Performance Enhancing Drugs
Performance Enhancing Drugs | Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Be Regulated, Not Prohibited
Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine.
Source: Performance-enhancing drugs allow athletes to train harder and improve their athletic performance over a short period of time. Many of today’s athletes take the drugs willingly and have grown increasingly uncertain about what is wrong with doing so. Drug testing by sports authorities is unreliable, and athletes are constantly taking new drugs for which no test has been devised. The attempt to ban certain drugs gives an advantage to those athletes with the means to take newer drugs....
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Table of Contents
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs: An Overview
- Athletes Will Never Stop Using Performance- Enhancing Drugs
- Athletes Must Stop Using Performance- Enhancing Drugs
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs Tarnish Athletics
- The Ban on Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Continue
- Teen Steroid Abuse Is a Growing Problem
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs Compromise Medical Ethics
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Be Regulated, Not Prohibited
- Ban Athletes Who Don’t Use Steroids
- Coming Soon: Open Olympics!
- The Health Risks of Steroid Use Have Been Exaggerated
- One Strike, You’re Out
- Performance-Enhancing Drug Testing Is Ineffective
- Performance-Enhancing Dietary Supplements Are Dangerous
- Performance-Enhancing Dietary Supplements Are Safe
- Genetic Engineering May One Day Replace Performance- Enhancing Drugs
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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