Should athletes use performance enhancing drugs ? Man has been trying to improve themselves physically through training and eating healthy for years but the discovery of performance enhancing drugs changed the game for everyone. One after another new ways of improving an athlete’s straight and injuries with minimal training and maximal improvement. Some athletes and trainers looked to drugs to give them the upper hand on their opposition. Some people look at using drugs to build bigger and better
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Research Paper Performance Enhancing Drugs Maximilian H. Szeto Vancouver Island University November 26‚ 2014 Instructor: Richard Arnold Engl 125: Research Paper Performance Enhancing Drugs These days‚ it seems like performance enhancing drugs are the norm in the professional sports worlds. Whether it is football or basketball players‚ many professional athletes are getting exposed to PEDs. As a result‚ a lot of athletes are consuming performance enhancing drugs because athletes
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ENC 1102 Ms. Politte February 27‚ 2014 Risk vs. Reward: Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs The steroids era in not only Major League Baseball‚ but in all professional sports really began in the early 1990s. In MLB‚ the commissioner‚ Byron Johnson‚ turned a blind eye to the players who were using PED’s because he wanted to draw fans back to the stands to see more homeruns. This worked for a while and then the use became illegal. Then MLB started testing their players in the early 2000s because
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Why do athletes take performance enhancing drugs? There are many reasons. These range from the athlete being driven by the craving for success and the rewards that come with it‚ to the sheer desire to reach the goal that they set when they first started out in their sport e.g. win Olympic gold. The athlete may not be good enough to achieve these targets through the professional athlete lifestyle alone‚ and so turn to performance enhancing drugs in order to do so. From a philosophical point of view
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The Dangers of Enhancing Drugs in Sports From basketball to football to gymnastics‚ enhancing drugs have changed the face of sports as we know it. Performance enhancement drugs‚ like anabolic steroids‚ may help athletes perform better by giving them greater muscle strength; however‚ these athletes may not realize that these illegal drugs are highly dangerous. Is it rally worth risking ones life or health just to win that game or medal? Performance enhancing drugs are substances
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uses a drug that enhances performance it is very unfair‚ but performance enhancing drugs are banned which is the most important thing to consider. If something is not allowed to be used then there is most likely a good reason. When you do Performance enhancing drugs‚ you are giving yourself an very unfair advantage because you will be able to reach your goals more quickly than others who are not using performance enhancing drugs. On top of this every single sport has banned all performance enhancing
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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. Should Performance Enhancing Drugs be Legalised in Professional Sports? For years there has been an ongoing argument about whether performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be legalised in professional
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athletes alike: performance-enhancing drugs. These drugs come in substances‚ chemical agents and are used in medical procedures which provide the user with an advantage in athletic performance (Encarta‚ 2007.) These drugs have been a very dark shadow over sports since they came into athletics. Recently‚ the Tour de France and Major League Baseball have seen major cases in which star athletes in their sports have been questioned if those drugs had been used. These types of drugs are bad for sports
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Judging Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs Most people know steroids are wrong because of the negative side effects‚ but what about a drug that could improve a person’s attention? It’s not clear whether healthy individuals should or should not use medication or drugs to improve cognitive abilities such as working memory or attention. At their genesis‚ cognitive-enhancing drugs such as Provigil or Ritalin were developed to aid patients suffering from narcolepsy‚ Alzheimer’s disease or ADHD with their cognitive
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Alex Rodriguez‚ a renowned MLB Seattle Mariners and Texas Ranger player‚ was found in the middle of a drug scandal during 3013 when he was accused of injecting performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) into his body. The Miami Times acted as old-fashioned muckrackers by revealing Biogenesis‚ an anti-aging clinic supervised by Tony Bosch. Bosch and his medical practice was exposed as “PED peddlers” that attracted major league baseball players from various MLB teams. Porter Fischer‚ a former employee at Biogenesis
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