I never really considered or wanted to consider how many professional athletes are using performance enhancing drugs. I do not think there is one good thing about implemting them into our sports, even if they are strictly regulated. It does not really matter how regulated they are athletes will still find ways to push the limits and continue to give themselves the amount that they want to see the results they wish to see. I feel that performance enhancing drugs have really tainted the sanctity of sports and what it is meant to represent. Sports are suppose to be about teamwork and competition and learning how to particpate and what it means to be dedicated; when you throw something like performance enhancing drugs into the mix it takes all of that away.
PEDs not only hurt the person using them they hurt the people around them. The negative side effects associated with PEDs effect their families and younger athletes who look up to those professional athletes as role models. It sends a message to the younger athletes, telling them in order to get where you wanna go you need to use a form of PED.
Alisha Rosen
LT 24
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