Drugs and Sports | The Impropriety of Taking Performance-Enhancing Drugs Is Debatable
Gina Kolata is a science reporter for the New York Times.
Summary: Scandals involving performance-enhancing drugs are a recurring issue in the athletic world. However, some medical ethicists have questioned why drug use is so readily condemned by those who applaud other “unnatural” methods of improving one’s athletic performance, such as altitude training and special diets. They argue that the use of drugs as a training and performance aid should be an individual decision left up to the athletes.
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