Drugs and Sports
Drugs and Sports | Mandatory Drug Fest in Sports: The War Against Drugs Is Failing on All Fronts
Luke Cyphers is a sports writer for the New York Daily News.
Summary: Drug testing, the main tool of the war on drugs in sports, fails to catch cheaters, erodes privacy rights, and sometimes unfairly tars honest competitors with drug abuse allegations. In elite sports, athletes who take recreational or performance-enhancing drugs will always find a way to cheat the drug tests. Testing in sports sets disturbing precedents for intruding on the privacy of others, including children.
With drug stories popping up across the playing fields...
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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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