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An issue in sports is performance-enhancing drugs, related to medicine and sports. These drugs may be in many forms such as anabolic drugs or steroids, analgesics, diuretics, peptides, glycoprotein hormones, and analogs, as well as stimulants. The most commonly used performance-enhancing drugs are steroids which decrease the recovery time so that the athlete can train harder and for a longer duration. Steroids together with exercise, also “increase muscle bulk, strength and endurance” to optimize the athlete’s performance during training as well as competition (Beashel et al 141).
Further, the war against the use of performance-enhancing drugs, based on the ethical foundations of sports, is expensive. Thus, it is an issue of public debate. Similar to other ethical policies in society, there is a requirement for mechanisms ensuring accountability of policy to the broader public. Therefore, the initiatives taken against the use of performance-enhancing drugs are beneficial to society at large (Kayser et al 9).