Drug And Alcohol Use By Student Athletes.
The topic that I have chosen is student athletes' use of drugs and alcohol. I'm interested to see if the old theory that student athletes tend to stay away from these things still holds true today. From my own personal experience as a former high school and college football player, I doubt that this is true. I'd also like to find some studies that may compare student athletes to the general student body to see if there is a correlation of usage between these two groups. With the many stories of athletes being arrested for alcohol and drug abuse, I feel this information may be helpful in setting up a drug prevention program at the high school or middle school level. Carr et al. (1990) looked at the frequency of alcohol use, intoxication, and attitudes concerning adolescent alcohol abuse. They found that male high school athletes both use and abuse alcohol more frequently than do non-athletes. Also male non-athletes tend to abstain from alcohol use more than the athletes do. They found no difference in the frequency of use or abuse of alcohol by female athletes and non-athletes. There was also no difference in the frequency of alcohol consumption between male and female athletes. But three fourths of the male athletes reported getting intoxicated when consuming alcohol compared to half of the female athletes. The study by Tricker and Connolly (1997) examined the attitudes of athletes who were at risk for using steroids, amphetamines, cocaine, and marijuana. They found that seventeen percent of the athletes surveyed felt that marijuana use was an acceptable way to cope with the pressures of sport. Also the main reason for athletes abstaining from drug use was their fear of getting caught, rather than personal health risks. Another big influence of athletes using or not using drugs was peer pressure from teammates. Shields' (1998) study looked at the in-season and off-season use of alcohol by high school athletes and also compared it to a similar study done w/ the same population in 1988.
Drug Abuse There are serious drug problems in the world today. The main substances being abused are marijuana, alcohol, and hard drugs. Drug abuse is real and is a growing concern in schools today. ... Another problem in the substance abuse spectrum is the consumption of perscription drugs. ... These medications are obtained through sports injuries or through theft from an adult or person prescribed to these drugs. ...
In an effort to lower drug abuse among teens, many schools across the country have chosen to start testing their students for drugs. ... But testing students who don't participate in sports is not, however, because of unfair games. ... But apparently some schools think their right to stop drug abuse is greater than the student's right to privacy. ... Students should not have to give up their privacy to schools for something that will only affect the very few who abuse drugs. ... While drug abuse is a problem that needs to be solved, mandatory drug testing in schools isn't the ...
Grades and Sports Grades and Sports are important to teens because the will not be able to play sports in high school or college with bad grades. If you are really talented and you like to play sports than you better keep your grades up. On television they always have athletes with drug abuse and not being able to play in there first year because did bad in high school and didn't pass a test in high school. Some concerns teens have about my topic is that they will not be able to play sports because of bad grades. ... This effects more than just teens it is effecting kids in coll...
Should we allow performance-enhancing drugs in sports? "Only the most nave sports fan can be shocked-shocked!... Do we really think performance-enhancing drugs belong to sports? ... "One of the main reasons people give for abusing steroids is to improve their performance in sports. ... In these special cases it is much harder for the drug abusers to stop. ...
Testing can help restore an athlete's faith in the fairness of sports competition and put athletes on notice, if you cheat to win you might get caught and then you will lose it all. ... Many feel drug abuse is a disease and that athletes should be screened for drug abuse just as they are checked for other medical conditions. ... Then when an athlete test come back positive it sometimes makes the sport a long with the team seem like drug abusers. Lawrence Taylor, a football player for the New York Giants was suspended for drug abuse. Interviews showed that his current and former friends ...
DRUG TESTING IN SPORTS There has been a dramatic reduction in drug use among college athletes who are subject to mandatory drug testing. ... The issue of drugs in sports began with Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter, stripped of his gold medal in 1988 after testing positive for anabolic steroids. ... While much attention was being focused on drug abuse by Olympic athletes, in recent years drug abuse among college athletes has received a greater share of attention. In colleges many sports medicine physicians become increasingly involved in the drug abuse issue. ... Today there exists ...
Drugs in sports have been around for centuries, and just recently it has grown out of control. ... What are some of the drugs that are found in today's sports and why do athletes use them? ... Abuse to these drugs have ruined careers and damaged the reputations of sports. The placebo effect comes into play when drugs are abused. ... Abusing drugs for gains in sports performance poses a very real threat to the individual's mental and physical health, particularly in young people. ...
"The psychological and physical aspects of drug abuse in today's adolescence" Unfortunately the abuse of illegal drugs is not uncommon in today's adolescent communities. Many teenagers today use illicit drugs as a way to deal with everyday pressures such as school, after school jobs, sports activities, domestic violence and peer pressure. ... While marijuana users do not move on to harder drugs, smoking weed does increase a teen's chances of being exposed, according to the National Institute of Drug abuse in Washington, D.C (Sora, 1997, page 71). ... In conclusion I have demo...
Drug Abuse in Competitive Sports In the ideal picture of the athletic field, athletes are portrayed as individuals who train intensely to push themselves to success. ... Surveys show that athletes themselves believe that drug usage exists in up to 90 percent of sports (CASA commission). ... The development of these new drugs is one of the many effective ways for which scientists help athletes to cheat in sports. ... The three major suppliers of prohibited substances are medical professionals, sports underground networks, and the illegal drug trade. ... The government's failure to...