The idea of drug testing student-athletes has been discussed on school boards for years, and it has lots of mixed opinions. Some people believe that it would not be consistent and could cause false testing. This could add embarrassment to the players if the drug test results are positive. However, athletes should be role models for the youth, so showing that it is acceptable to use performance-enhancing drugs, or any non-prescribed drug, is bad for the younger upcoming athletes. Using non-prescribed drugs or performance enhancers can cause an unfair advantage in strength, speed, and stamina against other athletes. Doing random drug tests could also cause students' drug use rates to go down. This could prevent multiple career-ending decisions …show more content…
Ultimately, dropping drug use rates isn’t the only goal schools want to reach, they mainly want to cause fair, fun, and enjoyable sporting events. With the least chance of injury to enrolled students and other students in opposing schools, and drug testing for uncontrolled substance and performance-enhancing drugs. To begin, older students, such as the high school and college level athletes, are strongly looked up to by the younger athletes and future generations of their sports. According to the website, “As athletes are supposed to be role models for the youth, it is important that they should go by the rules, especially the unwritten laws of good sportsmanship.”(Lombardo). Having the accountability of having to take drug tests while being an upperclassman athlete, keeps these athletes choosing to stay clean, and also shows younger athletes that by being drug-free and in your natural state when competing in any sporting events you can still exceed success, completely clean of any drug. In conclusion, this is why upperclassmen should be drug …show more content…
As stated previously, performance enhancers can make you stronger, faster, and have more stamina. This could cause injuries in many sports, especially American football, the hits in American football are crucial enough but giving them more speed leading up to a tackle, and more strength on the hit, could cause serious injury. In conclusion, if schools add mandatory drug tests, this could prevent any performance-enhancing users from causing injuries, or unfair and “cheated” victories or placements. Another reason for drug tests is because, aside from athletics, being a student-athlete can be hard at times, so stress and anxiety come with it. Drug testing can identify the problem before it turns into an addiction or even worse, death. According to the website, ”Between scholarships, grades, and their performances in games, student athletes deal with a lot of pressure and responsibility. A positive drug test provides an opportunity for the school to address the issue and get the student athlete
In American high schools across the country, many people buy, sell, and use drugs. In addition, these people influence everyone around them. On these campuses, some of the people influenced by this illegal activity are sports players. One of the sports most affected is baseball. Doping in baseball is wrong because it ruins baseball's reputation, it negatively influences the athlete's health, and the drugs are bad for young people who hold up athletes as role models.
Citius, Altius, Fortius is the motto of the Olympic games. Translated from Greek, it means "Faster, Higher, Stronger". Recently, Olympic contenders have been doing everything they can to live up to that motto. Most do it by training hour after hour, each day. Others try to do it by illegally taking performance enhancing drugs. This is why we need to test for drugs at the Olympics. Drug Testing in the Olympics began only recently in the 1968 Games held in Mexico1. Drugs are banned for two very good reasons: the use of drugs produces an unfair advantage, and it is hazardous to the athlete to take them. While drug testing is now commonplace, the procedures are still fairly primitive and arouse much controversy2. We all remember the Andreea Raducan situation from the Sydney Olympics. She unknowingly had consumed a performing enhancing drug that was in her cold medication. Her medal was revoked as soon as the drug test results got back.3 While Andreea was caught, many others who intentionally "doped up" weren't Many of the drugs or procedures out there, still can't be tested for, and more and more athletes are cheating. Most of the drugs and procedures have adverse long term effects, some resulting in death. The drug tests are detrimental to the existence of the Olympics and need to be upheld at all costs.
In the world we live in today, some college athletes take certain substances to boost their physical body in hopes of taking their game to the next level. These substances are labeled as PED’s. PED’s is an acronym for performance enhancing drugs which to this day are illegal for not only college athletes but professional athletes as well. An athletes’ usage of performance enhancing drugs can affect many people. For example, we know that enhancing drugs will affect the athlete using them but the usage of PED’s can also effect the athlete’s teammates as well as the coaching staff. Failing a drug test due to performance enhancing drugs can result in a loss of a full year of eligibility with the first offense (Disalvo). Failing a second time can
Abstract: Since the beginning of sports competition, athletes have always looked for some kind of an edge over their competitors. They will do whatever it takes to be one of the elite and that includes injecting supplements into their bodies to make them bigger, stronger, and faster. Steroid use is probably one of the most common drug misuses in sports competition. Athletes found that with anabolic steroids one could become a better athlete twice as fast. Not until 1975 was the drug first banned from Olympic competition because of the health risks it produced. Shortly thereafter, the rest of the sports world did not allow anabolic steroids as well. With the use of steroids no longer permitted athletes began to look for other alternatives. On the rise is two substances called creatine and androstenedione, both of which are sold over the counter. These two performance enhancers have only had minimal testing done on them, excluding the long-term effects, simply because they haven't been around long enough. Creatine and androstenedione have been said to produce results like steroids without the side effects. The truth is they do produce side effects and irregular muscle growth. By banning the use of performance enhancing drugs, just like steroids, sports competition will have a much healthier and fairer environment to participate in.
