Taking different kind of painkillers have some benefit to the injured person and at the same time there come with risked. Athletes whether they are old or young who have been injured during the game or outside sport activities would tend to have issue and would get prescription painkillers to ease their pain. Adult athletes will easily obtain the painkillers prescription from their doctor or physician. High school athletes can obtain them easily like the adult and most of them use the drugs for non-medical reason. This cause a huge problem to the athletes as they are risking their health, but also getting into huge problems with professional sport leagues as they take their drug policy very serious. The athletes will either suspended or banned from sports for life if they are abusing drugs, it will cause the end of their career as athletes, and will have health problem. Every young aspiring athletes who dream to become professional need to know this so they would not make a wrong decision along the way from high school to college to …show more content…
professional league. Young athletes need to be careful and learn what happen to the today and past athletes that is having trouble with drug and how it ruined their life. Deciding on smart path will lead to have a long successful career. Having to take different kind of painkillers and continue to use them will give different side effect to athletes who got injured that can help ease their pain, which also have several dangerous risks factor of taking the drugs. Problems from preventing athletes from taking painkillers and the risks of continuing taking painkillers that can affect athlete’s life. Athletes have made made a lot of progress to recover from their injury that need painkillers to ease their pain during the time as the recovering method is too much for the athletes to handle so they would most likely still continue taking them. To the athletes that using painkillers as a easy drugs is a way for them to relieve stress from professional sport and their normal life. Each painkillers have their own side effect that can affect the athlete's' health. Such as Opiate, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), Corticosteroids, Serotonin and Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor (SNRI), and Tricyclic and Tetracyclic. These painkillers can cause constipation, dizziness, drowsiness, depression and nausea. This pain relievers is a strong medicines is the best to use to ease the pain from injury or surgery. If not use right or without any doctor’s management then they will be at risk of getting addicted to the drug and the effect will extend longer until the person is dead. Most professional sports must have a physician as they are the best role to check on the athlete’s health and made report to send them to the sport league commissioner. They would be able to review the test result and see if the athletes is clean to continue playing or have been doing drug. As NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, and NCAA is very strict with their drug policy. Each league have their own standard of punishment they give to the player who violated the drug policy. When NBA officials found out a player have been abusing drug during the drug test would result of suspension game or ban from the league. So with the help of physicians to guide the athletes to tend to carefully using certain painkillers that does not get them into trouble, but also have a way of not get them easily get addicted to painkillers. “The physician was considered the person in the best position to know the risks and benefits of treatment and should therefore make the decision for the patient” (Testoni 5). It is true on sport physicians is the best position to work and decide to the athletes as they have study every type of injury to help them heal. At the same time they also know the risk of what type of medical that they can give to their players and keep watch on their process of recovering until they can decided if they can start playing or not. Not only athletes can continue playing healthy; they can still have a healthy life of being drug free. Each athletes always have a decision to make of wherever they continue playing with injury by taking painkillers or not. It is mostly their choice of making and what they are deciding will be their future of positive future of becoming a famous athletes or terrible future that make them regret of ruining their life. One legendary basketball, Bill Walton, made a decision of taking painkillers to maintain playing the game. “On the other hand, Bill Walton, a basketball star who objected to taking pain killers to allow him to stay in the game”(Testoni 5). Even famous athlete can make a terrible decision to when it come with competitive sport. Looking at the decision can make viewer wonder if playing with injury is worth the cause when the outcome will cause career ending. It is very important for all age group athlete to make a wise decision when it is come taking painkillers as there are many risked they are making that will decided their future. To know their own limit can teach every young and adult athletes a lesson of choosing a decision of the right path. The problems of preventing athletes from taking painkillers as they will always find a way to obtain.
