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Drug consequence in sports, and its control in sport An Ethical view.
Drug consequence in sports, and its control in sport: An Ethical view.
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Introduction
Sports at the local, national and international level have adopted technological advancement as a means of enhancing performance. Participants from all spheres of sporting sector are taking advantage from the flourishing and performance enriching technologies. These may range from muscle fiber typing, biomechanical computer modeling, psychological tests, surgical, coaching, as well as equipments technologically advanced and training facilities. Today sports have shifted from a playful activity to a professional enterprise (Hemphill, 2009). Sporting champions nowadays is no longer wins as a matter of chance, personal determination, careful planning, and corporate planning, but surrounded by large economic and political interest, and, therefore, is becoming a competition between corporations (Hanstad et al, 2008). The use of drugs such as erythropoietin, human hormone, and anabolic steroids as a means of winning and becoming a champion has increased. These have posed a threat to sports which hold a significant place in the public imagination and as a result, reducing its integrity of sports. According to Miah’s discussion, Philosophers has a tremendous pedagogic role to play and enumerate range of moral concerns on a given issue. Credit must be given to WADA for the efforts they have put in since their inceptions till now (Park, 2005).
The decorum: Respect for the Individual, Health and Safety.
Drugs introduce foreign and artificial substances to further developing performance of enhancements not realizable under normal circumstances. These drugs temper with the body and interfere with nature and causes short or long term health hazards. Sports are a measure of natural abilities not aided by any substances. Sport is a game that requires fair practice. As a normal human being, one is to respect himself and others (Houlihan, 2004).
Equality: Fair dealing; fair contest.
Sport is a corporate social activity that promotes the pursuit and achievement of goods into the internal activity. These are the purpose of the activity and the shared standards of technical, ethical or aesthetic achievements that guide excellence. According to Stout, the internal goods specified by the activity itself and acknowledged by people experienced in the activity. Unlike external goods, fortune and fame benefits the entire practice community. Based on this, winning by any means including the use of drugs is not acceptable. Winning has value and not only from the external rewards. Hence, the participants must be fair to themselves and their competitors so that there is a level play field for all (Hanstad et al, 2008).
Responsiveness: Addressing concerns.
Doping is an extremely critical issue that warrants collective efforts. The only road that shed light to this menace is sport ethics. Furthermore, zero tolerance models apply to the campaign against drugs. These incorporate stringent penalties coupled with frequent testing and education awareness programs. Education programs assume that the athletes will take heed to health, fairness and safety in the use of these substances. WADA has pronounced war on those found cheating. This is to protect sport for athletes who are honest and clean. The fight against this menace in sports calls for collective responsibility since it touches all aspects of life (Hemphill, 2009).
Conclusion
In fighting against doping in sports, we should all pull together and join hands with WADA to stump this menace out of sporting activities. Athletes must recognize their health as a vital gift that cannot be bought. Creating fairness is paramount so that none disadvantaged. Government bodies also must join and at national level and stand against doping.
Drug and Teenagers
Drug and Teenagers
Introduction
Drug abuse is refers to the pattern of harmful consumption of any substance with an aim of mood-altering. It can also refer to the consumption of illegal substance or over-the-counter or prescription drugs in a wrong way or purposes. This habit is a severe public health issue that affects virtually every family and community in some way. Statistics indicate that drug abuse causes almost 40 million severe diseases or injuries, in the United States alone, every year. Out of this, teenagers are the most affected group, a fact that has raised concerns over how to avert it, among all the stakeholders, including parents, schools, the community and the government. Teenage drug use is a widespread problem in the society today, majorly caused by easy accessibility, peer pressure, stressful events and parental negligence and whose consequences are detrimental to the teenagers’ lives.
Reasons for Teenage Drug Use
Teenage is a very challenging stage of development because people want to try out new things. However, establishing those ones who will want to experiment new things and prevent them from getting into this problem is hard. Nowadays, drugs are found everywhere, making them easily available to teenagers. This is one of the causes of drug abuse teenagers. A lot of teenagers are tempted to use them because they are excited over the resultant effect.
