Effects of Performance Enhancing Drugs on Athletes The risks of taking performance -enhancing drugs to improve an athletes’ performance outweighs the benefits. Along with the fact that all performance-enhancing drugs are illegal to use in sports‚ there are also serious side effects and addiction risks to the drugs. Athletes may choose from a variety of drugs and each may achieve different benefits. However‚ most of the time‚ athletes are uneducated in their decision to take the drugs‚ which can
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Performance-enhancing Drugs – Sophie Fawkner Performance-enhancing drugs are chemically made substances that improve or alter the performance of any consumer. In sport‚ anabolic steroids are the most commonly abused drug. Performance-enhancing drugs are not always beneficial‚ as they come at a cost‚ in more ways than one‚ and there are many potential risks. Athletes‚ bodybuilders‚ students or military personnel may use the drugs. They are not illegal‚ but they are also not permitted while taking
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Taking PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) are a big temptation in an athlete’s life. Taking PEDs is considered cheating for sports and could have severe consequences. But just like cheating in school‚ some people will think it is okay to do it and they don’t care if they do it and get caught or not. Taking PEDs is also known as doping. Doping originated by a Nazi doctor to make them more aggressive in the battlefield( Jacobson ) . Usually‚ athletes are taking PEDs to help their performance for whatever
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use of performance enhancing substances be accepted for athletic use? While the opposition will argue for the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletes‚ use of these substances must be banned from competition because it damages the honesty of athletic competition‚ provides an unfair advantage to athletes who train clean‚ and can have numerous detrimental effects to the user. Ultimately‚ it is imperative that stricter limits are put on athletes which bans the use of performance enhancing
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getting stronger‚ faster‚ and ultimately genetically kore advanced it gets hard for anyone in specific to really stand out and compete. To achieve these goals many athletes will take extreme measures and turn to performance enhancing drugs such as steroids. The use of performance enhancing drugs is becoming more and more popular among athletes‚ many of them don’t
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The athletes may have gotten more talented‚ but the doctors and performance enhancing drugs have also become more advanced as the years passed as well. Performance enhancing drugs have impacted sports in a way that nobody seems to realize‚ and they will continue to do that for the many years to come in the future years to come. Performance enhancing drugs‚ or “PED’s” are any substance taken by an athlete to improve his/her performance and gain an athletic edge on their opponents and teammates. The
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athletes use performance enhancing drugs‚ it gives them an unfair advantage‚ and it ruins the spirit of competition. Imagine the athlete that has been dreaming of playing collegiately or even advancing so far as to go to the Olympics and win a medal. This athlete may do whatever it takes to achieve their childhood dreams. “Most serious athletes will tell you that the competitive drive to win can be fierce”(Mayo Clinic Staff 1) and because of that “the use of performance-enhancing drugs has become
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Performance-Enhancing Drugs Tarnish Athletes “Don’t worry‚ everybody does it.” “Don’t you want to win?” “If it was dangerous‚ no one would do it.” “Don’t worry‚ it’s safe‚ everybody does it.” Unfortunately‚ athletes are pressured all of the time in new ways that they can become bigger‚ faster‚ or stronger. To many athletes‚ drugs are the solution to their problems. But most do not know the real consequences of taking performance-enhancing drugs. The consequences include‚ getting disqualified‚ changing
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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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Against Performance Enhancing Drugs Performance enhancing drugs should be illegal in professional sports. Players found using these drugs should be banned from playing professional sports. The reasons why are because using these drugs is cheating‚ unfair to other players‚ and unfair to fans. Using performance enhancing drugs is cheating in sports. Players are boosting their performance instead of using their own abilities. The point of playing a sport is to see which team or person is the
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