News Flash: Performance Enhancing Drugs could be bad for you
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:44 pm
Interesting article in the Atlantic Monthly on performance enhancing drugs...
Tripleshotters will find it amusing that caffeine was once classed as a performance enhancer.
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The need to protect elite athletes from themselves is real. In surveys administered between 1982 and 1995, half of elite athletes said they would take an undetectable PED if doing so meant they would win an Olympic gold medal, even if the drug were guaranteed to kill them within five years. When that hypothetical was posed to 250 normal Australians, less than one percent said they would take the gold-then-death drug....
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi ... ng/267388/
Tripleshotters will find it amusing that caffeine was once classed as a performance enhancer.
(excerpt)
The need to protect elite athletes from themselves is real. In surveys administered between 1982 and 1995, half of elite athletes said they would take an undetectable PED if doing so meant they would win an Olympic gold medal, even if the drug were guaranteed to kill them within five years. When that hypothetical was posed to 250 normal Australians, less than one percent said they would take the gold-then-death drug....
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi ... ng/267388/