Drugs

Question 1

What do drugs change

Answer 1

Your body chemistry

Some of the chemical changes in your body caused by drugs can lead to the body becoming addicted

Question 2

What are the three types of drugs

Answer 2

Medicinal - medically useful e.g antibiotics

Recreational - drugs used for fun, legal or illegal

Performance enhancing - boost a performance in sport

Question 3

What to impacts do performance enhancing drugs have?

Answer 3

Health-wise and ethical

Question 4

Give two examples of performance enhancing drugs

Answer 4

Anabolic steroids - increases muscle size

Stimulants - increase heart rate

Question 5

What is a negative health effect of anabolic steroids

Answer 5

Can cause high blood pressure

Question 6

What are ethical problems against performance enhancing drugs?(2)

Answer 6

Unfair for people to gain an unfair advantage by drugs

Athletes may not be informed of the serious health issues of the drugs they take

Question 7

Give two ethical reasons for performance enhancing drugs?

Answer 7

Athletes have the right to make their own decisions for taking drugs, it’s their own risk

Drug-free sport is unfair as sportsmen have access to different training and facilities and coaches

Question 8

What are the name of prescribed drugs used to lower the risk of heart and circulatory diseases?

Answer 8

Statins - there is evidence that statins lower the blood cholesterol and lower the risk of heart disease in diabetic patients

The original research done by the govt form of 6000 patients . It compared people who have and haven’t taken the statins and since other studies have back up this