Performance enhancing drugs, also known as PEDs, are used by many athletes in the sporting world. It seems as if every, or at least most, athletes are using PEDs and are getting caught all the time, even though they are cheating. PEDs need to stay illegal because they are harming everyone involved. One reason that the world of sports should not allow PEDs is because the use of them is giving an unfair advantage and can cause bad side effects. If PEDs were legal, then every athlete would be taking them, then the people who want to be the biggest and the best would take more, resulting in a very violent game. Also, PEDs have horrible side effects for anyone using them. In women, they can cause body hair growth, and deepening of the voice. For men, PEDs could cause breast tissue growth and shrinking of the testicles. PEDs can cause damage to your mind too. Things like “Roid Rage”, anxiety, fatigue, and depression are not uncommon. To finish, PEDs are dangerous because of the side effects, and unfair because of the advantage that they give. …show more content…
When young fans think of their favorite athlete, they don’t usually think of them using drugs to be the best. The kids want to be just like them, right? When young fans find out that their idol is doing drugs and are not getting punished for it, they will think that it is okay to also do them and cheat, without thinking about the consequences. 90-94% of children who look(ed) up to athletes who did PEDs said that they thought that it was okay to do them while playing a sport. 4% of surveyed children as young as 12 years old admitted that they had done PEDs while playing a sport because they wanted to emulate their favorite athletes. Athletes who do PEDs can affect the people who idolize them, while also harming
Performance enhancing drugs have been a longstanding problem in sports. It not only deteriorates the honesty of the game, but also can have broader social affects that one may not even realize. The use of performance enhancing drugs is especially apparent in Major League Baseball. This problem can be traced back to the 1980’s when baseball was facing one of its first “dark periods”. During the 1980’s Major League Baseball was experiencing a home run drought. Home run totals were down as far as they had been since Babe Ruth, and fans were seemingly becoming bored with the sport. The lack of home runs was a growing concern for players whose salary relied on home run totals. Players needed to find a quick way to boost their power and performance in order to keep the sport alive and to keep bringing in their paychecks. This desire for fame and fortune introduced steroids into Major League Baseball in the 1990’s and 2000’s. Home run totals jumped tremendously during these decades and players were willing to risk being caught using illegal substances in order to shine above the rest. New idols and role models started to sprout up from these outstanding home run statistics and young children started to take notice. This all came tumbling down when these new idols and role models who were making the big bucks and hitting the ball out of the park tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Here lie the affects of a growing social problem in sports. These famed athletes become walking advertisements and promotions for the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports. The influence professional athletes have over aspiring young athletes is very powerful and these roles models make it seem acceptable to use performance ...
Human beings have always had a strong competitive nature, and many people have a inclination towards achieving fame and glory. Professional sporting events measure the great spirit, unique natural talents, and competitive nature of humans as they attempt to heroically represent the entire race. Often times humans search for the ultimate advantage in sports to put themselves above and beyond the other athletes. Unfortunately, some athletes turn to unnatural agents to supplement their own natural talents. They often ignore the side effects of the drugs and more importantly ignore the damage they do to how they are perceived and how people view the game. Athletes who use performance enhancing drugs, also known as PEDs, create a monstrous persona,
...25 believed that PEDs were necessary to make it into professional baseball. Keep in mind that these baseball players are still the role model of many of these young men. Another study also showed that within the same sample group " 3-12 percent of adolescent males have willing confessed to using PEDs at some point during their life" this according to a study by Charles Yesalis, Professor at Penn state University founded in their report " Performance enhancing substances in Sports and exercise". It's clear that there seems to be new reports of PED use every month and thus has been increased media coverage on the subject. The increased presence has led to adolescent use as they follow their role models. If athletes are well informed of the risk factors that these supplements propose as well as the connotation its had on children, why do athletes continue to use them?
