associated with why performance-enhancing drugs shouldn't be used in sports one of the main association is health risks. Performance-enhancing drugs should not be used in the sport because as they use the enhancing drug they are destroying the sport fair play and roll models in other people's eyes. Enhancing your body with drugs may lead up to overdosing or illnesses however If everybody took these performance-enhancing drugs everyone would be unbeatable and it would be unfair to the people who are allergic to the drugs but they still want to play the sport, but can never win because all the other people who take the drugs will guaranty win. Another reason enhancing drugs shouldn't be used in the sport because if our…
Student athletes should get drug tested before they get to play the sport they want to play. If a student athlete get drug tested it increases their chances of going to colleges, if the athlete does not get drug tested then him or her will have serious problems in the future like poor academic outcomes, and finally is that schools are making their campus a drug and smoke campus.…
What if people used performance enhancing drugs in sports? Are there any side effects from using PEDs? Should professional athletes use them? What if I use them just to be a little better in sports? Many people would argue that legalizing performance enhancing drugs will make professional and recreational sports better. They think sports as a whole will be raised to the next level of entertainment. Despite this belief, sports can only be brought down from the use of these drugs; if an athlete has no skill or natural ability performance enhancing drugs will only hurt them.…
Many people do not see the severity of drug use in professional and High School athletics. Drug use in professional athletics is looked upon as somewhat of a serious problem, but also very discrete and low key. Every once in a while and individual might see a prominent figure in a certain sport being reprimanded for the use of an outlawed drug. However , that athlete may just be one of the many who happened to get caught. Athletes today seem to find no moral problem with using performance-enhancing drugs, or in other words, cheating. Athletes feel that because they are "stars" there should be no repercussions for their illegal activity. Today, drug use in sports has reached enormous proportions in society and destroying athletics from the ground up. The use of steroids and other performance enhancement drugs also effects athletes at the high school level. It does not matter how good the athlete is, a zero-tolerance policy should be in place at all levels of competition.…
Nearly one in every ten retired NFL players has admitted to using steroids or “doping” during their professional career. Numerous other competitive sports have athletes repeatedly pumping strength-building substances into their bodies from day to day. The harsh consequences and possible suspension from the game does not faze them as they continue to put themselves in danger of the deadly side effects.…
When watching someone participate in any sport, the audience thinks about how much effort was put into practicing, and not what the player smoked to gain their superhuman stamina. In sports, the competitors need to practice to become better, not default to who has the money to buy the best drugs. Performance enhancing drugs may help during a couple of games, but it’s not worth putting so many lives at risk. Forest Tennant JR., who is an NFL drug adviser, has estimated that half of all professional athletes have been exposed to drugs in their careers.…
1995, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton that stated that schools do have a right to test athletes for the presence of drugs. The debate intensified in 2002, when the Supreme Court in Board of Education v. Earls narrowly ruled that it is lawful for schools to give random drug tests to students involved in other extracurricular activities, not only athletics. (Sutten, 1)…
They should be tested every other week or at least once a month. Some might argue that it is an invasion of privacy, but in reality they are just afraid of being caught for doing illegal activities. For one, the consumption of alcohol is illegal for minors, and all high school students are under age. Secondly, athletes represent the school they play for, and they don’t want to be know as the guy or girl that got blacked out drunk the sunday before the game. And last but not least, taking drugs can have an immense negative impact on the student's health. According to, the illustration–How Drugs Affect Sport Performance–on Richard L. Worsnop article it states that although Amphetamines can, “[h]eighten alertness and postpones onset of fatigue,” it can result in long term consequences like, “[f]eelings of anxiety and restlessness, accompanied by rapid heartbeat and breathing; [and] risk of addiction.” Many of drugs taken have similar effect on the body, it enhances the athletes performances, they recover faster, and even let them gain muscle mass, etc. On the other hand, they all have worse long term effects then the temporary effect they athletes do them for. For example, Beta-blockers can cause asthma, erythropoietin can result in a stroke or heart attack, while steroids can cause liver and heart disease, and even sterility (Worsnop). Four year varsity basketball player, Kristopher Nicolas states, “I personally have never taken drugs, but I know of teammates that have. I believe that if one truly loves the sport than they don’t any enhancements to be better at it, it has to come from one's inner motivation. A good pep talk before the game is more than enough to motivate me.” Besides the fact, that alcohol and drug use can have a serious impact on one's health, drugs are illegal, and any student caught should not be allowed to part of a…
Drug abuse is a major problem in our society as a whole and increasingly within our youth. In recent years, many school districts have implemented student athlete drug testing programs within their schools. Athletes were targeted because student athletics are voluntary and the "athletes are often held to higher standards than other students, keeping their grades up for example" (Tantillo, Wen & Morgo, 1995, p. A22).…