Drug testing in sports ensures fairness, integrity, and safety by detecting prohibited substances in athletes' samples.
PEDs enhance performance unnaturally. Testing deters usage, ensures fairness, protects health, but faces logistical and ethical challenges.
Recreational drug testing in sports aims to deter misuse, protect health, ensure fairness, but raises ethical concerns.
WADA's banned list ensures consistency, global collaboration, accountability, but faces complexity and enforcement challenges.
Urine testing: widely accepted, detects recent use, but limited detection window and susceptibility to manipulation.
Blood testing: broad detection, longer window, but needs trained staff, invasive, and raises privacy concerns.
Hair testing: reveals long-term use, hard to tamper with, but slow to show recent use, susceptible to contamination.
Saliva testing: fast, non-invasive, detects recent use, but limited detection window and sensitive to external factors.
Drug testing ensures fair play but faces challenges of false positives, privacy concerns, and evolving doping methods.