Performance Enhancing Drugs in Professional Sports

It is NFL Sunday and you are ready to see some of your favorite athletes to go head to head on the grid iron. However, you notice something a little different your favorite athlete seems to be more aggressive and his body has changed substantially. That famous athlete that you know and adore was caught for taking performance enhancing drugs that was the reasoning for your unanswered questions about his odd transformations. Bigger, better, stronger each professional athlete tries to achieve that when they are preparing to compete in their sport, but there are some that get a little help to be better, bigger, and stronger. These athletes use performance enhancing drugs; performance enhancing drugs are a man-made or synthetic version of testosterone. Someone who takes the performance enhancing drug illegally will likely gain weight muscle and get stronger. The athletes will love the result they are getting from taking the performance enhancing drugs and would want more and that is when this synthetic drug can become harmful. The performance enhancing drugs can cause many major side effects and the most severe is death. That is why athletes should think twice about taking performance enhancing drugs because strength, endurance, and energy is not worth all the side effects that come with taking the illegal substance. The athletes who risk their lives just to be better at their sport is not beneficial in the long run.

Performance enhancing drugs, many think they are illegal substances that athletes use to perform better in their professional sport however; they can be used for medical reasons. One form of performance enhancing drugs that can be beneficial to the medical field is Anabolic steroids: “The main legitimate use of these dr...

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...issues.” (Monroe 84). With the many complications with the tradional drug testing method and how the athletes can prepare themselves for the test, many of the professional sports and collegiate sports have tested athletes immediately after they won a championship or anything.

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