Another factor of drug abuse is peer pressure among the teens. This is a sense of belonging among the teenagers. When growing up, a natural and important part is someone belonging in a certain group. Naturally, teenagers want other teens to like them and the behaviors they do. They may want to join a group that is abusing marijuana, heroin or alcohol and end up using these drugs in order to get a sense of belonging. Curiosity may lead to drug abuse among teens. Many teenagers are curious about alcohol, marijuana and other illegal drugs. Even though they learn in school that some of these drugs are harmful, some of them abuse them in order to satiate their curiosity. In addition, parents may lead in drug abuse among the teens.
On the other hand, many teenagers are stressed with education, poor results in school and various adolescents’ challenges. The teens have used unsuitable ways to deal with their stresses and problems. This is by using drugs such as marijuana, alcohol, tobacco and heroin to ease their stresses (Carl & Oakley, 2008). Many of them consider using these drugs to cheer them up and comfort them thereby reducing stress. Other teenagers tend to have high risk behaviors and are courageous. This is because they think that nothing bad will take place if they abuse drugs.
Edith (2001) asserts that a parent, who abuses drugs or does not spend much time with the child, will not know the problems affecting a teen. This will lead to freedom among the teenager by trying to use the substances the parent is taking. Bad relationships between the teenager and the parent may lead in drug abuse. Lack of moral support from the parent is another negligence that leads to drug abuse. Many parents do not spend time with the teenagers, thereby not assisting them in guidance and counseling.
Consequences of drug abuse in teenagers
When a teenager abuses a certain drug occasionally, a substance abuse problem will develop, therefore leading to relapse when trying to stop using the drug. In school, a teenager may not pay attention and focus properly. Teenagers abusing drugs will possibly engage themselves in sexual activities putting them at risks of acquiring sexual transmitted diseases, pregnancies and victimization. Drug abuse may also lead to hallucinations, anxiety or mood swings among the teens (Schaefer, 2010).
According to Schaefer (2010), hallucination may lead to a teenager seeing or hearing things that are not there. Either of these disorders may result in the death of a teenager by suicide. Using anabolic steroids may lead to liver diseases, heart attacks and cancer. Depending on how a teenager abuses drugs, it can affect the teen’s body by either having permanent damage in the brain mainly associated with inhaling drugs.
Conclusion
Drug abuse is increasing due to lack of proper care and drug education to the teens. Parents are supposed to know that drug abuse among the teens is real. Clear communication between the parent and the teenager is vital in decreasing drug abuse. The parent is needed to educate his or her child on the negative emotional, functional and physical effects of drugs (Dryden-Edwards, 2011). When a parent supervises a teenager adequately, the teen might not end up abusing any drug. It is a key responsibility of a parent to know where a teenager is and who he or she is socializing with. Limiting the teenagers contact to substances that can be abused such as prescribed medications kept in homes will assist in reducing drug abuse. Parents need to be good role models and show love to the teenagers. Honest and open drug discussions will diminish drug abuse among teens.
References
Carl, H., Ksir, C. & Oakley, R. (2008). Drugs, society, and human behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill
Edith, H. (2001). For teenagers living with a parent who abuses alcohol/drugs. London: iUniverse
Schaefer, D. (2010).Choices and consequences. California: Hazelden
Dryden-Edwards, R. (2011). Teen drug abuse. Medicine Net.com, 3. Retrieved from < http://www.medicinenet.com/teen_drug_abuse/page3.htm#how_can_parents_prevent_drug_use >
Drug and alcohol abuse among teens
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Drug and alcohol abuse among teens
Drug and alcohol abuse refers to patterned use of the substances without approved or supervised professional care. Due to the excessive usage or usage against the laid down rules and policies, side effects such as mood altering or psychoactive activities are noticed. Since the abuse tends to encourage criminal and antisocial behavior, the government has laid down straight laws regarding drug and alcohol abuse especially for minorities. Although it is illegal in most countries for teens to abuse drugs and alcohol, the practice is still quite common especially to teens aged less than 21 years. Most families in the United States struggle with teen alcoholism and drug misuse, and this has led to the rise of professional counseling centers and family and teen professional therapy for outpatients and inpatient. According to a recent research by Nevada (2012) alcohol and marijuana are the most abused drugs among teens in the United States.
