13.5 drugs in sport

Question 1

What are the different types of drugs in sports

Answer 1

• Stimulants
• anabolic agents
• diuretics
• narcotic analgesics
• peptides and hormones
• Beta blockers
• blood doping

Question 2

What effect do stimulants have on performance

Answer 2

Makes athletes more alert and mask fatigue

Question 3

What are the dangerous effects of stimulants

Answer 3

Cause heart failure

addictive

Question 4

What effect do steroids have on performance

Answer 4

Helps athlete train harder and build muscle

Question 5

What are the dangerous effects of steroids

Answer 5

increased aggression and kidney damage

Question 6

What effect do diuretics have on performance

Answer 6

remove body fluid

hide other drug use

Question 7

What are the dangerous effects of diuretics

Answer 7

severe dehydration

Question 8

What effects do narcotic analgesics have on performance

Answer 8

mask pain from injury and fatigue which makes injury worse

Question 9

What are the dangerous side effects of narcotic analgesics

Answer 9

Addictive

Question 10

What effects do peptides and hormones have on performance

Answer 10

EPO RBC’s gives more energy and HGH which builds muscle

Question 11

What effects do beta blockers have on performance

Answer 11

Reduce heart rate and hand trembles

Question 12

What is blood doping

Answer 12

injecting blood that’s been removed from the body a few days earlier

Question 13

What are the benefits of blood doping

Answer 13

enables the blood to carry more O2

Question 14

What are the negatives of blood doping

Answer 14

Cause kidney and heart failure

Question 15

What organisation is responsible for preventing Doping

Answer 15

UKAD

Question 16

What do UKAD do educationally for performers

Answer 16

works with athletes and coaches to increase their knowledge of the dangers of drugs

Question 17

What programme do UKAD promote

Answer 17

‘100% Me’ programme

Question 18

What level athletes use the 100% me programme

Answer 18

Rising stars at the school games as well as elite athletes

Question 19

What drug organisation does UKAD work with

Answer 19

WADA (world antidoping agency)

national governing bodies

Question 20

When was WADA founded

Answer 20

1999

Question 21

What are some of the problems of trying to remove drugs from sport

Answer 21

• hard to get access to athletes abroad
• Development of new masking agents
• claim drugs were taken accidentally
• countries have different testing regulations and procedures

Question 22

Arguments for using drugs in sport

Answer 22

• 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

Question 23

Arguments against using drugs in sport

Answer 23

• 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