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It is wrong, wrong, wrong, for athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs in competition.(The Week)(Brief Article)
* It is wrong, wrong, wrong, for athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs in competition. Everyone agrees on that, don't they? Well ... sort of. The International Olympic Committee has now ruled that transsexuals may compete in Olympic events as persons of their artificially acquired sex, so long as the necessary surgery has been followed by at least two years of hormone therapy. Which is to say, two years of injecting yourself with body-changing drugs. As Dr. Renee Richards pointed out following the IOC decision: "Sex-reassignment surgery is based on putting materials into your body." Just so; and Dr. Richards should ...
- Data needed on cognitive-enhancing drugs.(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News Rosenthal, Richard N. June 1, 2009 700+ words
...prescription. Cognitive-enhancing drugs give a competitive edge...obligated to give cognition-enhancing drugs to their children if the...use of such performance-enhancing drugs in "normal" people is wrong. Others see the practice...
- Data needed on cognition-enhancing drugs.(EDITORIAL)
- Magazine article from: Pediatric News Rosenthal, Richard N. August 1, 2009 700+ words
...prescription. Cognition-enhancing drugs give a competitive edge...obligated to give cognition-enhancing drugs to their children if the...use of such performance-enhancing drugs in "normal" people is wrong. Others see the practice...
- Let them eat 'roids; Allowing performance-enhancing drugs in sports would be...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 21, 2004 700+ words
...Rafael Palmeiro hitting for a pitcher and performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Nor does it hint at a pending Viagra joke...Let me say this. Any way you look at it, it's wrong." Maybe so. But open your eyes: The pla
- 'I yam what I yam ...' (... except for those performance-enhancing...
- Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine Collum, Danny Duncan March 1, 2005 700+ words
...him on and off the field. When Aaron hit number 715, in Atlanta, of all places, many of America's pre-Jackie Robinson wrongs were symbolically righted. Now we have Barry Bonds, the son of another major leaguer, who clawed his way from the top to...
- Most Think Many MLB Players Use Performance-Enhancing Drugs and They Favor...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 12, 2004 700+ words
...use steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs. There is also overwhelming support...professional ball players for performance-enhancing drugs and for punishing all who use them...players take steroids or performance- enhancing drugs. -- When people who believe this...
- Medical Newsletter Reviews Performance-Enhancing Drugs; World-class Athletes...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 10, 2004 700+ words
...investigation for taking performance-enhancing drugs. To better understand the recent...2004 edition on "Performance-Enhancing Drugs." The Medical Letter reviewed many...concluded that use of performance-enhancing drugs, especially anabolic steroids, central...
- Physicians Concerned about Effects of Performance Enhancing Drugs; One-Third...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 22, 2006 700+ words
...school student athletes for performance enhancing drugs. The national survey was conducted...have tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Among the findings: --A strong...they are worried about performance enhancing drugs effect on the athletic community...
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Launches Campaign To Eliminate...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 15, 1999 700+ words
...campaign to stop the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports. The "Healthy Competition...health dangers of taking performance-enhancing drugs and encouraging all athletes to resist...aware of athletes using performance-enhancing drugs, but only 29 percent say their parents...
Source: HighBeam Research, It is wrong, wrong, wrong, for athletes to use performance-enhancing...