Running head: ENHANCEMENT DRUGS - FRIEND OR FOE?
Enhancement Drugs - Friend or Foe?
Enhancement Drugs - Friend or Foe?
It is not unusual now a day to open the newspaper to the sports section and read about athletes using performance-enhancing drugs to excel in their competitions. The pressure of excelling in competitions and finding short cuts to training hard has caused many athletes to taking performance-enhancing drugs even if they risk their health and athletic careers. Yet, there are memory-enhancing drugs that help the aging population with their memory loss. Performance-enhancing drugs when used properly are very beneficial, but abusing these drugs can be very dangerous. In the following paragraphs, I will give an example of performance-enhancing drug as well as memory-enhancing drug and of its dangers and benefits.
There are different types of performance-enhancing drugs, athletes use anabolic (male sex hormone) steroids because it increases the strength in......
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