Crime and NO punishment: Thoughts on the Use and Abuse of Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Haugen, Kjetil K., Solberg, Harry A., Petroczi, Andrea, Nepu

ISBN 10: 1636486010 / ISBN 13: 9781636486017

Published by Eliva Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crime and NO punishment: Thoughts on the Use and Abuse of Performance-Enhancing Drugs
• Publisher: Eliva Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1636486010
• ISBN 13: 9781636486017
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Doping or use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) is one of sports major problems. Not everybody agrees to this allegation. Some argue that sports are unfair by nature due to talent, genetic and financial differences between athletes. As such, doping may work to increase fairness (and ‘uncertainty of outcome’) where use of the illegal substance may be a mean for the untalented, genetically unfit, or poor athlete. These persons suggest allowing (controlled) use of PEDs. Others argue that sport is about measuring talents, genetics, and financial differences, and that use of PEDs is unethical cheating. Some economists, among them me are less interested in the ethical conflict. Here, the idea is that both demand and supply may be adversely affected by free PEDs. The audience may be less interested in watching “medical championships” and parents may be less interested in sending their kids to train. These problems are discussed in chapter 1 in the book. Given a view like mine that doping is dangerous for sports, much research has been performed to understand athletes’ personal motives for using PEDs, and hence the possibility to fight the phenomenon. One part of this research may be labelled ‘economics of doping’ and, the next two two chapters of this book treat this subject. In chapter 4, problems related to empirical analysis of doping is discussed, while chapter 5 treats an alternative strategy of sport redesign as a mean to limit the abuse of PEDs. Chapter 6 looks at an optimal amount of doping. The final chapter (7) draws the line between other illegalities in sport and doping.