It is generally believed, especially among athletes and practicing sports people, that the use of performance-enhancing drugs, besides improving performance, leads to the obtainment of easy results accompanied by glory and money gain. However, in doing so, they turn away from the sport meaning from an ethical point of view, using methodologies unfair other then harmful for health. It is particularly important to make it clear to adolescents, that each sportive goal should be achieved through a healthy workout, strong passion and motivation, within limits of human genetic and physiology. No attainment must be achieved without effort and hard working. There are deep ethical and healthy reasons to avoid the use of performance-enhancing drugs: not only using illicit drugs during the competition seriously threatens the health of individuals, but also it puts other athletes in a disadvantage fraudulently. The “Treaty of Lisbon”, and the specific “Resolution 2087/11” of the European Parliament on "European Dimension in Sport", address the issue of the fight against doping. The use of performance-enhancing drugs besides being a demotivating factor for athletes, seriously affects the image of agonistic sports. Therefore, it is necessary to inform and educate sport-practicing people about this issue, starting from the beginning of sportive activity, not only punishing the use of illegal substances, but also preventing this practice. Health care is the purpose of medicine, its realization is the result of our commitment, together with the help of social and educational structures. In a vision of health as a dynamic concept concerning bioethics and physical effort, each person has to take care of it, and avoid the use of illegal dangerous substances.

FIGHT AGAINST DOPING AND HEALTH PROTECTION: BIOETHICS AND PREVENTION

MAZZEO, FILOMENA;SGAMMATO, ROBERTA;ASCIONE, ANTONIO;TAFURI, Domenico;MASULLO, Mariorosario
2015-01-01

Abstract

It is generally believed, especially among athletes and practicing sports people, that the use of performance-enhancing drugs, besides improving performance, leads to the obtainment of easy results accompanied by glory and money gain. However, in doing so, they turn away from the sport meaning from an ethical point of view, using methodologies unfair other then harmful for health. It is particularly important to make it clear to adolescents, that each sportive goal should be achieved through a healthy workout, strong passion and motivation, within limits of human genetic and physiology. No attainment must be achieved without effort and hard working. There are deep ethical and healthy reasons to avoid the use of performance-enhancing drugs: not only using illicit drugs during the competition seriously threatens the health of individuals, but also it puts other athletes in a disadvantage fraudulently. The “Treaty of Lisbon”, and the specific “Resolution 2087/11” of the European Parliament on "European Dimension in Sport", address the issue of the fight against doping. The use of performance-enhancing drugs besides being a demotivating factor for athletes, seriously affects the image of agonistic sports. Therefore, it is necessary to inform and educate sport-practicing people about this issue, starting from the beginning of sportive activity, not only punishing the use of illegal substances, but also preventing this practice. Health care is the purpose of medicine, its realization is the result of our commitment, together with the help of social and educational structures. In a vision of health as a dynamic concept concerning bioethics and physical effort, each person has to take care of it, and avoid the use of illegal dangerous substances.
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