13.5 drugs in sport Flashcards
What are the different types of drugs in sports
- Stimulants
- anabolic agents
- diuretics
- narcotic analgesics
- peptides and hormones
- Beta blockers
- blood doping
What effect do stimulants have on performance
Makes athletes more alert and mask fatigue
What are the dangerous effects of stimulants
Cause heart failure
addictive
What effect do steroids have on performance
Helps athlete train harder and build muscle
What are the dangerous effects of steroids
increased aggression and kidney damage
What effect do diuretics have on performance
remove body fluid
hide other drug use
What are the dangerous effects of diuretics
severe dehydration
What effects do narcotic analgesics have on performance
mask pain from injury and fatigue which makes injury worse
What are the dangerous side effects of narcotic analgesics
Addictive
What effects do peptides and hormones have on performance
EPO RBC’s gives more energy and HGH which builds muscle
What effects do beta blockers have on performance
Reduce heart rate and hand trembles
What is blood doping
injecting blood that’s been removed from the body a few days earlier
What are the benefits of blood doping
enables the blood to carry more O2
What are the negatives of blood doping
Cause kidney and heart failure
What organisation is responsible for preventing Doping
UKAD
What do UKAD do educationally for performers
works with athletes and coaches to increase their knowledge of the dangers of drugs
What programme do UKAD promote
‘100% Me’ programme
What level athletes use the 100% me programme
Rising stars at the school games as well as elite athletes
What drug organisation does UKAD work with
WADA (world antidoping agency)
national governing bodies
When was WADA founded
1999
What are some of the problems of trying to remove drugs from sport
- hard to get access to athletes abroad
- Development of new masking agents
- claim drugs were taken accidentally
- countries have different testing regulations and procedures
Arguments for using drugs in sport
- expensive and time consuming
- easy access, hard to eliminate
- detection ins’t effective
- grey lines between legal and illegal drugs
- drugs taken accidentally
- performers choice/ sacrifice
- drugs properly monitored reduces health risk
- their right as it’s their body
Arguments against using drugs in sport
- health risks
- creates negative role models
- negative image on certain sports
- pressure to use increases from coaches and peers
- success should be about hard work and talent
- drugs give an unfair advantage
- it’s cheating
- only richer countries can afford them
- loss of medals, sponsorship’s loss of lottery funding
- it’s illegal
