Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports
Athletes for centuries have been using enhancement drugs to achieve greatness(Burdick,2003) A Sixty Minutes interview of Jose Conseco conducted by Mike Wallace clearly shows how widespread and popular these drugs are. Athletes who are on them deny there use fully and denounce the drugs(Newsday.com,2005) Performance enhancing drugs are necessary in order to make the playing field fair and even.
In order to to understand why enhancement drugs are used, the public needs to know the different types, and what they do to the human body. There are three main types of enhancement drugs used by athletes. Anabolic, androgenic, and growth hormones are the categories in which they are grouped. Anabolic refers to muscle building. Androgenic refers to increased masculine characteristics.(2005,march NIDA Infofacts). Some widely used anabolic drugs are Testosterone, Dianobol, and Deca Durabolin. Widely used androgenic drugs are Equipoise,......
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