Performance Enhancing Drugs

Money, fame, Pressure, Increase chance of winning, Level the playing field

Promotes muscle growth, gives athlete ability to train harder with less fatigue, Repairs body tissues after stress.

Females develop male features, Liver and heart problems, infertility, acne

Slows heart rate so athletes is calm and steady hands, reduces anxiety.

Reduces heart rate so low that heart may stop, lowers blood pressure and causes tiredness

Increases red blood cell production, therefore increase oxygen delivery to working muscles. Improve CV fitness

Increased thickness of blood, blood clots/strokes, increased risk of heart attack

Increase muscle mass and therefore strength - burns more fat

Arthritis, heart failure, abnormal growth, diabetes

Promotes removal of fluids from body - Rapid weight loss, to mask the use of other performance enhancing drugs. Improves body composition

Dehydration, dizziness/light headed, hear/kidney failure

Reduces/masks pain or an injury, increase pain threshold

Nausea, highly addictive, serious injury, loss of concentration

Stimulates body - reduces tiredness, increases alertness and endurance, increase aggressions and reaction time

Stimulates body - reduces tiredness, increases alertness and endurance, increase aggressions and reaction time

Process of removing and storing performers blood. Removing it and then injecting it back into the blood prior to an event. - increases red blood cells, therefore increase in oxygen carrying capacity

Infection from equipment, increase thickness of blood - blood clots, stroke, HIV