Performance Enhancing Drugs

Essay # 62966

Medical and Health > Drugs
Sport > Medicine and Drugs

This paper discusses performance enhancing drugs used by athletes and states that they should be made illegal.

1,820 words () | 5 sources | MLA | 2003 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that performance enhancing drugs can be extremely harmful to the body and can cause many health problems; they also can get an athlete into trouble. The author points out that most of the performance enhancing drugs used today can be detected by quick and easy-to-do testing. The paper relates that a complicating factor in drug detection is that many performance-enhancing drugs occur naturally in the body; therefore, sporting bodies usually set benchmarks, above which, the athlete is said to be guilty.

From the Paper:

"The use of enhancement drugs while involved in athletics is not worth what a person can get out of the drugs. There is too much of a chance that one would get caught using drugs by a random drug test. Then not be eligible to compete in an athletic event. This is mostly true in high school and college. If a person gets tested and has performance drugs in his system he would be taken off the team. When this happens to a pro-athlete he would be fined and suspended for a couple of games. "As many as 7% of adolescent males and 4% of adolescent females are using anabolic steroids."