To fully understand the topic of sports drug testing you must first look at the overall picture of just drug testing and how the United States and its laws view it. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that drug testing programs are constitutionally permissible within both the public and the private areas. It appears mandatory drug testing has become a permanent fixture of American life. Some of the most notable issues against drug testing are in the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment reads, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, a

As I stated earlier baseball has been in the spotlight lately as far as drug testing goes. In the last decade multiple hitting records have been broken by players who have been under suspicion of using steroids. Baseball great Cal Ripken Jr. said “Someone has to be using steroids because no body has ever done anything like this before and with all the great names before us those records just don’t get broken.” Of course almost every single one baseball players accused of taking steroids denies it. A San Francisco Chronicle report in February claimed that Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and other professional athletes received steroids from BALCO, a San Francisco-area nutritional supplements lab that is under federal investigation. The report helped spark a controversy as spring training opened, that has yet to die down. Bonds, Giambi and Sheffield repeatedly have denied using steroids. No athletes have been charged in the case, nor have any been identified in documents released by prosecutors. Baseball players want an independent third party to test them as they have found ownership and Major League Baseball to be untrustworthy. Boston Red Sox Pitcher Curt Schilling stated that, “We had a drug test last year that we were told was absolutely confidential and a year later came to find out it wasn’t. That's the ownership in a nutshell. I don't trust them to do any of that stuff.”

The biggest thing against drug testing right now is its cost. To test for only one drug costs two dollars. To test for six drugs costs seven dollars. These tests are

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