They will keep the secret on how they got and tend to keep that way until the league somehow found out the secret later on. Taking them in long term come with risk of endangering their life. The risks of continuing taking painkillers that can affect athletes’ life. As such they can have risked of having cancer, heart attacks or stroke, decreasing their health rate, depression, and even led them to thinking of committing suicide. These are the main factor of the risk taking painkillers. Continuing to ignore the warning that was given by doctor tend to led most athlete into being overdosing painkillers and died in a few years. This result of young and adult athletes being careless with their life as they think of themselve being above the other as they are famous professional athletes and think they can get away with
anything. Professional league have a drug policy that require athletes, but mostly young athletes to take a drug test. Yet they somehow drug abuser can somehow avoid or pass the test. As there are a way for drug abuser to get a step ahead of drug test. “Many authorities on sports medicine say the drug-taker will always be a step or two ahead of the drug-tester, if only because new drugs and new masking agents keep appearing on the market.”(Worsnop 1). It make sense how drug-taker can pass the policy if the drug test does not have the new drugs in the system. It can mostly like have team, physicians, and athletes to get new painkillers to take without being caught. Drug policy is really lacking of updating to the latest drugs since athletes would tend to take advantage of the loophole and remain taking on the drug as long as possible. Every sport league should reform their drug policy to the most update so they can catch any players from sneaking behind their back. Overall, painkillers can be a asset to the athletes. Despite all the unfavorable reason of not taking painkillers, because of the hazard effect will do to the athletes. Even to jeopardize their hard working career just to play for the team and contributing just to let the coach know they deserve to stay. There are positive side of why painkillers should allow athletes to take. As every team have physician to check the health of their players and see if they are able to play the game or not. Physician can maintain their athletes on how many pill they are taking and write down report on the progress they are doing. If all professional league strengthen their drug policy by involving with their physician then athletes will not worry about risking their life and continue playing professional game.
Professional athletes, throughout history, have been exalted for their outstanding abilities and achievements in sports. Unfortunately, many athletes have turned to anabolic steroids in order to give them an edge, a boost their athletic performance. Starting with the 1954 World Weightlifting Championships, where the Soviets unexpectedly dominated their lifting classes with the use of steroids, it has become increasingly popular among athletes to cheat with the help of this drug. Although the appeal to steroid use is evident when observing how it increases someone’s athletic abilities, many users fail to consider the detrimental side effects of the drug. Also, in my opinion, athletes should be expected to perform based upon their natural abilities, opposed to abilities enhanced by anabolic steroids. Ultimately, anabolic steroids should continue to be illegal in professional sports due to their major health risks and the unfair advantage they serve players.
With television and computer so common in today’s society, more and more people spend much time at home watching sport shows. Young children grow up with their heroes being famous athletes they see on TV everyday. These young children grow up wanting to be just like the people they have watched for years on television. Becoming a great athlete is a dream of many young people and also their parents. Because steroids have seemed to make it a lot easier for people to attain the goals they have set out to accomplish, many people have turned to the drugs to gain that goal. Without thinking about the physical side effects or the mental side effects that steroids can have on them, they are willing to risk all that to become bigger, stronger, or faster just to succeed in sports whether it be in junior high, high school, college or at the professional level.
On the typical day, over 90 people will die at the hand of opioid abuse in America alone (National). In fact, as of 2014, nearly 2 million Americans were dependent and abusing opioids. The Opioid Crisis has affected America and its citizens in various ways, including health policy, health care, and the life in populous areas. Due to the mass dependence and mortality, the crisis has become an issue that must be resolved in all aspects.
The exception to steroid use should be only when they are being prescribed by a doctor for medical conditions. One of the main purposes of keeping athletes from using these drugs is simply for their own health benefits. Over the years there have been multiple cases in which the abuse of these drugs has caused...
Almost everybody on Long Island, and probably all around the world, has been prescribed a drug by a doctor before— whether it was to knock out a nasty virus, or relieve pain post injury or surgery. However, what many people don’t realize is that these drugs can have highly addictive qualities, and more and more people are becoming hooked, specifically teenagers. But when does harmlessly taking a prescription drug to alleviate pain take the turn into the downward spiral of abuse? The answer to that question would be when the user begins taking the drug for the “high” or good feelings brought along with it—certainly not what it was prescribed for (1). The amount of teens that abuse prescription medications has been rapidly increasing in recent
In all areas of sports, professional, college, and even high school, there is widespread illegal use of performance-enhancing drugs. Although there are many reasons for athletes to choose to use these drugs, the cost of such use, both to the athlete and to society can be extraordinarily high. It is important to understand why performance-enhancing drugs are used and what are the consequences of their use to the athlete and society.
