Why Do Athletes Use Performance Enhancing Drugs?

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Performance-enhancing drugs (often known as PED’s) are any type of substance that is taken, usually by athletes to improve their performance standards. 1 Athletes use performance-enhancing drugs for many reasons. Some athletes use drugs for medical needs, some use proscribed drugs unintentionally, some athletes use drugs deliberately and in some sports athletes use illegal drugs, recreationally. Most athletes use drugs for there own benefit, whilst other athletes are told or forced to use performance-enhancing drugs by coaches or officials. They’re many reasons for why athletes use performance-enhancing drugs, but they’re mainly used to cheat, improve the athletes performance standards and to improve the athletes or teams chances of winning. 2 The use of PED’s in sport is a major issue in today’s society; some people are against legalizing the use of PED’s in sport whilst others are for. People believe that the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport creates an unfair advantage, while others believe that it should be the athletes choice whether they use PED’s or not. 3 If drugs were made to be legal in sport and easily available for all athletes, then there would be no cheating. Any type of drug is declared illegal if it is performance enhancing or if it is a health risk towards the athlete. …show more content…

4 Using PED’s to better you or your teams advantages of winning is classified as cheating. If athletes are winning awards whilst they’re under the influence of drugs, how is that fair for the athletes who are performing with no

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