“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.
They cause acne and erectile dysfunction. I know that there are different kinds of steroids. Barry Bonds, the man who beat the homerun record, was accused of taking steroids, but he stated that he had never taken steroids in his life. Part 2: Why I chose this topic I am a very talented sports player and I know that at one point in my life I am going to be offered steroids. I became interested in this topic because in my favorite sport, baseball, thirty Major League Baseball players were tested positive for using steroids.
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This book is also an eye opener for anyone that did not live through or old enough to remember the attacks discussed. I remember the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the bombing of the USS Cole, and the African embassy bombings but not the details. I think that is why I did further research to remember the attacks. Hopefully anyone that reads this will also do the extra research for more first accounts of the attacks to even better understand what was going on in the United States at the time before 9/11, to see how life has changed since and how far we have come with the “war on terrorism.” Terrorism is unfortunately a constant issue but with the law enforcement agencies hopefully working together they can prevent another attack from happening
Barry Bonds and other athletes have been accused of using illegal steroids to help themselves boost their statistics, and ability to play the game better. These accusations all came about after a book was written about Bonds and other athletes called, “Game of Shadows,” which talks about how athletes were
Dillingham states that steroids are a form of cheating creating an unfair advantage to those who take them breaking the social contract athletes have implicitly agreed to: We are going to have a fair contest (Dillingham 91). GH abuse became an important issue in 1988 when Ben Johnson’s won the 100 m final at the Olympic Games in Seoul (Richard I.G. Holt 86). Society would soon become to consider the use of GH as a form of cheating. The use of performance enhancement drugs increases the amount of testosterone in the user’s body, which aide’s intense exercise training to build body mass at a
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
Because of this, negative actions and behaviors that are attributed to variables other than the type of drug, variables such as the method of administration or distribution, were mistaken for attributes of the drug itself. This led to incorrect perceptions of crack cocaine and the eventual adoption of overly stringent drug policy concerning crack cocaine. At the time congress was operating under the assumption that crack cocaine was pharmacologically different from powder cocaine as well as 50 times more addictive than its powder counterpart, for good measure the number was doubled creating the current 100:1 ratio (Coyle, 2002). However, intentional or not, in reality the guidelines punish the poor, those who choose the cheaper form of what is essentially the same drug, more severely ending in a disparate impact for the most part on behalf of the inner city African American
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.
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.