Why stop athletes from using performance enhancing drugs?

Post by **_Polygamy Porter** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:41 am

Yet allow the over prescription of performance enhancing drugs to children and adult who have so called A.D.D., ADHC, learning disabilities, etc?

Each athlete has a different performance peak. The same can be said of each different persons intellectual level. Some folks are smarter than others.

Why allow the less intellectual to use drugs to move past their natural cognitive peak but punish athletes who desire to do the same in sports?

_Ray A · Post by **_Ray A** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:53 am

My brother wrote an article for The Sydney Morning Herald on this topic on August 5th last year. It was titled "Drugs in Sport - Just Get Over It":

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/drugs- ... 30907.html

Post by **_Mephitus** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:55 am

i guess the idea is to judge purely off of effort of the person. but what do i care, i hate sports. I would rather see someone that has been modified to the max that current technology and medical science can do.

Post by **_gramps** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:05 pm

Ray A wrote:My brother wrote an article for The Sydney Morning Herald on this topic on August 5th last year. It was titled "Drugs in Sport - Just Get Over It":

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/drugs- ... 30907.html

Thanks for the link, Ray. Sports, the "opiate of the masses." So true. LOL

Post by **_ajax18** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:20 am

If it's safe I don't see where it's much different than having the money to buy a better weight room, better food, better coach etc. Yet if every kid is taking steroids and getting huge health problems in their 30s and only a few make big money, the country would be left with quite a social problem in providing healthcare for these people, not to mention they might not be able to work.

Yet how is banning performance enhancing drugs different than baseball no longer allowing metal bats?

I think most athletes do use drugs because it's pretty difficult to test for every possible type of drug with the necessary degree of certainty.

Post by **_Mephitus** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:50 am

not all performance enhancing drugs cause the extensive problems as they have been accredited with. (at least when you use them under carefull doctor observation and in carefull dosing) There are even newer ones that have come out over the last decade or so that have nearly no side effects with proper use. Its all about a balance. If you look at the UK where such drugs are legal, when administered by doctors and under their care, problems are much lower. Im not saying they don't happen, but with anything like that, you have to be carefull.