Recently, professional athletes have more tendency toward utilizing forbidden energizing drugs to improve their efficiency. Since there are various outcomes as the result of this phenomenon, there are a number of actions that should be taken by governments and other related organizations to address this issue.
Making use of illegal drugs to improve efficiency by sportsmen can cause several issues. Firstly, although such drugs can boost our body’s performance during the competition, they can cause serious problems for our health, such as heart attack, cancer and even worse death. For instance, Beito Abbaspour, one of the greatest Iranian body builders, passed away because of consuming prohibited energizing medicines. Secondly, there are strict punishments when it is revealed that someone has used illegal drugs. The strictest one is to be banned from participating in any official competitions for a long while or maybe life-long, which can destroy an athlete’s professional future. Finally, being convicted due to using such drugs can question all previous honors that an athlete achieved before. Moreover, I believe a championship is worth when you compete with your rivals in an equal situation without cheating. Otherwise, you will always have a fight and struggle inside yourself in your loneliness.
There are numerous actions that can either reduce or prevent usage of unauthorized drugs. Firstly, governments and international organizations must impose rigid laws to control the process of producing and supplying such medicines to make accessibility to these kinds of medicines harder. Secondly, world anti-doping agencies should take medical tests from athletes periodically instead of doing such measures only during the competitions to engender a feeling of fear inside athletes that they are always under control. Finally, I believe the most effective approach is promoting the culture of not using such drugs instead of always controlling and this can be achieved by holding educational workshops for the sports community.
In conclusion, there are several negative impacts on athletes who use unauthorized drugs, especially on their health. To prevent usage increasement of such drugs, both governments and other international organizations can introduce stricter controlling rules and inform athletes of the consequences of using such drugs.