Performance Enhancing Drug

More and more, our society views winning as something more important than the game itself. Success in competition brings status, popularity and fame, not to mention college scholarships. Today's athletes are looking for an advantage over the competition that will help make them winners. Unfortunately, the adolescents of today are caught up in this high stakes competition frenzy.

Performance enhancing drugs can be regarded in four classes: androstenedione, creatine, anabolic steroids, and ephedra alkaloids.

Drugs had long been used to enhance performance, explained Dr Linder. For example, anabolic steroids had been used to increase aggressiveness during the 1939-45 world war..

Stimulants were used to induce euphoria, increase alertness and to decrease perceptions of fatigue.
Caffeine was a proven performance-enhancer, although it required plasma levels of more than 12mg per ml, the equivalent of a 1000mg dose in three hours.

Nicotine was historically believed to improve performance and he was expecting to find an athlete wearing multiple nicotine patches one day.

Depressants had also found a place in sport. Alcohol and marijuana caused relaxation and increased confidence but generally impaired performance.

So is cheating here to stay? Drugs are against the rules. But we define the rules of sport. If we made drugs legal and freely available, there would be no cheating.

The World Anti-Doping Agency code declares a drug illegal if it is performance enhancing, if it is a health risk, or if it violates the “spirit of sport”. These are all physiological side effects of performance increasing drugs :

• hypertension (EPO/hGH)

• blood cancers/leukemia (EPO/hGH)

• Anemia (EPO)

• strokes (EPO)

• heart attacks

• Pulmonary embolism (EPO)

• feminization (HCG)

• thyroid problems (hGH)

So now choosing these drugs depends upon you whether to win competition with your hardwork of taking some random stufff into your body