... few in the athletic community, where it was widely believed that the vast majority of Olympic athletes had been using banned substances for years. "I hear all the time from athletes that you can't compete internationally unless you use performance-enhancing drugs,"" says Dr. Robert Voy former chief medical officer of the United States Olympic Committee. 1989 became the year of ... . Because of the rules, many athletes are denied optimal treatment for disease and injury. For a large majority of the drugs on the list of banned substances, documentation that they enhanced performance is ins...

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... to the newest products have the advantage of using drugs not yet on the banned list. In addition, most of these drugs leave certain traces in urine samples, and it is often these traces and not the actual drugs that show up in positive tests. As each drug ... is chemically unique, each signature left behind is also unique, and therefore a common practice is the creation of "designer drugs", or chemically altered drugs ... . By slightly altering the chemical composition of a drug it can be tailored to an athlete's specific needs, and the new drug will have the added bonus of an unknown s...

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... world, in conjunction with society's demand for excellence, has caused athletes to seek quicker alternative solutions, which results in the consumption of the drug steroids. Steroids should be banned from sports because of the negative history in competitions, the health risks involved, and the disgrace it brings to many sports. Before trying to prove that steroids serve no positive ... enlarged prostate, insomnia, sterility, testicular atrophy, premature hair loss, voice changes and osteoporosis (Leshner 2002). Although these risks are very real, many individuals continue to choose the ...

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