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Should Athletic Doping to Be the Best Become Legal?

By Blake N. Carlock

differences in both size and strength of your


muscles. Now, imagine you have been
taking this PED for a few months and have
been enjoying your newly gained abilities,
however you start to experience strong
mood swings, high blood pressure, and even
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depression and notice you dont feel as good

Imagine joining an athletic league or

as you did when you originally started using

competitive sports team and quickly

the drug. Next, you try a different PED and

realizing you arent as fast, as strong, or as

begin to feel like your old self again,

naturally gifted as your fellow teammates.

performing remarkably in your sport, and

Next, think about how you would feel about

this continues for another couple months.

the thoughts racing through your mind if

Eventually, these PEDs take a negative toll

you heard about the ability to become faster,

on your physical health, such as strong

bigger, and stronger in only a short amount

mood swings, high blood pressure, and even

of time. All youll have to do is start

depression, all for the gain of temporary

injecting a performance-enhancing drug

strength and speed.

(PED) (pictured above) everyday and

The health risks associated with

workout as hard, or harder than you

performance-enhancing drugs clearly

normally do, and in a very short timeframe

outweigh the gains acquired from their use,

you will begin to experience major physical


although currently more and more people of

and reviewing hundreds of medical patient

all ages are using these substances to get an

files regarding the illegal prescription of

edge over their competition no matter the

performance-enhancing drugs, like human

physical cost to themselves. With current

growth hormone and steroids to athletes by

widespread consumption on the rise, should

medical doctors, Despite the fact that these

performance-enhancing drug use by athletes

drugs were taken under medical

remain banned, or should it be legalized

supervision, there were a large number of

under medical supervision? Although PED

serious adverse reactions. The adverse

use leads to quick results, due to the

health effects associated with the use of

negative side effects that remain

PEDs while under medical supervision

permanently after discontinuing the use of

seem to have the same results as

PEDs, and the blatant fact that using

unsupervised PED use, leading to question

anything to gain an inequitable advantage is

whether legalizing their use is the right path

considered cheating, PEDs should remain

for the future of sports.

banned in athletics.

The side effects are numerous and

Health Effects of PED Use

the information is readily available online

Currently, the facts show that its no

concerning PED use. For example,

safer for an athlete taking PEDs without

according to Mayo Clinic Staff at

medical supervision, than with the medical

MayoClinic.com, PEDs adverse health

supervision. Dr. Gary A. Green, a clinical

effects affect both men and women and

professor of Sport Medicine at UCLA, says

include: growth of body hair, elongated

that after working with the Drug

clitoris, and abnormal or infrequent

Enforcement Agency (DEA) for many years

menstruation in women, shrinking of testes,

growth of breasts and impotency in men,

Hippocratic Oaths morals that doctors

and deepening of voice, high blood pressure,

swear to uphold. According to

liver damage, body acne, severe mood

Wikipedia.com, the oath has been rewritten

swings, balding, high cholesterol,

many times, although nowadays various

depression, and infertility/sterility in both

modernized versions are often used; the

genders.

message delivered is still the same, Do no


Harm.

Dr. Urban Weising, a professor at the

Clinical and Sports Medicine

University of Tuebingen, Germany, has

Professors Sarah Grogan, Sarah Shepherd,

appealed to and has advised the International

Ruth Evans, Sam Wright, and Geoff Hunter,

Olympic Committee (IOC) on more than

conclude the findings of their study of both

one account about the ethical issues

men and women and their personal use of

associated with health risks of PED use

PEDs discovering, It emerged that serious

stating, That [not being concerned with an

side-effects were de-emphasized [by PED

athletes negative health decision] would

users] relative to short-term gains. No

certainly be unacceptable, even if the athlete

matter the risks, athletes had continued and

were willing to accept the risks and

still continue to use PEDs for the glory of

damaging effects, because it is inconsistent

the short-term strength and speed gains. This

with the favorable health requirements of

problem has been a pain in the side of

sport. He continues by explaining that

multiple anti-doping agencies and multiple

certain health problems cannot be detected

sports such as baseball and football for

by close medical inspection, because the

many years. For example, Wikipedia.com

problems manifest themselves over long

shows between May 7, 2007 and June 16,

term PED use. This correlates with the

2016, forty-five Major League Baseball

States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and

(MLB) players were caught and penalized

the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA),

with multi-game suspensions for their illegal

are to protect the health of athletes and to

use of PEDs. The MLB is a highly regarded

prevent unfair competition, and the use of

professional sports organization that is well

PESs [Performance-Enhancing Substances]

known for their recent and ongoing

is identified in a survey of adults as the most

crackdown of athletes PED use.

