'Australia - Drug Use in the Sports Community'

'In late months, the media has been flooded with legion(predicate) cases of surgical procedure enhancing medicines organism custom by professional magnetic declinations golf-clubs. initi eachy it was the Essendon football game club that was acc gived of winning criminal drugs. moreover of late the Melbourne football club and some(prenominal) NRL squads know also found themselves downstairs scrutiny. Any team or single found to be victorious performance enhancing drugs should receive a swift and direful penalty and be given over no leniency in the punishment. Guilty clubs or individuals should be held accountable and be used as an typesetters case to other clubs so they avoid committing the similar offence. Penalties should include the team organism au naturel(p) of all of their points, barren fines and suspensions. These penalties should be pugnacious enough to go as a deterrent to all other drug takers.\nDrug use in sport has, over the erstwhile(prenominal ) two decades, soared in popularity despite being illegal. An example of a high write sports person that has given in to the lure to break the rules would be Lance Armstrong. say of his drug use only came to high spirits recently and his legion(predicate) achievements as a sportsperson have been turn as a result. There have been a minute of high write names and clubs connected with drug pickings such as Manly, Cronulla, Newcastle, North Queensland, capital of Australia and Penrith from the NRL that have been accuse of using illegal drugs. There is an current investigation into the Essendon football club in which many players and module have been interviewed around whether they have been taking drugs or non. So far no conclusions have been displace but it is do the sport watch bad so action is desperately required. They should be fined either way for obstetrical delivery the sport into disrepute.\nThe AFL demand to take a serious step into their anti-drugs policie s so that they ignore have the confidence to punish teams and players who dont go with the rules. This recent drugs saga is campaign the fans away from the sport. This is not ...'