Essay On Performance Enhancing Drugs

Everyone has a person they admire. Whether it is a parent, family member, friend, they should be a person who is true to themself and never cheats. “70 percent of all kids list athletes list as a person they admire” (The Prevalence of drug use in professional sports). Sadly, some of those athletes that they look up to cheats or does performancing enhancing drugs to do better. Drug use has been an increasing problem throughout the last couple of decades. Sports should ban drug use in professional, collegiate, and amateur sports because it takes away from the athletes mastery and hard work they put into the sport to be good.
Throughout history performance enhancing drugs have been used to win sporting events. Dating back to the sixteenth century,

(Sports Statistics, 2015). According to Norman Foster, “If performance enhancing is unfair; we would ban coaching and training” (Foster, 2005). He is saying that if athletes aren’t allowed to use substances that help them perform better, then why are they allowed to have coaches and train for it? But how does coaching and using substances even compare? When you have a good coach and train, that helps you hoan your own abilities in the sport. Although doping is a way to enhance your performance, it can make anyone good at the sport, not just the people that are naturally gifted at it. Weightlifting has the highest number of doping and performancing enhancing drugs. Athletes are pushed day in and day out to be better, causing them to be more interested in performancing enhancing drugs. The athletes who use these banned substances, believe that what they are doing isn’t harming their body, but that it is helping them become stronger and faster. However, in reality it is causing chemical imbalances within their body and putting a prolonged stress on your heart, later resulting in “heart attacks and heart rhythm problems” (Performance-Enhancing Drugs & The Heart,