'Australia - Drug Use in the Sports Community'

'In upstart months, the media has been flooded with umpteen cases of feat enhancing medicates macrocosm subroutine by professional playfulnesss clubs. initi all toldy it was the Essendon football club that was acc wasting diseased of victorious illegal drugs. still of late the Melbourne football club and several(prenominal) NRL police squads ca-ca excessively found themselves down the stairs scrutiny. Any team or individualist found to be fetching performance enhancing drugs should receive a swift and prankish penalty and be assumption no leniency in the punishment. Guilty clubs or individuals should be held accountable and be used as an type to other clubs so they avoid committing the equivalent offence. Penalties should include the team being nude of all of their points, stern fines and suspensions. These penalties should be grating enough to present as a deterrent to all other drug takers.\nDrug use in sport has, over the old two decades, soared in popu larity despite being illegal. An example of a high pen sports person that has given in to the lure to break the rules would be Lance Armstrong. order of his drug use only came to return recently and his many achievements as a sportsperson have been confused as a result. There have been a sum of high visibility names and clubs attached with drug taking such as Manly, Cronulla, Newcastle, North Queensland, capital of Australia and Penrith from the NRL that have been criminate of using illegal drugs. There is an on-going investigation into the Essendon football club in which many players and cater have been interviewed approximately whether they have been taking drugs or not. So far no conclusions have been pinched but it is do the sport manner bad so action is urgently required. They should be fined either way for delivery the sport into disrepute.\nThe AFL necessarily to take a serious go to into their anti-drugs policies so that they back end have the dominance to punish teams and players who dont attend the rules. This recent drugs saga is driving force the fans away from the sport. This is not ...'