Should athletes be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs?

Savulescu, Julian; Creaney, Leon; Vondy, Anna

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“…Doping is viewed as a moral issue by both athletes (e.g., Erickson, McKenna, & Backhouse, 2015) and academics (e.g., Atry, Hansson, & Kihlbom, 2013;Corlett, 2013;Corlett, Brown, & Kirkland, 2013). However, some academics have argued that doping does not violate the spirit of sport (e.g., Savulescu, Creaney, & Vondy, 2013), and reported that sportspersonship does not predict doping (e.g., Barkoukis, Lazuras, Tsorbatzoudis, & Rodafinos, 2011; cf.…”

Section: The Effects Of Moral Disengagement Mechanisms On Doping Likementioning

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The effects of moral disengagement mechanisms on doping likelihood are mediated by guilt and moderated by moral traits

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Hurst

2019

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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Section: The Effects Of Moral Disengagement Mechanisms On Doping Likementioning

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The effects of moral disengagement mechanisms on doping likelihood are mediated by guilt and moderated by moral traits

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2019

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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“…Therefore, experts point out quite reasonably that the distinction between prohibited and permitted substances is determined exclusively by the administrative decision of WADA, relying on the non-scientific definition of doping, subjective criteria and vague ideas about the "spirit of sports" rather than on scientific and medical foundations [13,49]. Even greater confusion is caused by WADA's constant manipulations with the content of the Prohibited List, allowing the use of certain substances and prohibiting the use of others, transferring permitted substances to the Prohibited List and vice versa transferring prohibited substances to the Permitted List [40], as well as introducing absolutely unreasonable norms of banned substances in samples of athletes.…”

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“…Actual crisis that may not only to discredit the Olympics, but also may lead to the collapse of the Olympic movement, began with the establishment of WADA and isolation from the anti-doping fight of authorities in the field of sports and health science and assigning responsibilities to deal with the problem on "effective managers" [47]. The inadmissibility of this situation finds a convincing confirmation in the writings of many authoritative experts seriously concerned about the critical situation in Olympic sports with regard to the WADA's methodology and practice in the anti-doping fight [4,27,28,31,40,49].…”

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Doping in olympic sport: signs of the crisis and ways to overcome it

Платонов

2016

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Abstract. The paper contains analysis of modern history of the spread of doping in Olympic sport, the IOC's fight against this negative phenomenon and activities of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) established in 1999 and designed to eradicate doping. It is shown that, despite ever-increasing financial and human resources along with expanded legal capabilities, intensive propaganda efforts, increased volume of testing, severe sanctions, support from reputable international organizations (UN, UNESCO, Council of Europe), the Agency's multi-year activities is not only brought the Olympic sport closer to solving the problem, but also dramatically aggravated and made it dangerous for the credibility and the well-being of the Olympic movement. It is not only and not so much about the competition in elite sport, which has dramatically increased recent years, and socio-political and commercial attractiveness of success at the Olympics, but about fundamentally misguided methodology underlying WADA's activities, based on neglect of biological, medical and sports sciences' achievements, and realities of modern elite sports, and drawn up on the ideas of lawyers, economists and "universal managers". The paper outlines in detail outcomes of WADA activities and anti-doping laboratories accredited by the Agency, which manifested themselves in many crisis phenomena moved far beyond the limits of the Olympic sport. Furthermore, the prospects of coming out of the grave crisis developed in this area are delineated.

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“…Only two of them are still doping unspotted." (Savulescu et al, 2013). The above necessitates application of allowed pharmacological preparations of ergogenic character, however, in many cases the process of elite athletes' preparation is not without the use of WADA banned anabolic means.…”

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Anabolic agents in elite sport: accent on side effects (review)

Gunina

Malinsky

Boyko

2018

Sporto Mokslas / Sport Science

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Under current conditions with noticeably increased competition between the leading sports countries on the global stage, the greatest success is achieved, as a rule, by representatives of the country, in which the latest achievements of science and technology are best used. The level of modern sport development, those overloads that the athletes experience are so high that any attempts to stop using medicinal preparations reflect the views of not even yesterday, but the day before yesterday. Over the past 15-20 years, the volume and intensity of training and competitive loads have increased by 2-3 times, and representatives of many sports events have almost reached the limit of the human body physiological capacities. That having been said, the nutritional inadequacy of athletes' diets, the need for recovery and preventive measures, body adaptation to intensive physical and psychoemotional loads as well as frequent climate and time zone changes necessitate the usage of pharmacological preparations contributing to work capacity increase and accelerating the recovery processes after significant loads. Unfortunately, this has led to widespread usage of doping in general and anabolic steroids, in particular.Anabolic means are the substances the action of which is aimed at intensification of anabolic (synthetic) processes in the body, i.e. substances accelerating formation and regeneration of structural parts of cells, tissues and muscular structures. Non-Olympic sports events representatives and the youth not engaged in professional sport tend to use steroid doping as well. The prevalence of usage of banned substances and methods remains high, reliable highprecision methods for the detection of many of them are absent, and athletes, not knowing the pitfalls of taking anabolic agents, continue to use them on a mass scale, which can cause both immediate and remote negative effects on health and quality of life. Therefore, every new attempt to explain potential health and life quality hazards is a step forward in the fight against doping.This review presents modern classification of anabolic agents, headlines their action mechanism and details side effects of using representatives of all three groups of banned drugs including those recently synthesized. It is emphasized that the use of anabolics may not only lead to deprivation of medals won illegally, but cause immediate and delayed negative influences on the athlete's body further resulting in deterioration of social adaptation, loss of health and, possibly, life itself.

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Should athletes be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs?

Abstract: Stories about illegal doping in sport are a regular occurrence. Julian Savulescu argues that rather than banning performance enhancing drugs we should regulate their use, but Leon Creaney and Anna Vondy say this would lead to escalating use and call for tougher enforcement

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

The effects of moral disengagement mechanisms on doping likelihood are mediated by guilt and moderated by moral traits

The effects of moral disengagement mechanisms on doping likelihood are mediated by guilt and moderated by moral traits

Doping in olympic sport: signs of the crisis and ways to overcome it

Anabolic agents in elite sport: accent on side effects (review)

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