...Performance enhancing drugs –also known as PEDs, have caught the eye of almost every sports fanatic, athlete, or coach in the world due to the fact many professional athletes use them and get caught. Many know what PEDs are because the name explains itself, they are drugs –usually synthetically made, to enhance a player’s performance. PEDs come in many shapes and sizes; have different effects on the body and consequences if players are caught using them. Performance enhancing drugs are such a controversy in today’s society, but why are athletes using them in the first place? Everyone that has anything to do with the sports world knows about performance enhancing drugs and how big of a role they play in sports. Although there is so much that goes unknown to the world about PEDs. PEDs are not for athletes specifically, one example is the pill, Viagra, which is used to enhance the bedroom performance. We all have seen the commercials, but performance-enhancing drugs are also used far beyond the bedroom. In sports, PEDs are used to improve an athlete’s performance in their chosen sport. In David Mottram’s book, Drugs in Sport, he defines PED’s as a...
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...to lose three million dollars out of his eight million salary. As an MLB spokesman shares with CNN that Braun is welcome to return after his suspension, as long as he’s making positive decisions that benefit Major League Baseball, whether it’s on field or off the field. Many professional athletes use PEDs to bulk up, build more muscles, and endurance; however, using PEDs nonstop can result in side effects like strokes, heart attacks, and death when used incorrectly. For the last couple of years, professional athletes from different sports have been caught for the use of PEDs or any other type of steroids, the players, usually a well-known person like Lance Armstrong and Alex Rodriguez. Although, the aid of performance enhancing drugs may provide entertainment to sports they also betray the values of sportsmanship; as well as give an unfair advantage over those who choose not to use PEDs. Many professional athletes know that taking steroids is bad for their health even if only used for a short period of time; however some do it anyway for money. It’s clear that professional athletes who sign bigger contracts make more money and this will likely cause them to turn to the use of PEDs. For example, Alex Rodriguez who is the highest paid baseball player makes 27 million...
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...Enhancing Drugs in Sports In a world where everyone is looking for a way to gain an advantage on their competition, professional sports are no exception. In the past thirty years we have seen the rise and fall of the notorious steroid era surrounded by the pre-steroid era and its ongoing fallout. Each of our four main professional sports leagues, The NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB, have all had their own specific bouts with the same controversial issue; each of the four main sports leagues have all had to come up with their own interpretations, rulings, punishments, and general code of conduct when it comes to handling situations involving Performance Enhancing Drugs or PEDs. To further understand the issue of PEDs in domestic sports here in the US you need to take a step back and look at some of the larger scale events that effected what turned out to be the “steroid era”. Starting off in 1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his Olympic Gold Medal for testing positive for an anabolic steroid. Less than two months after Ben Johnson had his medal taken away, President Ronald Regan signed an act outlawing non-medical steroids sales as a part of his war on drugs; less than two years later congress passed the Anabolic Steroids Control Act which placed steroids in the same legal class as other drugs such as amphetamines, opium, and morphine. Scandal brought legal action, legal action turned into more strict legal action, and finally the first of the four major sports leagues got...
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...plans to be stronger and healthier. But, one of the most controversial ways of increasing athletic ability is by taking performance enhancing drugs. Performance enhancing drugs can become a big part of athletes’ lives and have the potential of becoming very addictive, because players may see a major change in their performance. Athletes like Lance Armstrong, Wes Welker, and Alex Rodriguez have all used some form of performance enhancing drug. While it may seem like a good route for some major athletes, they end up losing some respect and their right to play and compete. So a major issue that sports authorities are facing now is whether...
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...PEDS standing for Performance Enhancing drugs, most commonly referred to as steroids. The question is though how do these PED’s effect baseball? Why do people feel the need to take steroids in baseball? I’ll tell you why it helps you in everything you do on the diamond, from running to throwing and to hitting it helps you achieve things you never saw possible as a normal person. It help you out to a point that it is just unfair and not fit for baseball. Steroids have changed baseball as we know it and not in a good way. They have made the Major League of Baseball or also known as the MLB look a question such as, Are PED users able to make it into the Hall of Fame? What is the appropriate consequence for these players getting caught? And is...
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...Key Terms Anabolic steroids Compounds derived from testosterone that promote tissue growth and repair. Anabolic refers to processes in the body that covert simple substances into more complex compounds (Uretsky, 2006). Anorexia Athletica A disorder of compulsive exercising. People tend to be more obsessed with maintaining abnormally low body fat percentage than with body weight (Davidson & Porter, 2013). Blood doping The use of products that enhance the uptake, transport, or delivery of oxygen to the blood. Blood is taken out a few months before competition and then packed, frozen, and stored. A few days before competition, the blood is returned to the body to increase the red blood count by up to 20% (Blood Doping, 2007). Erythropoietin...
