Xabrina Ovalle (FGCU) - Drugs in Sports

Drugs are defined as a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being. Usage of drugs is common in a variety of athletic fields such as football, baseball, track and field, swimming, etc. There are key drugs in sports that enhance physical well-being, some including EPO which is an artificial hormone that boosts endurance; anabolic steroids to build or maintain muscle mass; human growth hormones, and others. Why do athletes feel the need to take these drugs? They want to increase their performance, and unfortunately, sometimes cheaters get the bigger rewards. Athletes seek out to be better than their peers.   In Major League Baseball, there is good amount of steroids being taken by the professional players in order to make them more enhanced and better to play the game they love so much. This is not a recent thing; since the sport of baseball, there has been a history. In the National Football League, it seems to be more about enhancing mental well-being. Throughout the years, while I am not going to list the names, there are a lot of football players who have tested positive for marijuana. Why do so many athletes risk their livelihood to smoke drugs? My question is, what do you think the proper punishment should be, if any, for those players, in any sport, to test positive with any drug?

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