They are using alcohol, over-the-counter anti-inflammatories, and painkillers. According to one study, where it surveyed 644 retired NFL players, it found that retired NFL players use opioids at four times the rate of the general population. The study found that over half of the retired NFL players used opioids during their NFL career with almost three fourths of the opioid users saying they misused them. Also, about 15% of the misusers still currently misuse them, which was found to be four times the rate of the general population (Maese). Misuse of opioids is a very serious health problem because it can lead to physical and mental damage and even death. Basically players who misused during their NFL career are more likely to misuse currently compared to others, and the players who currently misuse are associated with more NFL pain, undiagnosed concussions and heavy drinking. Another review of 39 studies which investigated the effectiveness of using opiates for chronic pain found that there's little evidence of benefit for treating long-term pain with opioids, but there is a risk of harm. We should really take a good look at this, as opiate painkillers, the ones prescribed in by the NFL, kill over 15,000 people a year, but no death from a marijuana overdose has been reported
There are many side affects for athletes using PEDs. These affects often are not immediate as players in the past have not seen any issues till well after they have retired from the sport. These athletes are well aware of the consequences they face when using drugs, but for a career and payday that will be remembered in history it is all...
Drug abuse among professional basketball players is a problem as old as time. In some circumstances it may not be the athletes fault. For example when they are treating a minor cough or a cold, the medications used will sometimes contain small amounts of alcohol. On the other hand some athletes purposely abuse drugs for a variety of reasons. Some attempt to cover up the presence of other drug abuse but most abuse drugs because they will enhance their performance. The most common abused drugs in professional basketball are: anabolic steroids, marijuana, and amphetamines. Each drug has its own effect on performance, and disciplinary actions.
...t these drugs are catastrophic and cause so many diseases and sicknesses that should not happen to an athlete. Athletes will be looked at as superheroes and children would not want to idolize a player that got to where he is because he did drugs. A child wants to look up to a player that beat the odds and worked harder than everyone else. If Performance Enhancing Drugs were legalized and allowed in all professional sports, there would be a lot of deaths, and player that have diseases caused by the drugs they took. Also High school and college players would begin to take it because they would feel like that is the only way to get to the pros. And lastly players would hurt themselves and their teammates and fellow players. PED’s have a lot of potential but not yet. There are too many health defects and we do not want our “heroes” to die from a disease caused by drugs.
In all professional sports in the United States, the use of PEDs are prohibited. However, there is only one acceptation to that rule. If an athlete is injured, prescriptions to certain drugs which are used in recover are allowed. These drugs may consist of certain chemicals that enhance muscle grow. Some athletes have used this to their advantage and have got prescriptions to these drugs for their own personal benefits, will other athletes are using it for recreational purposes. This, however, is not the only way to obtain PEDs; there are also other ways such as buying them from an underground market. Athletes with the intention to cheat will take the risk of using PEDs, since if they are successful they will achieve fame and money.
Their talent should truly be based on how much they have practiced and the amount of effort they put in on their free time. Any player of any sport chooses if they want the risk of getting caught taking them or not. Richard Pound, former president of the Anti Doping Agency, says “The use of PEDs is not accidental; it is planned and deliberate with the sole objective of getting an unfair advantage.” Every athlete that takes steroids knows exactly what they do to the body and what happens to their mindset. Most players believe that they will be much better, be drafted more quickly, and be resigned for longer.
...he day, professional sport players are adults before anything. The lessons of right and wrong are already learned. It should not take all the wrong doing of guilt for a person to do the right thing. Guilt is not a good way to live life for simple decisions of not taking enhancement drugs and destroys the character of an athlete.
These substances that are given to athletes are usually manufactured and sold illegally because the are not allowed in sports and may include impurities. When the substances are used, they cause severe health problems. Some athletes may use a combination of drugs when only one does not seem to work, this will be much more serious and thus increasing the risk of a fatal outcome. As complex interactions can occur among various types of drugs. The side effects of taking a combination of drugs are likely to be severe and serious and thus increase the risk of an even more fatal
The drug abuse is the most significant concern among the American people today. As sports are a microcosm of life, drug abuse may now be the greatest problem faced by the athletic community. It has been suggested that the incidence of drug abuse is no greater in sports than in the general population. We are only more acutely aware of it because of the extreme visibility of athletes. The rash of suspensions due to drug testing violations in the NFL recently suggests that its occurrence may be significant and increasing. The widespread use of drugs in professional sports deserves special attention by everyone within and outside of the sports world because of the very exposur...