Carla Mooney's Thinking Critically: Performance-Enhancing Drugs

While there are many different PEDs, every single one is harmful to the body in some way. Some effects on the human body are irreversible and they can cause lifelong damage for the user and loved ones. These drugs give competitors an unfair advantage over those who choose to stay clean. While in the short term performance enhancing drugs can lead to great victories and success. The long term damage caused and the immoral advantage gained is why PEDs are and should always be unethical to use in competitive sports and in healthy

In today’s society individuals see taking steroids as a choice made by the individual as a way to enhance their performance. However, in “We, the Public, Place the best Athletes on a Pedestals”, William Moller, the author, argues that the pressure from others can lead to the abuse of steroids. Athletes are often consumed with the pressure to perform well, so the they begin to take steroids. Students are often up late because of the amount of things that they have to juggle in one day. By overworking the youth and pushing them to be number one at everything can lead to the usage of Ritalin.

In sports these days, many athletes, from teenagers reach to adults, are taking performance enhancing drugs just to improve their performance by giving them extra force to win titles and medals. By considering the impact of athletics who are taking drugs, people should calculate the bad of it, to prevent the risks, the credibility and the responsibility. Firstly let’s start with the risk, there are different ways that using performance enhancing drugs can affect people’s life. One of the very important things to consider when people using the illegal substances are the health risk. There are a lot of physical problems than can come from performance enhancing drugs.

Although these consequences are important to take into mind, perhaps the most significant consequence is setting a bad example for children and teenagers who look up to these athletes. “A study published November 2012 in the journal Pediatrics reported that nearly 6 percent of middle school and high school girls and boys in the U.S have taken a steroid or growth hormone...” (Nourain). This has become a major concern in today 's world, as it could majorly impact the health of the young viewers. By athletes in Track and Field using PEDs the sport as a whole is influencing the public in a negative

In 2002, National institute of drug abuse study shows that 2.5%of 10th graders and 4% of 12th graders are abusing drugs. That’s why student athletes should be drug tested before their allowed to play. Drugs are mostly among athletes and it is influencing young people to use drugs. Yes because they are dangerous, and it can kill you or harm you and if you take drugs it causes bad health.There are different types of drugs that athletes use. They are anabolic steroids, androstenedione, human growth hormone (HGH), erythropoietin, diuretics, creatine, and stimulants.

Identifying the risks involved in the particular case scenario included a visitation to the student activity room and the taking of photographic evidence of the risk liability. There had also been complaints from the students about the potential hazard. The injuries likely to happen in this case scenario include injuries of body parts such as eyes, face, and back sustained by the ping pong players and passersby. Consequences of this risk liability may include the occurrence of subsequent risks such as ethical injuries that may occur due to the room losing goodwill from the students. According to American Sports Data Inc, sports injuries in the United States are becoming more prevalent (Lee, Farley & Kwon, 2010).

That means you are depending on the medication to help you perform verses using the gifts that has already been given to you to become successful. Tampering with gene doping by tinkering with genes that lead to more of EPO or testosterone so athletes could naturally produce more hormones seems dangerous. Tampering with muscles to enhance ability to compete seems to me as we have really lost our perspective on the role on what sports is all about and how it plays a role in our lives. Not only that but we are still not sure of all the side affects these drugs and even how tampering will affect the person long

In today’s society, sports happen to be an important part of culture. Whether it be watching or participating in the sport, it is easily seen that cheating is occurring more often. Some may say that cheating is the easier route to take because losing is too discouraging. Consequences for athletes such as the side effects of steroids, disqualification, and winning with guilt, are important because it reminds a person that cheating is not worth the time or action. The side effects of steroids are serious consequences that athletes face in sports because the harmful damages being done to their health is a painful reminder that cheating is the wrong way to go.

Psychologically birth control can be a great idea for both men and women because they are protecting themselves from an unplanned pregnancy. Women physically go through mood swings and serve depression and men have to support their females through the process. A woman with mood swings and depression could make a man feel depressed and moody as well and that is not beneficial to a relationship. Neuroscientist have reported that steroid hormones in birth control could affect the way a brain works. The thinner structure of the brain becomes damaged caused by synthetic estrogen and progestrogen.

Assuming that someone did not care about the lack of ethical behavior concerning cheating then at least they can strive to remember the importance of a student’s physical health. It is our moral responsibility to help our posterity make beneficial decisions and to direct them away from choices that will span drastic consequences – such as drug use. Obviously, our society’s extreme glorification for high performance in physical activity is so extreme and un-ethical that athletes will even risk side effects to be satisfactory in the area. In the case of Anabolic steroids (body building), some examples of these side effects in women would be increased body and facial hair, lower voices, loss of fat (including breasts), and other changes. Additionally, side effects in men include acne, baldness, heart disease, hypertension, impotence, stroke, liver damage, and prostate cancer.