Athletes and Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Medical and Health > Drugs
Sociology > Media and Society
Sport
Sport > Medicine and Drugs
Sport > Players

Shows that many athletes take performance-enhancing drugs to have an unfair advantage and examines how this effects their younger fans.

1,443 words () | 6 sources | APA | 2004 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper argues that by glamorizing professional and amateur sports-people and their achievements or abilities, the media directly affects children and encourages performance-enhancing drug use. The paper shows that authorities need to encourage sufficient funding to enable research and provide testing in all regulated sports in order to put fair play back into sports.

From the Paper:

"According to Tokish, Kocher and Hawkins (2004), there is a "potent marketing influence" on athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs. Whether or not they really work is not important - if there's a possibility that they'll work, that's a good enough reason for many athletes to take them. If by chance they are dangerous to take, and at this point in time the research just does not exist to refute the possibility, that is a chance they will take."

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APA Citation:

Athletes and Performance-Enhancing Drugs (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Athletes-and-Performance-Enhancing-Drugs/61430

MLA Citation:

"Athletes and Performance-Enhancing Drugs" 15 January 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Athletes-and-Performance-Enhancing-Drugs/61430>