Performance-Enhancing Drugs (Issues That Concern You)

 
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Synopsis

Essayist Jesse Haggard tells readers that performance-enhancing drugs should be allowed in sports, while Sal Marinello provides a compelling essay on quiet the opposite view. The series of essays in this book debate the hot-topics relating to performance-enhancing drugs. By providing multiple perspectives, readers will engage critical thinking skills in order to form their own intelligent opinions. Should sports management and governments become more involved in fighting this drug use? Is there a double standard to performance enhancements in sports? Readers will evaluate questions such as these through this book.

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Examines issues surrounding the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports from different perspectives. Discusses the dangers of steroid use, and its place, if any, in competitive sports. Do performance-enhancing drugs constitute cheating — or can they be beneficial for certain types of sports? Also looks at the role of management and peer pressure in performance-enhancing drug use, as well as programs designed to prevent it.

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