ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY NAME: MOOSA YASIN TUTOR: EDWARD DA CUNHA DECEMBER 7, 2017 Abstract Since the beginning of sports competition, athletes have always wanted to win over other athletes. They will do whatever it takes to be one of the best and that includes injecting supplements into their bodies to make them bigger, stronger, and speedier. Steroid use is probably one of the most common drug misuses in sports competition. Athletes found that with anabolic steroids one could become a better athlete twice as fast. Not until 1975 was the drug first banned from Olympic competition because of the health risks it produced. Shortly thereafter, the rest of the sports world did not allow anabolic steroids as well. With …show more content…
Ergogenic acids include drugs such as amphetamine and methylphenidate increase power output at constant levels of perceived exertion and delay the onset of fatigue, among other athletic-performance-enhancing effects; bupropion also increases power output at constant levels of perceived exertion, but only during short term use, Creatine, a nutritional supplement that is commonly used by athletes, increases high-intensity exercise capacity. Anabolic drugs are another class of PEDs which build up muscle e.g. steroids hormones, most notably human growth hormone, as well as some of their prodrugs, selective androgen receptor modulators and beta-2 agonists. These are used by seniors in high school. The use of high performance enhancing drugs in sports has become very common within the past years. In the past, the athletes were able to win with their god gifted talent and hard work but in today’s world, the game depends entirely on the physiologist of athletes. Sports is meant to showcase natural talent in humans and their mental capability to go far beyond in competitions. It is not something which should be dependent on drugs. The use of performance enhancing drugs in the modern Olympics is on record as early as the games of the third Olympiad, when Thomas Hicks won the marathon after receiving an injection of strychnine in the middle of the race. The first official ban on …show more content…
They have terrible side effects on athletes and destroy their bodies in the long run. They give athletes advantage in sports which is a form of cheating in our opinion. They also promote a do-anything-to-win attitude and an attitude that “ideal” bodies cannot be achieved through hard work and effort. Most importantly, it is becoming famous between youngsters. Athletes using drugs are encouraging young people, who view them as role models, to use these drugs to improve their performance and the looks of their bodies. Science has played a huge role in the use of performance-enhancing drugs but they have not made them for this reason. REFERENCES 1. Rabinowitz V. Athletes and drugs: a separate pace? Psychol Today1992; 25:52–3. 2. Franckowiak B. Performance-enhancing drugs and the high school athlete. NASN School Nurse. July 2015. 3. Hatton CK, et al. Performance-enhancing drugs: Understanding the risks. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America. 2014; 25:897. 4. Metzl JD. Performance-enhancing drug use in the young athlete. Pediatr Ann. 2002;31(1):27–32 5. Greydanus D, Feucht C. Performance enhancing drugs and supplements. In: Patel D, Greydanus D, Baker R, editors. , eds. Pediatric Practice Sports Medicine. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2009:63–77 6. Shore R. How we got here: a timeline of performance-enhancing drugs in