Essays Tagged: "Performance-enhancing drugs"

Anabolic Steroids, use and side effects

Anabolic SteroidsDescription:Anabolic steroids are performance enhancing drugs. They are a synthetic form of the chemical testosterone that is normally found in the body. By ... w to the world. Since the time of the Greek Olympics athletes have been using performance enhancing drugs in order to heighten their athletic performance. In 1886 the 1st person to die due to performa ... mones. In the 1960's the IOC (International Olympic Committee) started to ban performance enhancing drugs due to their popular use. At the 1976 summer games in Montreal, the IOC initiated the first te ...

(10 pages) 340 3 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Sports Science

ver the last few years' science in sport has increased dramatically, with availability of many more performance-enhancing drugs many people have seen this as an option to easily win.There are differen ... vailable it is quite easily for the athlete to succeed in their chosen sport with a ride variety of Performance-enhancing drugs.However stricter rules have been applied to athletes and their sports, d ...

(1 pages) 70 1 2.7 Sep/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Ethical issues with drug use in the sports world

no drug screening tests available that can catch all those athletes that use performance enhancing drugs. This he concludes, means that the International Olympic Committee should get rid of all testi ... if they were to get rid of drug testing this may in a way condone the use of performance enhancing drugs in the highest level of sports. Also, would this get rid of a form of protection for the athle ...

(12 pages) 321 0 3.9 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Why we should not legalize performance enhancing drugs in sports.

for the rest of their life. We should protect athletes from themselves and not allow anyone to take performance-enhancing drugs.harmful to the athletesAnabolic steroid abuse has been associated with a ... ould no longer be able to compete on talent alone.Promotes drug useWhat about the children? Even if performance-enhancing drugs were only legalised for adults, the definition of this varies from count ...

(2 pages) 59 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Drug Abuse in Women

re said to be as ordinary as caffeine and as deadly as cocaine. This is just a little taste of what performance-enhancing drugs can do to an athlete.Not much is known about the drug abuse among women ...

(2 pages) 38 0 2.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Performance-enhancing Drugs: Improve Your Game, Destroy Your Brain

New advances in medicine and technology bring about an abundance of performance-enhancing drugs. Athletes today find ways to improve their minds and bodies in such a wa ... ating is right. Finally and most importantly, the use of these drugs is harmful to health. Although performance-enhancing drugs are beneficial to an athlete's game, they ultimately damage athletics as ... s has used steroids and been successful, younger athletes that are eager for quick success will use performance-enhancing drugs. In a recent national survey, 3.5 percent of high school seniors admitte ...

(3 pages) 66 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Why is doping in sports hazardous to our society?

his thrilling sensation for the spectators and for athletes as well, some athletes begin to turn to performance-enhancing drugs. Or they use the doping substances and doping methods to beat their oppo ... ce violates this motto and harms the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play. Besides, almost all the performance-enhancing drugs have side effects that can harm the health or may cause death to athlete ...

(1 pages) 37 0 2.3 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Enhancing Performance

ed in the world of sports have been around for years, ranging from the use of performance enhancing drugs to holding athletes on a higher pedestal than the rest of society. With more endorsement deals ... tes look up to sports stars as role models. If they see their role models use performance enhancing drugs and have shown by doing so, that they have accomplished great feats in the world of sports, wh ...

(7 pages) 101 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports

Performance-Enhancing Drugs in SportsNicholas GriggsWestern International UniversityCOM110Lisa Johns ... sa JohnsonDue Date: July 10, 2005The representatives in Washington, D.C. now want to pass more anti-performance-enhancing drug legislation aimed at professional athletes and not at the school-aged ath ... ur apply to the punishment of pro-athletes while the fifth item only requires a study of the use of performance-enhancing drugs in college and high school. In 1990, federal legislation passed making a ...

(7 pages) 162 0 4.4 Aug/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Performance-Enhancing Drugs: The Dark Cloud over Baseball

merica, baseball is the "National Pastime." In one of the darkest sports scandals in history, major performance-enhancing drug use has been reported and proven, as time and time again well-known athle ... the public a dicey situation, it endangers more than just reputation in the future. The effects of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball are the jealousy among players, impact on younger athletes, ...

