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    Steroids In Sports

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    Steroids Have No Place in Sports Steroid abuse has become a huge problem in professional sports today. Athletes are now using steroids to gain a competitive edge over their opponents. Also, the athletes are using the steroids to recover quickly from major injuries or surgeries. Many former superstar athletes have been caught taking steroids during the season and offseason. Professional athletes take steroids to gain a competitive edge over their opponents in any way possible. Fame and money are

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    Narcotics In Sports

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    2015 Policy Paper #3 Sports and Drugs has been a very big problem in any national league sport. Narcotics has been used by many athletes including the Olympics. Drug use in any sport has an impact on the athlete who is using the drug and the sport they are in. I believe that this policy should be addressed because it will limit the drug use in any sport. It will also keep the athlete from hurting their professional career. How did sports and drugs become a public policy problem

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    One of the most debated topics in all of sports is whether performance enhancing drugs should be allowed. According to the free dictionary, performance enhancing drugs is defined as “Any drug used to gain an advantage in sports. Such drugs may improve endurance or strength or accelerate healing after injury”. Performance enhancing drugs was first acknowledged as a problem in professional sports in 1967 when the international Olympic committee created a medical board due to the heightened use. Today

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    Performance Enhancing Drugs “Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.” Once said Mark McGwire. The most commonly used performance enhancing drug(PED)is anabolic androgenic steroids. They are used to increase the ability to gain strength and work out. The other mainly used PED is human growth hormone which is also used to gain muscle. Performance-enhancing drugs in sports should stay illegal. They should stay illegal

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    Performance enhancing drugs should not be legalized ‘Olympic track star Marion Jones was sentenced in a federal court to six months in prison.’ (Kelly and Rao, 2008) The reason why Jones was guilty is because of the use of performance enhancing drugs since 1999. More and more famous athletes prove to have used banned drugs to enhance their performance. At the same time, the role that the anti-doping agency is more and more important in the world wide games, such as Olympic Game, Tour de France

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    Picture yourself being the best athlete in the world and in your sport. After you picture that imagine how you would feel if you were caught with steroids and banned. Your reputation is tarnished and everything you have done has gone to waste. This is what has happened to past athletes and is still happening to present athletes. Athletes have been using steroids since the 70’s and use quickly ascended in the 80’s and so forth into the early 2000’s. Steroids should not be able to be used by Athletes

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    blood doping, human growth hormones, steroid, beta-2 agonists. These are a few substances that come into mind when discussing the topic 'performance enhancing drug ' also known as doping. Doping is defined as the use of drugs to enhance performance and gain advantage over the other competitors, and it has been an ongoing problem in the sport community since the early centuries, with an increasing trend showing today. Envision yourself competing against an opponent who has been doping! How would you

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    Steroids are the single most abused performance-enhancing substance in the history of sports. As popular as the drug may be, the DEA listed anabolic steroids as a controlled substance under the Controlled Substance Act in 1990: meaning steroids can only be prescribed by a medical professional (Parks 12). Steroids are not only creating a poor image of professional sports, they also set a terrible example for the athletic, competitive youth of this generation. Children venerate their role models -

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    enhancing drugs What is a Performance enhancing drug? The internet labels a performance enhancing drug or (PED) as any drug or substance that is taken by an athlete to improve the athlete's performance in sports and games. Most of these drugs are illegal and are not allowed to be taken by any athletes. Some of the most common performance enhancing drugs that are used are beta-2 agonists, growth hormones and anabolic steroids. One of the biggest issues with the use of performance enhancing drugs is that

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    Why Should Doping Be Allowed In Sports In competitive sports, doping refers to the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs by athletic competitors, where the term doping is widely used by organizations that regulate sporting competitions. “Steroids, doping and other illicit performance enhancing drugs and treatments have become the biggest scourge of professional sports leagues, and that's why it may be time they were made legal” (Smith, Forbes). The agencies regulating and controlling

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