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...The Ethics, Effects, and Fairness of PEDs Despite being banned in many leagues and competitions, steroids are still used to gain an edge over other competitors. Athletes use steroids without any regard to the ethics that accompany the intake of drugs. There are many reasons why competitors should, in fact, follow the rules set in place and stop using steroids completely. Performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should completely stop being used in competitions or leagues. First of all, anabolic steroids are known to be bad for your health. PEDs have unpleasant, undesirable side effects. The United States Anti-Doping Agency lists the symptoms of using PEDs, which include ”liver damage, stunted growth, increased aggressiveness, leukemia, anemia,...
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...It has been a constant debate recently whether steroids and performance enhances should be allowed in sports today. This topic usually occurs in baseball but in recent discoveries, many football players are condemned for doping. Vast names in sports such as: Ray Lewis, Alex Rodriguez, and Christian Laettner were all suspended by their respected leagues for doping. Steroids should be banned in professional sports today because they give athletes unfair advantages, they’re horrible to the athletes’ body, and there can be severe side effects. There are copious types of steroids that athletes use. “The most common type of steroids that athletes use are anabolic steroids, or synthetic versions of the male hormone, testosterone” (Quinn). This particular...
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...performance enhancing drugs be acceptable in professional sports? This is a debate that has been going around for years. In my opinion you should be able to use performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in professional sports. Why not? At this point, hearing someone was caught using PEDs barely raises and eyebrow, so why not responsibly use our resources? In my opinion there is a difference between drug use and abuse. Scientists could use all the time that they use for testing people to show people and to find out how to use PEDs responsibly and safely. In sports, all athletes have different ways for training, diets, and gear. All athletes do things different from the other competitors yet we don’t consider that cheating. 20 out...
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...this really put the MLB in the direction they and the fans want? Although some researchers and critics may consider performance enhancing drugs a method of cheating, PEDs actually benefit professional leagues by increasing fan interest, revenue, and levels of play. If performance enhancing...
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...“A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game” (Ueberroth). This idea of a cloud hanging over baseball and how drugs are permeated the game is how PEDs have spread through the MLB and ruined the league. The prospects see these great major leaguers using these drugs and look up to them, therefore start to take drugs. Teenagers these days are looking up to their favorite major league players, yet most of them are using performance enhancing drugs. If we find out that one of our favorite players are using these, we should really focus on the negative outcome of their actions. Lord of the Flies is a great example of what MLB players will do to conceal their drug usage. For example, Jack tried so hard to stay...
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...How are performance enhancing drugs (PEDS) affecting the future of sports? Although many PEDS are banned by the USADA, there is a reason why some should be allowed. The war between sports and drugs has been going on for a long time and is affecting all sports. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), is the national anti-doping organization (NADO) for Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American, and Parapan American sports in the United States. They try to preserve the integrity of competition , inspire true sport, and protect the rights of athletes. Drugs not allowed by the USADA include erythropoietin, anabolic steroids, stimulants, human growth hormone, and diuretics. The USADA collects urine and blood samples to test for drugs. They inform athletes of the results of their drug tests and also manage any potential anti-doping rule violations....
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...enhancing drugs such as steroids are essential to achieve success. “I’m on steroids, what do you think? Who do you think I am? I'm a baseball player, baseball players take steroids. How do you think Bonds hits all his home runs? How do you think all these guys do all this stuff? You think they do it from just working out normal?” This a letter a high school baseball player wrote to his father before committing suicide. Once again teens sustain in steroids to achieve excellence and it will ruin these kids lives. However since steroids has not been...
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...throughout their career for many reasons. PEDs(Performance Enhancing Drugs), HGH(Human Growth Hormone), and other substances can be very dangerous for the body internally...
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...The term “PED” (Performance Enhancing Drugs) is often referred to as just steroids. Spectators of the game see steroids as the only form of PED’s, however there are other types of them. Such as, Androstenedione and HGH (Human Growth Hormones). All types of PED’s cause harm to the body even if one can not see it. HGH can act as a healant but does cause dangers to the body as it adds extra hormones that the body can not normally handle. For the truth, there are both pros and cons to using PED’s. Perhaps the cons outweigh the pros. For doping in the MLB (Major League Baseball) it has a major effect on the game. It’s a very controversial topic due to arm speeds increasing, baserunning speed increasing and bat speed increasing. This affects the...
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