In many high schools around the country, student athletes are using drugs. “The percent of students that have drunk alcohol is 72.5% while the number of students who have used marijuana is 36.8%” (Report: Nearly Half of High School Students Using Drugs, Alcohol). The students believe that since they are athletes that they do not need to abide by the rules because they feel more superior and that the narcotic will not hurt or affect them. Implementing random drug tests for athletes will create a positive image and not hurt others or themselves. Schools need to have drug tests for student athletes because drugs effect relationships, using drugs have consequences, and lastly they have a major effect on the body.
Every athlete has probably at some point has been told to represent their school with class. Athletes are held to high standards, they are expected do the right thing on and off the field, and to lead others by setting a good example. As a role model for younger athletes and other students, should our athletes be required to prove they are being responsible even when no one is watching? Should we drug test all of our athletes to ensure they are making the right choices and setting a good example for younger athletes?
“A medical dictionary defines a drug as ‘any substance that when taken into the living organism may modify one or more of its functions’” (Newton 12). However, when speaking of drug testing for abuse a person is usually thinking about illegal drugs or drugs that can alter athletic performance in sporting events. Mandatory drug testing was not allowed in public schools until June 2002 when the Supreme Court allowed for public schools to do random drug testing (Carroll 23). This decision allowed for drug testing in all schools throughout the United States not just for athletes but also students who are in any activities within the school, for example clubs and competitive events (Carroll 23). Even though drug testing is now allowed by the Supreme Court many schools do not yet have mandatory drug test policies. Mandatory drug testing for high school athletes should be required because it decreases drug use in schools, is relatively inexpensive, and can prevent drug use and or abuse that can lead to a lifelong addiction.
Every athlete dreams of becoming the best player in their sport. For most athletes, this dream was created in their childhood watching their favorite player perform at great levels to achieve success. Most athletes will stop at anything to achieve success, even if that means breaking the rules. An athlete whether the biggest, fastest, or strongest, will always look for something that will give them and extra edge over everybody else, even if that means performance enhancing drugs. With new records being broken day by day, I believe performance-enhancing drugs should be legal in all professional sports.
In sports many people think it is ok to use Performance Enhance Drugs to be the best player of all time.Performance Enhance Drugs are substances used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. For example, Bruce Irvin the defensive end with the seattle seahawks,and Daryl Washington the linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals. It is not just football players , baseball players also like, Cody Stanley from the St. Louis Cardinals. Many people use them, but the end up getting caught and suspended from playing.You are basically cheating your way to fame.People should not use drugs in a sport to become better because,These drugs have an effect on having a long term of health, could lead to overdose, and if you get caught you most
Sports are not merely about winning at all costs, but about the journey of self-improvement, discipline, and overcoming challenges. Allowing doping would create a culture where success is solely measured by chemical enhancement rather than genuine skill and effort. This would diminish the intrinsic value of sports and discourage athletes from striving for excellence through legitimate means. Additionally, it would send the wrong message to young athletes about the importance of ethical conduct and integrity in both sports and life, perpetuating a cycle of cheating and dishonesty that undermines the very foundation of competitive sports. Preventing drug use in sports requires a multifaceted approach that addresses both the root causes of doping and the enforcement of stringent anti-doping measures.
“ Some performance-enhancing drugs are so-called “designer drugs.” They have been created specifically to circumvent drug testing. They are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for any medical use and their potential ill effects are largely unknown” (Bosshardt 1). It even seems that certain drugs are still being tested on what it can do to affect the human body. Depending on how bad the situation is, If professional athletes get caught with doping, the consequences are usually quite severe.
In the book by Tricker and Cook, they give an in-depth look at how our society’s abuse of alcohol and other drugs impacts sports and athletes. This book explains why athletes are at risk to abuse drugs, the history and evolution of drugs in sports, and ethical issues of drugs in sport. Drug abuse by athletes has been a major problem in sports for many years. Universities are spending more money on drug testing, then educating students athletes about drugs. In a national survey, in 1984 only about 5% of the NCAA division one schools provided more then three drug educational learnings per year (Tricker & Cook, 1993, p. 149).
Athletes And Drug Use Many people believe that drug use in professional athletics is not a serious problem, however it is more widespread and serious than people think. In professional athletics, the use of drugs is looked upon as somewhat of a serious problem, but is also very discrete and low key. Every once in a while one might see a prominent figure in a certain sport being reprimanded for the use of some outlawed drug, however this is just one of the many who happen to get caught. Athletes today seem to find no moral problem with using performance-enhancing drugs, or in other words cheating. Also, many of them feel that because they are "stars" there should be no repercussions for their illegal activity.
Athletes use performance enhancing drugs, which can be associated with many health risks. Some of the negative effects of performance-enhancing drugs include damage to the body, liver diseases, paranoia and rage or aggression. Performance-enhancing drugs include any substance, taken by an athlete, to improve performance. Many athletes have or still use performance-enhancing drugs, which leads to many bans in sports and national events. Performance- enhancing drugs should be banned in sports because they can harm your body, become a cheating method and put out a negative vibe to spectators.
First, what is one problem sports enhancing drugs can lead to? Drugs can make you do good because their taking drugs to do good in sports. “Sprinter Ben Johnson, nearly four years out from the triumph and disgrace of the Soul Olympics, finished second in the 100 meters at this weekends Canadian Track and Field Championships” (The straight dope on drugs in sports). “Track’s governing body, the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), led by President Primo Nebiolo, spent most of the 1980s in denial, unwilling to expose drug- cheating for fear of losing fans and lucrative endorsement deals, preferring to sweep the whole sordid mess under the table”