The current issues that I choose to discuss is performance-enhancement drugs, performance-enhancement technologies, and cognitive enhancements by athletes. Many athletes choose to take performance-enhancing substances in order to bulk up muscle and build strength, but the use of performance enhancement substances is becoming more frequent in athletes in order to increase cognitive enhancement. Well known athletes, such as Barry Bonds, Marion Jones, Maria Sharapova, and Lance Armstrong has admitted to using performance enhancement substances. Many sport organizations inspect performance enhancements as wrong and unfair.
Drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall are not permitted for athletes to use. Ritalin and Adderall are prescribed for people who have ADHD and even healthy people use it to improve school and work performance. Critics of the drugs Ritalin and Adderall say that the drugs are addictive and dangerous. Supporters of the use of Ritalin and Adderall argue that the drugs can give someone an advantage in highly competitive fields. The conflict involves liberty and negative consequences. In terms of liberty,
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I want to focus on one specific issue. Should athletes be able to use performance-enhancement drugs? I do not believe that athletes should be able to use any type of non-over the counter drug. To simplify that more, I believe that drugs such as Ibuprofen, Advil, antibiotics, etc. are perfectly fine for athletes to use. I understand that athletes are going to have sore muscles and will need to use these minor drugs to help their pain. Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin I don 't agree with athletes using. Those specific drugs are meant to stable the mind and make you concentrate and focus more. I think a person who isn 't an athlete and has a problem where they need those drugs is acceptable to use. But I think when competing in a competition, everyone should be in their right state of mind and fully cognitive without drugs like Adderall and Ritalin in