In today’s professional sports world, PEDs has become an exchange of diverging or opposite views of the issue, as pros and cons are explained in the media, PEDs have negative and positive effects in the body. The use of drugs to enhance performance in sports made the sports world easier but more dangerous, Drugs in sports have positive effects mostly because it can make athletes stronger, faster and it also makes the game more entertaining, negative effects because doping can affect their health, not only their health but also their relationship with their loved once. Drugs in sports can help athletes in the short term by making them stronger and faster in a short period of time, but in the long term, it can weaken athletes’ health and relationships.
Performance-enhancing drugs will affect your health, claimed by, fox news writer, Amanda Woerner “PEDs may offer players some athletic advantage, but their impact on the long term health can be severe.”
Yes, stimulants can help boost physical performance and make athletes aggressive in the field but they have side effects that can damage athletic performance including, heatstroke, dehydration, Insomnia, which can halt an athlete from getting needed sleep, and lastly addiction or tolerance, which athletes think that they need greater amounts to gain the wanted effect, so it will tempt them to take doses that are much higher than the intended medical dose, which means using Performance Enhancing drugs is dangerous and, it is not a good choice to do to be better, it can affect your health which can harm or kill you. “Performance-enhancing drugs will affect both your health and relationships with your loved ones”(Pros cons). Because of addiction, none wants to see their loved ones being addicted to something dangerous that can kill them or harm them. Performance-enhancing drugs are drugs that can kill you or lead you to a broken relationship.
But on the other hand, performance-enhancing drugs can also help you gain more confidence. Individuals use performance-enhancing drugs for a variety of reasons, it can be when a “person is naturally weak, they should be allowed to improve their talents and become like those who have a natural advantage on them” or for persons who have “body image insecurity, desire to gain muscle mass or strength, Negative tendency to compare one’s appearance with others, and a lot more” (pro-con). Consuming these drugs bring desired changes in body composition and ultimately increase performance and confidence. Using performance-enhancing drugs will help you gain more confidence, not only that but “if athletes use performance-enhancing drugs it will make the sport more entertaining”(pro-con). It will make it more entertaining because as we know most of us to have favorite teams or players, and if they become better, stronger, or faster it will more likely become more interesting for us to watch them. If people gain more confidence, people will not be or will be less stressed and they will not plan to do something bad or commit suicide.
In the short term PEDs may be a good choice for athletes who want to be better, but in the long term PEDs should be your enemy, according to fox news writer, Amanda Woerner “PEDs may offer players some athletic advantage, but their impact on long term health can be severe.” Performance-enhancing drugs are good if used properly to build confidence, but if it is not used right PEDs can affect health and relationships with loved ones.