Nevada a major the national substance abuse center has continued to carry out multiple research concerning the topic especially on areas of preventing the teens from drug abuse as well as ways of minimizing the huge number of teens abusing substances. From Nevada statistical records 28.9 percent of teens in the United States abuse alcohol while 12.5 percent abuse alcohol with other secondary drugs. The records of the year 2012 show that rather than alcohol teens heavy abuse cocaine, marijuana, heroin and meth from as early as 12 years in the United States. Though 66.2 of these teens are male female teens still abuse alcohol at very high rates. After analyzing the Nevada substance abuse statistics, it is worth noting that the results are slightly higher than those presented in the national substance abuse statistics. The difference between the two statistical records is mainly brought about by the continuous personalized research of Nevada. Nevada handles even the minute cases which patient may not go public about, it also concentrates on both the densely and low populated regions of the country while the national data is carried out by the government is focused on the densely populated areas such as towns.
Due to the rising number of teens abusing drugs and alcohol one may wonder why cognitive abilities do not assist in preventing them from irrational behaviors. The main reasons are because they may not be able to comprehend information taught to them on major ways of preventing irrational behaviors due to their busy social life styles. One reason is that cognitive functioning do not necessary influence the outcome of one activity such as drug abuse but can be noticed in other areas such as improved nutrition and exercise opportunity. Cognitive reasoning can also fail to assist in preventing drug abuse if the individual fails to embrace the existing treatment programs and other laid down developmental sessions.
However, even with the high rise of drug and alcohol abuse among teens there is still hope to the families facing the challenge or trying to prevent their teens as well as the teens themselves. There are many excellent literature educative materials that can assist. For instance, an article by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, titled “Needs Assessment” which discusses how teens and families can solve substance abuse by cognitive impairment and journal Effects of early adolescent drug use by Scheier and Botvin retrieved from which talks about the physical consequences of chronic alcohol and drug use and be of great assistance.
Bottom line, the topic sheds light on many crucial topic revolving around teen behavior and causes of failure. It assist us learn the important of cognitive strategies in early stages of one life and benefits of critical thinking.
Works Cited
Scheier, Lawrence and Botvin Gilbert. Effects of Early Adolescent Drug Use: A Develometal Structural Model: Cornell University Medical College. 2005 HYPERLINK “https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:bd-rpDSr0TQJ:www.larsri.org/docs/Effects%2520of%2520Early%2520Adolescent%2520Drug%2520Use%2520on%2520Cognitive%2520Efficacy%2520in%2520Early-Late%2520NEW.pdf+why+adolescents%E2%80%99+do+not+use+increased+cognitive+abilities,&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESijfdhuLjvSFFj51c8iFA6mDuAngwMfTOC2Wjj4KWZ42iZf54MAO0u2Ey5tW1Emea_sABs7bi2qnJPmrHmHpwdXIPBjVZvJkNT4acYBSIFGZq7J-bWYsYfMIxor6ijEuO7n5abp&sig=AHIEtbT70EDSkm4Pyb1oEpm9_8cEf3gK_A” https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:bd-rpDSr0TQJ:www.larsri.org/docs/Effects%2520of%2520Early%2520Adolescent%2520Drug%2520Use%2520on%2520Cognitive%2520Efficacy%2520in%2520Early-Late%2520NEW.pdf+why+adolescents%E2%80%99+do+not+use+increased+cognitive+abilities,&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESijfdhuLjvSFFj51c8iFA6mDuAngwMfTOC2Wjj4KWZ42iZf54MAO0u2Ey5tW1Emea_sABs7bi2qnJPmrHmHpwdXIPBjVZvJkNT4acYBSIFGZq7J-bWYsYfMIxor6ijEuO7n5abp&sig=AHIEtbT70EDSkm4Pyb1oEpm9_8cEf3gK_A
Canfield, Towle, & Gibbs, Needs Assessment: Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Nevada State Health Division.2003 retrieved from HYPERLINK “http://health.2k.state.nv.us/BADA/2003/NeedsAssessment.pdf” http://health.2k.state.nv.us/BADA/2003/NeedsAssessment.pdf