Should doping be allowed for athletes?

Dopers are cheaters. They take drugs to enhance their athletic abilities, giving themselves an unfair advantage. However, some argue we should allow athletes to dope. They claim if everyone dopes, no one athlete has an unfair advantage because everyone has the ability to enhance their performance.

Why doping in sports is a good thing?

Depending on the sport practiced and the physical attributes it requires, the athletes will look for one or more of the following benefits of doping: recovering from an injury, increasing body recovery capacity after training, increasing muscle mass and strength, decreasing fat tissue, increasing endurance.

What is considered doping in sports?

The History of Doping. The term “doping” refers to the use of prohibited medications, drugs, or treatments by athletes with the intention of improving athletic performance. The practice of doping by athletes dates back centuries.

Why athletes should be allowed to use steroids?

Steroids and doping will help pitchers to throw harder, home runs to go further, cyclists to charge for longer and sprinters to test the very limits of human speed. It also makes sense for professional sports to allow steroids from a business standpoint.

What are the disadvantages of doping?

Adverse effects related to human growth hormone range in severity and may include:

• Joint pain.
• Muscle weakness.
• Fluid retention.
• Diabetes.
• Vision problems.
• Carpal tunnel syndrome.
• Impaired glucose regulation.
• Enlarged heart (cardiomegaly)

Should we legalize steroids?

In conclusion, steroids should be legalized in the United States. The benefits of legalization include less abuse, monitored use, less cost to users, government regulation, and valid studies of benefits and risks to humans. For these reasons, steroids should be legal.

Is it cheating to use steroids in sports?

Using steroids to improve athletic performance is considered cheating, and can lead to athletes being penalized or banned from participating in sports. More importantly, using performance-enhancing steroids can have serious, long-term health consequences.

What are the consequences of doping in sports?

disqualification of results at an event, including forfeiture of medals. a ban from all sport (competing, training or coaching) for up to four years or even life in repeat or the most serious cases. publication of your anti-doping rule violation.

How can doping damage your body?

an increased risk of heart failure, stroke, kidney damage and high blood pressure. problems with your blood like infections, poisoning, overloading of your white cells and reduction of your platelet count. problems with your circulatory system.

Why we should legalize steroids in sports?

Why shouldn’t athletes use steroids?

When improperly used, anabolic steroids can cause serious health problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease; liver damage and cancers; and, stroke and blood clots.

Why is it unfair for athletes to use steroids?

Why, ethically, does the use of steroids in sports bother us? The medical issues are fairly straightforward. The use of anabolic steroids increases the athlete’s chance of getting liver cancer. Heavy or prolonged use can cause psychological and emotional problems—so-called “steroid rage.”