Allowing Performance Enhancing Drugs for sports The use of performance enhancing drugs in sports isn’t something that is a new problem. This has been around since the 1940s, when many popular athletes and bodybuilders took performance enhancing drugs to increase their muscle mass and to make training secession's better (Hoberman 3). Performance enhancing drugs(PEDs) has been around in the world since 1889 when Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard discovered a re-energizing therapy for the body, he reported injecting himself with this liquid extract made from testicles of dogs and guinea pigs(Hoberman 1). Performance enhancing drugs are able to alter the human body, including the ability to increase athletic ability(Effects 1). Drug testing in most sports is very common today. Although this problem has been around for many years, it still is a problem today. This problem about allowing these drugs or not is a big problem and is going to keep growing. Allowing performance enhancing drugs or not mainly affects athletes and people that are big sports fans that care about this topic. The use of Performancing enhancing drugs has been banned since 1991. This was because a big amount of baseball players was caught using them. The MLB didn't start …show more content…
The cost to test someone for the use of performance enhancing drugs is expensive. "The cost of a single steroid test can range from $80 to over $200"(Testing 1). Along with that, “only one athlete out of more than 6,000 tests at the 2012 Olympics was flagged for an anabolic substance"(Perez 15). A.J Perez says, "Nothing was accomplished by all these doping investigations. It’s just been one major witch hunt and a waste of taxpayer money”(37). All of these test cost money and all they were able to find was one person that was using performance enhancing drugs. They can’t keep spending all of this money to find out that most of their test were