Categories: All - division - addiction - health - influence

by Brett Visser 4 years ago

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Performance-Enhancing Drugs Allowed in Sports

Permitting performance-enhancing drugs in sports poses significant health risks and can lead to addiction, impacting athletes beyond their professional careers. It creates an unfair playing field, where the true talent of athletes cannot be accurately gauged, fostering resentment and aggression among competitors.

Performance-Enhancing Drugs Allowed in Sports

Performance-Enhancing Drugs Allowed in Sports

Public Influence

Doping becomes regular among younger and younger athletes
Kids look to their favorite athletes and think doing drugs is ok
Spike in young athletes doping

Devaluing the sport itself

Two types of athletes exist, thus a separation in the sports field as a whole.
Divided athletes, less sense of unity
Kids joining sports for the wrong reasons
False sense of hope for young atheltes

Unsafe/Dangerous

Some drugs can be addictive thus resulting in use outside of athletic performance.
Could result in adverse health effects for athletes

Unfair Playing Field

Rewarding dangerous behavior
More rewards = more similar behavior
Won't know which athletes are truly the best
More anger exchanged between equally talented athletes
Not all athletes will take the drugs
How do normal athletes compete with those taking the drugs?