Performance Enhancing Drugs

        Performance enhancing drugs are foreign substances or tactic for raise the body’s endurance and strength. It affect hormones and ıt cause of the muscularity. Nowadays, several athletes try to be better so, they use this kind of drugs. Sportsperson take some drugs to strengthen muscle and curtail cell’s recovery time. There is wide range of controversy about performance enhancing drugs and whether they are harmful or useful. However, using doping drugs could be beneficial. There are myriad of reasons; health, fairness and cost.

         One of the greatest point to performance enhancing drugs is the health. Legalization of the use of doping drugs could be cause of rampant drug using. Unchecked use of medicinal substance are induced some health problems. Anti-doping restriction is required to inhibit injury from doping. On the other hand, sport is hazardous even if drugs are not taken. For instance, playing football has high risk for knee and ankle problems, moreover, and boxing can lead to brain damage ( Kayser, Mauron and Miah, 2009). Moreover, utilizing drugs under a doctor’s supervision is reduced the risk of side effect.

       Opponents of legalization of the doping drugs claim that using foreign substances do not provide fair competition. Taking doping drugs are increased the change of win a competition without any practice. They defend that if athletes do not take a drugs, they waste unnecessarily effort against the people who use doping on the competition; on the contrary, genes may be reason the disequilibrium. According to Egendorf (2007) “one theory states that European distance runners lag behind their African counterparts because African runners, such as those from Kenya and Ethiopia, can resist fatigue longer and o farther on the same amount of oxygen. Studies also show that Kenya runners tend to have slimmer legs then European runners, which means they do not need as much energy to run. Examination of this subject can be difficult, as it can lead to controversial conclusion on racial difference; however, physical evidence does suggest that body types are not universal.” (p. 8-23)

        Opponents also maintain that performance enhancing drugs’ costs are so high; nevertheless, ıf athletes do not take doping drugs, they have to pay much money to gym, since they want to be accomplished athlete and their genes are not enough for this kind of success. For this reason, taking drugs are not costly than doing exercise. Additionally, ethical justification of forbidding the utilizing of ergogenic stimulant in sports is inadequate. As the price of anti-doping control escalates year on year, ethical protest are increased that are heaviness than the ethical quarrel for performance enhancing drugs (Kayser, Mauron, and Miah, 2009).

       The foregoing discussion has attempted to performance enhancing drugs should be legal. The harmful lack of drugs, injustice of competitions and financial effect leads us to the conclusion that using doping drugs should be legalized. Sport ethic rules should contain some subject about being legalization of drugs.

References:

Kayser, B., Mauron, A., and Miah, A., (2009) Some Performans Enhancing drugs should be legalized. In T.L. Roleff  (ed.) The Olympics (pp.76-79) Farmington hills MI: Greenhaven press

Egendorf, L.K. (2007) performance enhancing drugs (pp8-23) San Diego CA: ReferencePoint press