Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

Recent Congressional hearings and testimony from major league baseball players revealed that a number of professional baseball athletes are guilty of using performance enhancing drugs like steroids and amphetamines. In his book, Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball, Howard Bryant estimates the number of players who have experimented with performance enhancing drugs as between 25 and 40 percent, (Juicing, 2005, p. 46). These revelations demand a strong and swift response from lawmakers and major league baseball (MLB) officials to ban the use of performance enhancing drugs, implement routine testing practices, and to impose stiff penalties on MLB players who violate the ban. Performance enhancing drugs must be banned for three reasons: 1) Their use undermines the integrity of AmericaÆs favorite pastime; 2) Their use sets a poor and dangerous model for children; and 3) Their use demonstrates a lack of accountability for professional athletes.

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