Essay On Performance Enhancing Drugs

“Some young athletes are using drugs with the belief that they can become great in their sports and gain money from their fame” (Drugs Quotes By Athletes). That's what young athletes think they are doing by looking up to their favorite athletes. Other than that's not the case, they are having kids turn to non-inherited substances. This is allowing players to become stronger, faster, and more skilled faster. We are suppose to work to get better, not just use non natural substances to get better.
Throughout the years performance enhancing drugs or in other words doping has become a huge problem. According to Truesport which is part of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) that supports positive youth sports experiences it states that a performance

They turn to these because they see their role models using them. The only things these users don’t know are the side effects and the harm they are causing themselves. High school students use a protein called creatine which is a powder substance. It affects them because it boosts their ATP output, letting them go harder then others (Abuse of Drugs to Enhance Sports Performance: Winning At Any Cost). That’s why kids are being pressured into using these drugs and are becoming so popular. They don’t understand that they are hurting very vital organs in their body when they use these drugs.Not only are they hurting their organs, but they are also causing a disease to form in their body that are very hard to heal if they are healable. They can also mess with their mind and emotions. You can get anxiety from them, and lose your trace of thought even tho you feel fine and you don’t realize it. That’s why people need to realize what they are doing not only to their present self but what they are doing to loved ones and their older self. That’s why it's important that we encourage not to take performance enhancing drugs. The reason why they chose to do this is so that they can out do their teammates and opponents when all you're really doing is hurting yourself when you don’t realize