serious issue facing sports today. Many


people in athletics, including coaches and

Cheating and Competitive Fairness

other athletes, feel that an athlete who can


Fairness in sports is a required ethic

morally cheat and accept unfair competition

that should be followed by all athletes and


coaches. A clinical

should be penalized severely because they

Cheating is the deliberate, knowing,

report published in the


American Academy of
Pediatrics titled Use of

and voluntary violation of certain

truly represent
unsportsman-like
behavior. Donald

constitutive rules in order to gain a

Hooton, a father and

Performance-Enhancing

competitive advantage. Since the

coach says, Players

Substances, by Michele

violation is knowing, the attempt to

that are guilty of

LaBotz, MD, FAAP,

gain an advantage is illegitimate

taking steroids are

Bernard A. Greisemer,

and unethical, and the advantage

MD, FAAP, from the


Council on Sports

sought is thus unfair.

not only cheaters,


you are cowards.
Donald Hootons

Medicine and Fitness,

son, a former baseball player, committed

defines the problem and objective of a

suicide possibly due to the side effect of

couple anti-doping agencies, like the United


depression while using PEDs to become

illegitimate and unethical, and the advantage

better in his sport.

sought is thus unfair. Unfair gameplay has


no place in competitive sports because it

Dishonesty is unfortunately almost

simply goes against the experience of

everywhere and catching the players who

witnessing natural talent and the amazing

cheat in sports is becoming increasingly

feats that athletes who possess those

difficult. Dr. Green further comments on the

natural abilities can exhibit.

National Collegiate Athletic Associations


(NCAA) research, which exposed the truth

Health Is Traded For Superficial Desires

of PED users in athletics showing,

By now, we can see the correlation

approximately 15% of anabolic steroid

between PED use and their negative health

users obtain them [PEDs] from a

effects, and the understanding that an

physician. Whether or not the NCAA sets

unnatural advantage is considered

bans on PED use, some athletes are

cheating, but why do some athletes continue

obviously feeling they can continue cheating

to risk their health? This argument seems to

by circumventing those regulations and

return to one important component, which is

involving a doctor to prescribe them the

the right to choose what you will or wont

PED for medicinal reasons. Professor

put into your own body. According to Dave

David Fairchild, PhD, from Perdue

Anderson, author of 10 Reasons

University declares, Cheating is the

Performance Enhancing Drugs Should Be

deliberate, knowing, and voluntary violation

Legal, athletes feel that because their body

of certain constitutive rules in order to gain a

is their personal property that taking drugs

competitive advantage. Since the violation is

for personal use shouldnt be anyone elses

knowing, the attempt to gain an advantage is

business. Despite an athletes freedom of


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choice to ingest or administer substances to

opinion and help preserve the protective

their body, the negative health effects from

health regulations of current and future

PED use and its link to cheating are two top

athletes, you can visit the USADA, the

reasons they currently remain banned in elite

WADA, and/or the NCAA websites (links

competition where there is an overseeing

on the right), and petition them to continue

anti-doping agency. If you work long and

the ban on PED use in sports. These anti-

hard at what you want, your achievements

doping agencies ensure the well-being and

will last longer than anything you gain

overall health of any athlete who competes

quickly and easily by cheating. If the

in collegiate, national, and international

concern is aesthetics, or looks, just

sports. Please use common sense and good

remember that a natural athlete will

moral judgment by saying No to doping.

maintain their physique longer and easier


than the physique of someone who used
PEDs. According to Bodybuilding.com, a
PED users muscles will shrink faster than
the surrounding skin [causing a] condition of
loose[r] skin than in a non-PED user.
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Comprehensive and transparent

Links For Anti-Doping Agencies

educational information on the adverse


health effects from the use of PEDs in

USADA www.usada.org

WADA http://www.wada-ama.org

NCAA - http://www.ncaa.org/sport-

sports will need to be made widely available


in all sports and athletic programs in the

science-institute/caa-drug-testing-

country. If you would like to voice your

program
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