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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