Drug Testing In Professional Sports

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Discusses the evolution in the 1980s-90s. Examines legal and laboror management issues, examples, punishment and types of drugs

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"Drug abuse in professional sports became a hot-button issue in the early 1980s, as several celebrated cases helped focus attention on the topic. This coincided with society s changing attitudes about drugs as America moved from the lax 1970s to the more conservative 1980s. The major pro sports leagues in the United States responded by implementing drug control programs, which have largely succeeded in removing the topic from the headlines, or at least pushing it to the back pages. This paper will examine the drug testing of professional athletes, from the contentious first steps in the early 1980s until today, where concern over performance enhancing drugs has refocused the effort away from traditional illegal substances.

Pro sports leagues derive their power to test athletes for drugs from collective bargaining agreements and the leagues by-..."

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