“Athletes should be Tested for Drugs” DeVry University Summary/Reaction In the article titled “Athletes should be Tested for Drugs,” authors Lee, Deborah, Griswold and Ann. They argue that bans on use of illegal drugs in sports need to be enforced. The authors claims that the use of illegal drugs, in sports should not be justified and try to keeping the integrity of sports. People pay to view the games, but never would justify allowing athletes to break rules in obvious ways. Such as steroids, that improves athlete’s performance increasing 40 percent the chances of winning each games.
Some states in our country do test for anabolic steroids. It should be a mandatory issue to be able to test not just high school football players, but all student athletes around the country for steroids. Even in some cases schools are testing their athletes for marijuana and opiates. These drugs are not even performance enhancing drugs. Schools should save their money on those drug tests and actually test for something that is performance-enhancing and that is also hurting these young athletes.
The only physicians the author interviews in his book involve the topic of genetic doping. How could you write a book on steroids and not interview Harrison Pope, M.D. from Harvard, the leading expert on anabolic steroids? Jendrick dismisses the medical consequences of steroid use, blaming the media for sensationalizing and spreading misinformation about steroids. While I agree that the media uses scare tactics to alarm the public and grab more ratings, his claim that 99% of testicular shrinkage returns to previous size after discontinuation of steroids is more irresponsible.
Crystal meth is a street drug, made in illegal labs by chemically changing over-the-counter drugs. Making crystal meth usually involves reducing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, found in cold and allergy medicine. Making crystal meth is dangerous to the people making it and dangerous to the neighbourhood where it's being made. hydrochloric acid, methylamine, iodine, hydroiodic acid, lithium or sodium, mercury, and hydrogen gas. Crystal Meth Statistics * The average high from Crystal Meth lasts between 4-12 hours.
The first step to banning drugs was the Pure Food and Drug Act. This required patent medicines to label all of the ingredients in their products. Many of the smaller businesses were bankrupted because of this act but over hundreds of thousands of addicts remained. Companies like Coca-Cola almost were shut down because they didn’t want to stop putting Cocaine into their product (Johnson). The next step to banning drugs was the Heroin Tax Act.
Steroids and Wrestling By Misti Cavanaugh Psychology 111 March 22, 2010 Outline Steroids and Wrestling I. Introduction: A. After the murder/suicide death of Chris Benoit, the world of professional wrestling has been under the microscope of intense scrutiny from the media and the United States Congress, probing why many wrestlers die before the age of 45. The use of anabolic steroids and World Wrestling Entertainment go hand-in-hand. As one wrestler put it, “Like white socks and tape, its part of your gear.” Many wrestlers have admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs to “look the part” and taking pain killers to perform
The use of a steroid will build larger muscles, and reduce muscle damage that can occur during intense workouts. Many other countries have developed these steroids specifically for athletes and have no approved medical use. The reason anabolic have no approved medical use is because they have not been tested or approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). When the FDA has not approved a drug, it can be a serious health threat to people who use them (6). Studies have not been performed to prove the true effects because the dosages of the steroids are so high that in becomes an ethical problem.
Ryan Greene English 2 05-02-08 Steroids are a drug that shaped the modern sorts landscape. Steroids, also known as roids, juice, and gear are being used by pro and amateur athletes everywhere. This illegal drug has immense muscle building power; steroids are bad for sports for many reasons. Firstly steroids are illegal in America. Steroids unlike street drugs like cocaine heroine have bona fide medical uses but they are outlawed if not prescribed.
Debate Paper HAS 3104 April 15, 2012 According to "MedicineNet" (1996-2012), Assisted Suicide is “the deliberate hastening of death by a terminally ill patient with assistance from a doctor, family member, or another individual” (Definition of Assisted suicide). Many of us when we think about assisted suicide go directly to the one person who was most talked about in 1990’s Dr. Jack Kevorkian, it is said that this specific doctor made death his specialty. He became widely known for his “death machine” a device he invented that allowed a user to self-inject an anesthetic and then a lethal dose of potassium chloride. (He called the machine a thanatron, after Thanatos, the figure of death in Greek mythology.) ("Who 2 Biographies", 2011).
They recently passed a law that makes it illegal to possess anabolic steroids. This piece of legislation is aimed at gyms, where the rampant use of PED’s has led to many deaths (“Drugs in Sports” 18). While this legislation maybe somewhat limited in its scope, it is a step in the right direction. Parliament in Britain has been paying close attention to this issue and may be close to passing similar legislation. As in most things, this sort of following the leader is probably what is going to open the floodgates on regulating steroid and doping use.