(4 pages) 87 0 5.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Designer magic sponges

, tablets or injections. Besides that, this article also briefly touches on issue such as consuming performance-enhancing drugs.How many times are you down at the field, enjoying your favorite game of ... s such as ibuprofen.IbuprofenHowever, there are also people who would abuse the system by consuming performance-enhancing drugs. The practice of using artificial substances or methods to enhance athle ...

(2 pages) 19 1 3.7 Aug/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Pros and Cons of Synthetic Enhancement

Since recent scandals involving athletes and performance enhancing drugs, it has brought about the debate on what should and shouldn't be legalized. Steroids on one ha ... An estimated 1 million Americans, half of them adolescents, use black-market performance enhancing drugs. Countless others are choosing from among more than 100 other substances, legal and illegal, t ... physique boosters and performance enhancers.- Over half the teens who use performance enhancing drugs start before age 16, sometimes with the encouragement of their parents. In one study, 7 percen ...

(6 pages) 42 1 4.3 Dec/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Anabolic Steroids and The User

Anabolic steroids are performance enhancing drugs. They are a synthetic form of the chemical testosterone that is normally found in the body. By ... hat we would see a decrease in use amongst children and teens.The Presence of Performance Enhancing Drugs in SportsIn our world today, sports are amongst some of the highest competition we experience. ... human body.According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) the use of performance enhancing drugs in high school and professional sports has seen an increase over the last decade. Performance ...

(5 pages) 26 0 0.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The Steroid Game

oney being paid to these professional athletes, along with other causes, has caused them to use the drugs with little worry about health and legal damage. It is best to just call it what it is: cheati ... or the New York Yankees (Phillips). I am not claiming that Andy Phillips took performance enhancing drugs, but what I am saying is that, for an athlete on the edge of making a big league roster, anyth ...

(5 pages) 16 0 5.0 Dec/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Steroids

With the scouting date getting near, he turns to his last resort, the use of performance enhancing drugs, such as anabolic steroids. Not thinking of the long term effects of these performance enhanci ... try new things to be the best as what they do. In the early 1990's there were no physical enhancing drugs on the market for every day use. Then science decided to begin messing with the way the body c ...

(2 pages) 7 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The New Breed of Steroids

d in the headline, and describe the current situation in which rogue chemists are creating designer drugs to escape detection by scientists developing new technologies to identify drug users. Lastly, ... I will give you my opinion as to what I think should be done about the use of performance enhancing drugs.        In sports steroids are commonly used by players in order to have an ...

(5 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Performance enhancing drugs in sports

n as they risk their health and their athletic careers. Athletes may have several reasons for using performance-enhancing drugs.For example: 1. An athlete may want to build mass and strength of muscle ... on Olympic competition because they have legitimate clinical uses.There are many different kinds of Performance-enhancing substances. ?Anabolic Steroids are one of the most commonly used drugs of abus ...

(6 pages) 32 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Performance Enhancing Drugs

rugs French researches De Ceaurriz and Francoise Lasne has developed a urine test that can detect a performance-enhancing drug called erythropoietin. What erythropoietin does is boost the althetes per ...

(1 pages) 6 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports

Is the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports dangerous? To what degree do these drugs truly enhance strengt ... gs have had in professional sports.In order to understand why we are confronted with the problem of performance-enhancing drug use in athletics today, we must look at the history of the development of ... 9 Nov. 2000. 6 Nov. 2000 http://www.medstudents.com.br/sport2.html Gomez, Jorge M.D. (2003).Use of Performance-Enhancing Substances.Pediatrics Vol. 115(4), 1103-1106.Schwarzenegger, Arnold. Encyclope ...

(5 pages) 39 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Performance-Enhancement Drugs in Sports

nhance their body futures by putting something in your body that is naturally produced.The usage of performance-enhancing drugs in today sport is more often heard of; like in baseball, football, baske ...

(6 pages) 23 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol