Is Random Testing the Right Way to Combat Drug Abuse by Athletes?

Bill Fralic and Alan L. Sack analyze their thoughts on the issue of random testing drug abuse by athletes. Bill Fralic, an offensive guard for the Atlanta Falcons, believes that random testing is the only way to stop the use of illegal drugs. Alan L. Sack, Honors Program chairman at the University of New Haven, believes that random testing is humiliating, inconvenient and it violates privacy to the athletes that are drug-free. Although both writers …

…athletes and what should be done to cure them. Overall, these arguments gave two alternative views for combating drug abuse by athletes, demonstrating how different values cause people to perceive different realities and construct different facts. United States. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Drug Misuse: Anabolic Steroid Restriction Act of 1989. Hearing May 8, 1989. Washington Government Printing Office, 1989. Sack, Alan L. "Is random testing the right way to combat drug abuse by athletes?" New York Times 25 Nov. 1988.