Sports players are starting to resort to different ways to help them play better or to get stronger. And one of the big ways right now is the use of PEDs. They use them because they are weaker then there opponents. But even though they make you stronger and gives you an edge over on everyone else that is not using them they ruin lives and make people think of you differently as a person. Elite athletes use them to help them win and or play better, example Lance Armstrong who is a seven time Tour de France winner, who was caught “doping” so that he was stronger and had more stamina then his other opponents. Then Alex Rodriguez claimed that he used steroids to help recover from his hip surgery. But when really it was helping him continue to smash the ball even when he was trying to recover from his injury, but he continued to use them after he was better. And the clinic he and twenty seven other professional baseball players were getting them from. When he and Lance were caught they still denied it. They lost a lot of respect in the community because there great performances weren’t really there raw skills and years of training. "A potent cocktail of sophisticated PEDs stacked together to delive...
Performance Enhancing Drugs should not be allowed in sports. PEDs are a form of cheating. Not only are they cheating, but they can harm the athlete's body too. There are many long-term health risks we don't even know about! Finally, PED’s make the game unfair because the kids with natural talent are not able to showcase their great skills.
More and more, of our society views winning more important than itself. Success in competition brings status, popularity, and fame, not to mention college scholarships. Today’s athletes are looking for an advantage over the competition that will make them winners. Unfortunately, the drugs of today are caught up in the high stakes competition frenzy. Of this reality, teenage use of performance improved drugs is growing ever more popular. In colleges and in the professional league a lot of people are doing drugs and its ruining their health and life. Also, if some teenagers take performance drugs they are making them better than everyone else giving themselves an advantage over everyone else which is cheating, so why should they get money for using drugs to win, how do we know they aren't actually good at the sport? Performance drugs in sport should not be tolerated and should be illegal. Stores shouldn't give teenagers drugs that way they can do well in a sport. Many student athletes want to make their families proud by doing something their mom or dad never done.
Professional athletes using performance enhancing drugs, are influencing adolescent athletes to do the same. Studies done by psychologist in the past have shown that twenty percent of high school athletes who use performance enhancing drugs, do so because their favorite player does. Young athletes are starting to believe that to be the best, they have to use the best. They believe that if they use the same enhancers as professional athletes than they will be able to make it to the next
Many Athletes are willing to do whatever it takes to become a professional. One of the easiest ways to enhance natural ability is through performance-enhancing drugs or, PEDs. PEDs are substances used by athletes to increase their performance. The use of PEDs in athletic competition can date back to ancient Greece. Athletes use PEDs to run faster, jump higher and recover at an increased pace. Many athletes are pressured into using PEDs by coaches or managers and are not thoroughly educated the harmful health issues that can come along with taking performance-enhancing drugs. A rising issue is if performance-enhancing drugs should be allowed in professional sports. I believe that in any professional sport, the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes should continue to be banned because this rule will help to keep athletes from abusing these harmful drugs.
...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.
Evan Dean Mr. Johnson English 11 May 6, 2018 The Use of Performing Enhancing Drugs in Athletes In recent history there has been a debate on whether or not athletes should be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). In most professional and collegiate level sports PEDs are illegal for athletes to use. Should athletes be allowed to use PEDs?
Young athletes often believe that steroid use by their role models gives them permission to use. That it is simply part of what one must do to become an elite athlete. " This shows that many high level athlete’s decision can have huge impacts on those who look to them. When high school athletes see that their favorite player has been taking drugs, they might think, “Oh, well if drugs got him that far, I guess that’s what it takes to be a pro player like him,” and might start taking drugs. Of course, many people can think that drugs are not easy to get, but sadly, 60% of teens that abuse prescription drugs get them from family and relatives(DoSomething.org), making drugs an option for some athletes.
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.
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.
To cheat is to act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage. The use of performance –enhancing drugs in sports is morally wrong due to the fact that it is only a sign of cheating, impacts the future generation, and is deceiving to fellow audience. This goes against all the things sport fans theorize from athletes. People expect to see the individuals perform with the best of their abilities. It is what makes watching sports more interesting and creates competition. Performance enhancing drugs in sport should not be tolerated and should be illegal because it eliminates competition.