Performance Enhancement Drug Use In Sports
Performance Enhancing Drug Use in Sports
Jeremy Sweat
Western International University
COM 110
Patty Lucas
December 21, 2005
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 strength, size, training ability, and muscular performance? Not only are the answers to these questions still unclear, they are the subjects of deep controversy. This paper will examine those two major issues, first dealing with steroids and their effect on athletic performance and attitude then dealing with various effects that drugs 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 anabolic steroids: a group of powerful synthetic chemical compounds that resemble the natural male sex hormones (Schwarzenneger 722). Anabolic steroids were first......
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