This blog is intended to show the research I have been doing for my college persuasive writing class. I will be researching PED's (performance enhancing drugs). I hope to have an understanding of what exactly PED's are, what they do, and how they work. I hope to understand the differences between different PED's, and also to look into how often they are used. Specifically, I want to research the role of PED's in sports over the past thirty to forty years. I want to know if they should be legal in sports, and research the ethics behind them. I want to dig deeper into examples of past athletes who have been caught using PED's, and learn about their trials. As I become more learned on the subject, I want to answer questions pertaining to future use of PED's, and the legacy left by great athletes that have used them. I will research why athletes choose to use them, and how quickly drug use has diffused from teammate to teammate, team to team, and sport to sport. These are the questions I hope to answer, in order for me to draw my own conclusion on the subject.

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