Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Performance Enhancing Drugs
- Anabolic Steroids
- Enables the performer to train harder for longer which will enhance strength and power
- Speeds up recovery time
- Pressure from coaches, teammates or competitors
- Increases the chances of winning
- Increases protein synthesis which helps to develop muscle mass.
- Used by performers requiring power such as sprinters and weightlifters
- Increased aggression & mood swings
- Liver damage
- Testicular atrophy in men, leading to infertility
- Premature baldness
- Beta Blockers
- Reduce anxiety
- Calming
- Allow the performer to have control
- Steady muscles when shaking
- Increase the chances of winning
- Used by divers, archers and gymnasts
- Slow in heart rate, poor performance in endurance events
- Sleep disturbance/insomnia
- Diuretics
- Enables weight to be lost quickly from the loss of fluid
- Masks other performance enhancing drugs.
- Can be used by any performer to mask other drugs but used by jockeys and boxers for their weight losing purposes
- Dehydration
- Nausea
- Headaches
- Heart/kidney failure
- Narcotic Analgesics
- Sense of euphoria (intense excitement)
- Sense of invincibility
- Mask injuries, enabling further participation
- Increase pain threshold
- Used by any injured sportsperson wanting to continue training or competing.
- Nausea
- Anxiety/depression
- Kidney/liver damage
- Addiction
- Development of injury
- Loss in concentration
- Stimulants
- Increase aggression levels
- Increases alertness
- Reduces tiredness
- Increases heart rate and oxygen delivery as a result
- Increases competitiveness.
- Different performers will take stimulants for their different effects
- Baseball players and long distance cyclists may need the long-lasting alertness
- Rugby players or boxers may need the increase in aggression
- Insomnia
- Aggression
- Anxiety
- Heart rate irregularities
- Peptide Hormones
- Erythropoietin (EPO)
- Increases red blood cell production, improving oxygen delivery to the working muscles
- Used by distance runners and cyclists
- Blood clots from increased blood thickness which increases the risk of a heart attack
- Human growth hormone (HGH)
- Helps increase muscle mass and strength
- Used by sprinters and weightlifters to increase power
- Arthritis
- Diabetes
- Abnormal foot and hand growth
- Heart failure