Athlete Drug Testing
February 14th, 2010 | 
Author: Athlete drug testing is performed at various levels from school athletes to Olympic games. These drug tests are conducted to identify the drug abuse of the athletes and put them off. Athlete drug testing has strict principles that restrict the drug abused athletes from the competition. This has forced the athletes to avoid all the banned substances. These tests will be confirmed with GC/MS (Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry) method, which detects various chemical features of the drug substances.
Why Athlete Drug Testing
In view to deter the illicit drug abuse there are certain reasons for setting up the athlete drug testing. The following are some of them:
• Restrict And Deter Drug Use: Athlete drug testing detects the drug abuse of the participants. It can put them off and restrict from future abuse. It provides certain educational and awareness programs for their welfare.
• To Avoid Unfair Competition: The drug-abused athletes have an unfair competitive advantage of improved performance. Athlete drug testing process takes required measures to stop violating the principles of athletics. It is an ideal solution for examining the drug usage, which preserves the competition from unfair practices.
• To Avoid Hazardous Influence: The drug-abused athletes will certainly influence children and teenagers negatively. It can also damage the reputation of the athletic program and the sports authority. Therefore, athlete drug testing can prevent such harmful impacts.
• Secure Athletes Health: There would be severe hazards of drug abuse in athletic activities. Therefore, drug testing can help the athletes to lead a productive and healthy lifestyle and shows the means to prevent drug abuse.
Athlete Drug Testing Procedure
The athlete drug testing begins with the collection of urine specimen from all the athletes participating in the competition. For some substances detection, it may require blood specimen for testing. Though it is a simple procedure, it is commenced with a formal and highly regulated process. This is to make sure that the specimen collected is tamper proof. This require athletes to sign a contract saying that they have understood and accepted the regulations of the program and are willing to participate in drug testing.
There will be well-trained examiners appointed to carry out the specimen collection and conduct the drug testing. The athlete who results positive in the drug test will be restricted from the athletics, so that there would be a fair competition among the athletes. The positive resulted athletes have the right to perform second analysis of their specimen, which will be observed by the athlete or their representative.
The above framework gives you the essential information about the athlete drug testing and its purposes and procedure.
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omg they should experiment on their MOTHER with meth, not these poor little innocent helpless mice
I am against athletes being tested for drugs, unless every student in the school is tested. Quite simply, I find it discriminatory against jocks. What about the science fair entrants, the art contest, the home economics shows, etc.? What's good for one is good for all.
I am in favor of mandatory drug testing…. for all students. Those caught with drugs in their system will have their parents informed, and/or the juvenile authorities.
What I do not like is when something like that is done in a discriminatory fashion.
Sue
I doubt anyone consciously invented it, most likely these things get accidentally discovered. It’s funny, just sinister things hanging around just waiting to be discovered by sinister people who will exploit these tools in some way to accomplish sinister goals. If anything this just proves one more time that humans have an evil nature somewhere inside.
For the same reason nobody should, nobody has the right to invade a persons body, or to take a persons bodily fluids for their own selfish curiosity, besides being a major invasion of privacy, it's none of anybody's damn business, the president, judges, congress, etc. don't have to take drug tests,(although, THEY should), but they think it's okay for everyone else, what are they hiding?
lol apparently C4 can be used as a recreational drug and is the most dangerous thing for your body to take in but rather than getting you high it would probably just kill you.
I think it should.
I'd love to see it in my school.
I know so many people that would get busted.
Every meth-head in the world wishes they lived in that cage! lol
Absolutely they should. If Wal-Mart makes its perspective employees take one why shouldn't the Congress? It makes sense to me.
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1) Testing evens the playing field. When athletes are assured that any person taking supplements will not be allowed to compete, this encourages people to stay away from them.
2) Encourages healthy living…many supplements are bad for the body. Also, research shows that athletes are more prone to taking illegal drugs (not just performance enhancing drugs) that others. To know that they run the risk of being caught would decrease illegal drug use. There has, of course, been primary research which says the opposite, so be prepared to defend this.
Nope.
Pretty sure if they did that they wouldn't have any athletes..
that's the downside of living in a little town in MN.
@Rockyzach88 Fine then can u explain to me what meth is all about because i have to do reasearch on this and u seem to know what you are talking about.
@sockeron hahaha they would
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@0123biteme your an idiot. Lets experiment on your mother u fking idiot
uumn.. 'coz NAC think that they have more important things to do than to babysit a chicken?
talk to your coach -each school or team will have different rules. submit your list of prescription meds & you'll be fine.