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Drugs and Sports It is an ethical question whether or not athletes should take drugs to enhance their performance in sports today. While athletes who take drugs to enhance their performance find them to be beneficial, the drugs they are taking can actually be very dangerous to their health. The use and addiction of drugs can happen to anyone. Whether they are rich, poor, black or white it happens. It happens to athletes. Even people who are in great physical and mental shape are not safe from drug addiction (Peck 14-15). Society today is greatly influenced by drugs. Not only can drugs benefit the society but also they can be abused causing serious effects (Taylor 5). Drugs have an impact on society starting with crime and ending in death. There are various types of drugs that are used today to enhance the performance of an athlete. Along with these drugs are the effects that they have on the body and ways to prevent the use of drugs. “There’s a saying that to be a great athlete today you need a great coach, a great chemist, and a great lawyer,” states Dr. Donald Catlin (Dudley 89). Although every athlete needs a great coach they should not need a great chemist and lawyer. But the sad part is that they do. The reaso