Drugs and Sports
Drugs and Sports | Drug Use in Sports Is Not Eradicable
Matt Barnard is a journalist and writer for the New Statesman.
Summary: While many people find the idea of using performance-enhancing drugs disturbing, athletes, responding to internal and external pressures to win and to improve, will continue to use them. Society will eventually accept the fact that elite athletes will use any means, including drugs, in their quest for success. Drugs will eventually be as accepted in sports as they are in medicine and cosmetics.
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Table of Contents
- The Use of Performance- Enhancing Drugs Is Common
- Steroid Use Is a Growing Problem Among American High School Athletes
- State-Sponsored Drug Use Has Tarnished the Olympic Games
- Performance-Enhancing Substances Raise Serious Ethical Questions for Athletes
- The International Olympic Committee Stands Against Doping
- The Impropriety of Taking Performance-Enhancing Drugs Is Debatable
- Drug Testing for Athletes Must Be Improved
- Mandatory Drug Fest in Sports: The War Against Drugs Is Failing on All Fronts
- Athletes Have the Right to Accept the Risks and Benefits of Performance- Enhancing Drugs
- Banning Performance- Enhancing Drugs Is Justified
- The United States Must Spearhead Reforms to Eradicate Drugs in Sports
- Drug Use in Sports Is Not Eradicable
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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