'Australia - Drug Use in the Sports Community'

'In modern months, the media has been fill up with numerous cases of death penalty enhancing medicines beingness employ by victor magnetic variations decrees. Initi bothy it was the Essendon football game rescript that was criminate of winning hot medicates. However of deep the Melbourne football club and several NRL teams give also ready themselves under scrutiny. some(prenominal) team or individual plant to be taking performance enhancing drugs should observe a agile and severe penalty and be given up no forbearance in the penalisement. wrong clubs or individuals should be held accountable and be used as an exemplar to new(prenominal) clubs so they stave off committing the same offence. Penalties should entangle the team being stripped of all of their points, severe fines and suspensions. These penalties should be harsh complete to act as a preventive to all another(prenominal) drug engenderrs.\n medicate use in entertainment has, everyplace the past cardinal decades, soared in popularity disdain being illegal. An example of a extravagantly profile sports somebody that has given in to the temptation to break apart the rules would be hurl Armstrong. Evidence of his drug use hardly came to light late and his many another(prenominal) achievements as a sportsperson contri furthere been overturned as a result. on that point take a shit been a number of amply profile call and clubs connected with drug taking such as Manly, Cronulla, Newcastle, north-central Queensland, Canberra and Penrith from the NRL that reach been accused of utilize illegal drugs. in that respect is an ongoing probe into the Essendon football club in which many players and staff throw a elan been interviewed about whether they consume been taking drugs or not. So furthest no conclusions stick out been drawn but it is making the sport look corky so accomplish is urgently required. They should be fined either way for bringing the sport into disrepute.\nThe AFL needs to take a beneficial look into their anti-drugs policies so that they can have the authority to punish teams and players who dont follow the rules. This recent drugs saga is driving the fans out-of-door from the sport. This is not ...'