Drugs Mr Cumber Flashcards
(19 cards)
What are the social reasons for taking drugs
-win at all costs attitude
- fame and fortune attached
- ignore evens of pressure to win
-financial benefit
- lack of effective deterrent
Physchological reasons for taking drugs
-beta blocker to steady nerves when fine motor control is needed
- anabolic steroids to increase their agression in high contact sports
- faster recovery
- cope with pressure
- stimulants for lack of confidence
What are the positives for taking anabolic steroids
- good for explosive and power sports (sprinters like Dwayne chambers)
- ability to train for longer so it decreases fatigue
- aid in storage of protein and promotes muscle growth
-adds lean body weight
What are anabolic steroids
Artificially produced hormones
What are the negatives of taking anabolic steroids
- liver damage
- heart and immune problems
-acne - behaviour change like mood swings
What are beta blockers
They counteract adrenaline that interferes with performance, prevents t from binding to nerve receptors
What are the positives of beta blockers
- improve accuracy
- calms performance anxiety
- keep HR low and decrease tremble in hands
- reduces involuntary spazzms
Used in high prescision sports
What are the negatives of beta blockers
-affec aerobic copacity
- tiredness due to low BP
What are the positives of EPO
- increase amount of work performed
- increase endurance and delays of onset of fatigue
- recover quicker from training
- stimulates RBC production results in increase oxygen carying capacity
Endurance athletes use this
What is EPO (erythroprotein)
Natural hormone produced by kidneys to increase RBC, can be made artificlly manufactured to increase haemoglobin levels
What are the negatives of EPO
- Blood clotting
- stroke
- ## death
What are the implications to the sort ad performer of drug taking
- threatens spirit and integrity of sport
- cycling and athletes have strong association
- negative role models, young athletes think they have to take drugs
- damage performers health
- loose their reputation
- future careers negatively impacted
-stripped of medal
What is UKAD
-responsible for protecting UK sport from threat of drug taking
-tests over 40 sports
- 100% me programme
- works with WADA
What are some problems that still exist for drug taking in sport
- difficult to gain immediate access to athletes abroad (where abouts system
- different countries and sports have different testing procedures
- drugs taken accidentally
- ongoing development of new drugs/ masking agents
Strategies for elimination of PEDs in sport
-organisations that drug tests should work together
- punishments should be harsher
-investment is required into new programme testings
- the guilty loose their funding, sponsorship deals
- name and shame negative role models
-drug free culture via education programmes
What’s the were abouts system
Always knowing where an athlete is so that if they need to do a drug test, they have to come back home to be able to do one so they don’t get banned from the sport. If they don’t turn up for 3 drug tests in a row, they are banned
Why should drugs be legalised
- detection not always effective
- battle against it is expensive and time consuming
- drugs are easy to assess and hard to eliminate
-athletes don’t ask to be a role model - our personal choice
- level playing feels if everyone takes it
Why should drugs be banned
-health risks
- illegal
- negative role models
- pressure to take if peers and coaches also take them
- negative consequences
- sucsess should be about hard work, talent
- cheating
- only th richer can afford drugs
