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  • Essay / The Use of Performance Drugs in Sports - 1013

    More and more people in our society view winning as more important than winning. Success in competition brings status, popularity and fame, not to mention college scholarships. Today's athletes are looking for an edge over the competition that will make them winners. Unfortunately, today's drugs are caught in a frenzy of high-stakes competition. Faced with this reality, the use of performance-enhancing drugs among adolescents is becoming increasingly popular. In universities and professional leagues, many people take drugs and it ruins their health and their lives. Additionally, if some teens take performance drugs, they make them better than everyone else, giving themselves an advantage over everyone else, which is cheating. So why should they make money using drugs to win, how do we know they're not really good at it? sports? Performance drugs in sport should not be tolerated and should be illegal. Stores should not give teenagers drugs that allow them to succeed in sports. Many student-athletes want to make their family proud by doing something their father or mother never did. Most serious athletes will tell you that the will to win can be fierce. Besides the satisfaction of personal accomplishment, athletes often dream of winning a medal for their country, securing a place on a professional team, or making their family proud. In such an environment, the use of performance drugs has become increasingly common. But the use of performance drugs – that is, doping – is not without risks. “Take the time to educate yourself about the potential benefits, health risks and many unknowns regarding so-called performance drugs such as anabolic steroids, androstenedione, human growth hormone, erythropoietin, diuretics, the creation and...... middle of paper ...... an alcoholic drink made from delicious grape skins used by Zulu warriors to increase their combat prowess. "(World Anti-Doping Agency) The most famous sports that use performance drugs are baseball, basketball and mainly football. A famous baseball player named Nelson Cruz takes steroids and was suspended from the Major League of baseball for drug use Then they end up having fun, which in this case is doing drugs After they end up celebrating being late to their sports practice, they either get suspended or fired, I think they do. should do it because it's ruining their lives there. When they do that, the little kids they're looking for get into drugs too..