Performance Enhancing Drugs Verses Technology Cheryl Spink COM/156 December 20, 2013 Valentine C. Angell Performance Enhancing Drugs Verses Technology Great athletes, such as, Lance Armstrong, Sammy Sosa, Chris Benoit and Arnold Schwarzenegger abused performance enhancing drugs. These were men idolized by people young and old, which have created an inappropriate effect on the youth of today. Athletes abusing performance enhancing drugs causes long-term side effects and inappropriate role modeling to others. Some argue if there is a moral difference in performance enhancing drugs or performance enhancing technologies (7). There are many types of performance enhancing drugs and technologically advanced equipment.
As with soma, prescription drugs (where prescribed or otherwise) provide a quick fix for physical or mental problems and/or a way to get high. But these drugs also hurt the users, with addiction, bodily functions failing and making them be violent. The use of drugs has severe effects on the users and not only in reality but also in Brave New World. Usually people turn to drugs for relief and contentment, they want to be in a state of mind where they can feel things which they usually can’t and to be in a state of pleasure so they turn to them. Most do not realise the harsh long term effects these drugs can
Steroids can cause high blood pressure which can damage the heart or blood vessels. Liver damage, it can effect your growth, reduce your sperm count, causes impotence, and enlarged your prostates. For the females it can causes breast reduction, menstrual problems, and she can develop male features. “We all know a brother don't want that.” Steroids can not only effect us physically but emotionally too. A person can become angry, hostile, depressed, develop thoughts of suicide, anxiety, panic attacks, hallucinations, and sever mood swings.
Meth addiction harms the body in a horrific way, the drug is made up of chemicals that can kill a person also leading to the addiction, and in order to get over the drug it’s a continuous battle the person must want it for themself, and have the strength over their own mind they can’t be weak or they will fail and relapse. In the beginning use of Meth there are not many changes in appearance, but within a couple months a person’s whole appearance can be changed. The body tends to get very thin, and for most people their skin starts getting picked at leaving open wounds. The appearance can change so fast that the person may not even be recognizable. Not only does the appearance change so do the mind.
Colton Torrance 11/21/13 Philosophy Term Paper Why steroid use for athletic enhancement is not morally wrong The use of steroids for athletic enhancement has been one of the most contentious aspects of many sports for the last couple of decades. With the innovation of more enhanced drug tests along with improved performance-enhancing drugs, this matter has only become more prevalent. At almost any level of sports, whether it be high school football or the Olympics, steroid use is practiced world-wide at an increasing rate. Furthermore, despite the attempts to prevent the use of steroids by the NCAA, WADA, and any other association/organization that drug tests athletes, which cost more money every year due to the need to test more athletes
MLB Should Apply a Mandatory Steroid Test for All Players In today’s sports world, there have been many problems with players cheating the game by using drugs to make them perform better. Many sports today have not applied testing for all players and have regretted not doing it awhile back. The drug problem is mostly hurting Major League Baseball the most but has an effect on all sports. There are players that are playing the game without using steroids therefore whom are being cheated out because players are making more money by performing better because of the use of steroids. Furthermore, this is hurting the reputation of the MLB because fans have lost respect for their heroes who have always thought they were playing the game correctly.
Steroids, Greatly Misunderstood It’s not your typical everyday conversation between you, friends, and family but when the subject of steroid use is brought up immediately everyone thinks of oversized muscle heads suffering from either “roid-rage“ or suicidal tendencies. In actuality these are extreme cases that get extra hype and publicity because of the few but intense incidents that the media focus their attention on. This skeptic view created by the news stations across our nation has tarnished the use of steroids and the benefits they bring with an image of drug dealers and deformed body builders. How dangerous are steroids? Anabolic steroids are essentially extremely safe and greatly beneficial for numerous health complications.
Steroids are unhealthy and they damage internal body parts of people that use them. Using a steroid may severely jeopardize the health of its users. It can cause liver problems, which could in turn lead to liver failure, and causes chemical unbalances which bring about rage, and in turn can cause the user to be a threat to others around them. It has a list of side effects that harm many but is most dangerous to younger people. Steroid use in high schools is only continuing to increase.
In a way, that is all of the student athletes out in the world that have worked so hard to develop their natural talents just to have their spot taken by someone who has injected steroids into their system. There are both negative mental and physical side effects that come with taking steroids. One of the most commonly known side effects is steroid rage. That is when the steroids cause people to be moody and want to get in fights and tare up things, this can be very harmful for anyone who is normally around someone on steroids. The person on steroids could at anytime just take a turn for the worst and injure or possibly even kill someone.
Now days there is a big problem, Pro athletes are using illegal antibiotic steroids to get an upper hand on the competition. Drug testing is a critical part of the major sports because of steroids, but some people feel like if you snooze you lose. When adult chooses to do something wrong they know exactly what they