Health Project
Personal Enhancement Drugs
A Little Bit of History...
The ancient Olympic champions were professionals who competed for huge cash prizes as well as olive wreaths. Most forms of what we would call cheating were perfectly acceptable to them. There is evidence that they gorged themselves on meat (not a normal dietary staple of the Greeks) and experimented with herbal medications in an effort to enhance their performances. The ancient Greek athletes also drank wine potions, used hallucinogens and ate animal hearts or testicles to try to be better athletes.
Marion Jones
Marion Lois Jones is a world champion track and field athlete and a former professional basketball player for Tusla Shock in the WNBA.
The confession
Marion won five medals in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney,Australia. She was fortified from all her medals and prizes in 2007 after confessing that she took performance enhancing drugs (steroids). She also confessed that she lied about it to a grand jury investigating performance-enhancers creations by Victor Conte and the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative.
The drug...
Marion used steriods to make her faster and stronger.
Side effects...
•grow excessive face and body hairkidney damage increased blood pressure and cholesterol (risk for heart disease) depressed immune system (risk for infections) headache and stomach ache nosebleeds severe facial and body acne decreased joint flexibility
•have their voices deepen
• experience menstrual irregularities
•have a masculinized female fetus
liver damage
Loses...
Marion lost all of her medals and rewards after admitting to using performance enhancing drugs.
Types of PEDs
Steroids
Ephedrine
Creatine
Albuterol
Sources
S'more by Hannah Gombar