Performance Enhancement Drugs Performance Enhancement Drugs, also known as PED’s, are drugs that athletes use to become better and stronger competitors. Performance Enhancement Drugs have been around since 776
BC - 393 BC. In fact, the Ancient Greeks used PED’s in their battles. PED’s were accepted worldwide in the 1920’s by MLB, NBA, NHA, NFL, and in Hollywood. After there was testing done to the PED’s they found out that they were harmful to human bodies and could even be deadly. These drugs create an unfair advantage to those taking PED’s because they get better by taking pills instead of doing drills and going to the gym. Not only are Performance Enhancement
Drugs unfair but, they can also harm the body in so many ways. There are around
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Armstrong says, “ If you take me back to 1995, Id probably do it again.” I don't think that Armstrong deserves to get his medals back. Performance
Enhancement Drugs can change someone's perspective on the sport itself. Lance Armstrong was so focused on using the drugs and not getting caught that he ruin all of the relationships that he had with his teammates. The competitive side of Armstrong grew bigger than what it use to be.
He stopped being a team player and starting being a bully. The drugs literally changed him into being a mean athlete that no one looks up to. Performance Enhancement Drugs are illegal in sports because they are thought of as cheating. It is not fair to the other athletes who compete sober. Another famous athlete who was caught using Performance Enhancement Drugs was Alex
Rodriguez, also know as A-Rod. He was one of the best players in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Yankees and won three American League Most Valuable Player
Awards. A-Rod was suspended from the MLB for around a year for the usage of PED’s. Athletes who take Performance Enhancement Drugs are so focused on winning and becoming the best athlete in their sport that they don't focus on the important features on taking the
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In a way they would be right because athletes who use PED’s, in some type of way, they do get either bigger, better, and/or stronger but, I would risk my health or my life for the amount of talent I would have in my sport. I don't think anyone should risk that. If someone told me that doing something that I loved would threaten my life in any way, shape or form then I would not do it. In my opinion, my life is way more important than a hobby or a career. People who choose to take Performance Enhancement Drugs are choosing to harm themselves. Not only are they harming themselves but, they are also harming their teammates, their families, and their fans. Professional athletes are too famous to only think about themselves.
They also have to make sure not to put any bad name on their team names. Therefore I do not believe that people of any kind should be taking Performance Enhancement
Drugs for any reason. I think it is too much harm to a person's life and it could change the way someone views the athlete or person. I also believe that the competitive side of someone is almost as unhealthy as the the person who has taken PED’s before. They get so caught up
ballplayer who was nicknamed "Knucksie" because of his usage and skill level with the knuckleball.
To fully understand this book, people must go behind the book and find the true state of mind of the author. Unfortunately in this case, the author is the one and only Jose Canseco. Jose Canseco is what I like to call, “The black sheep in the family of baseball.” Canseco’s history can be related to such incidents of drug using, heavy drinking, numerous sexual encounters with hundreds of partners, and unreasonable acts of violence. This book goes into grave detail on how steroids have changed his life and how it is currently changing baseball.
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 ...
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In the early 80’s many professional players began to discover steroids, but Major League Baseball had not. As more and more cases of these drugs came about the most serious was that of Mark McGwire who was racing Sammy Sosa to try and break Roger Maris’s single season homerun record ("The Steroids Era "). McGwire admitted to using steroids just before he broke the record hitting 70 homeruns in one season. Later, Sosa was also found to have been using steroids during this period. These events seemed to spark the events of the next decade and beyond with more and more players being busted for steroids ("Event Timeline ").
Some Athletes in society today are considered heroes despite their double lives. Their drug use and violence are brushed aside while leading their teams to victory.
At age 16, Taylor Hooton was 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 180 pounds. Hooton was a pitcher for his high school baseball team. His baseball coach told him that if he wanted to be an all-star player, he would have to get bigger. (Ingram) Taylor decided to take steroids orally and by injection at the same time, to get bigger. During the winter of 2003 Taylor gained 30 pounds of muscle. (Ingram) Taylor’s attitude took a dramatic turn. He started punching through walls when angry and yelling at his closest friends. (Ingram) When he decided to stop using steroids he became severely depressed and a month after his 17th birthday, he committed suicide. (Ingram) His coach pressured him take steroids to be a star, but if Major League Baseball really cracked down on steroid use then Taylor might not have started taking steroids in the first place and he could still be alive today. Although many scholars have argued that a suspension and a fine will fix the drug problem in baseball, banning the players for life on the first offense will be a better way to stop it from continuing.
The use of performance enhancing supplements has long played a role in athletics, especially after the utilization of drug testing was introduced during the 1972 Olympics.
enhancing drugs are the health risks. There are many more downs than ups with the use
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...abolin and Winstrol, both steroids that were and still are banned in the MLB. Near the end of the series, Clemens approached McNamee asking for help on injecting steroids. McNamee stated that towards the end of Clemens 1998 season, he showed remarkable improvements in his playing. "I put a lot of work into that career," he said. "I appreciate my teammates who came in and all the emails and phone calls from my teammates” (Duncan). Clemens did work hard in all his seasons and he should never have that credit taken away from him but in all truth, the steroids he took did help him to train longer and harder than his body would have allowed without the steroids, which in a way can be considered as “cheating.” Roger Clemens was an outstanding player and his achievements will never be over looked but that is hard when you know he had “help” to get those achievements.
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.
Lance Armstrong is the best Cyclist out there today. He would win race after race, tour after tour, but he only accomplished this because of the use of performance enhancing drugs. He used a drug called EPO which is an illegal transfusion of oxygenated blood cells that are put into an athlete’s body to help their blood cells stay oxygenated. This drug would take the athletes ability to perform for a long period of time to a whole knew level. This gave players, cyclist, and runners such an advantage that they could be stripped of their titles or medals received if they were caught. Oprah Winfrey interviewed lance about his use of drugs....
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...