Why Do They Make These Drugs for Horses?

Question by nancy_marzola: Why do they make these drugs for horses?
Do you think that if they didn’t make these drugs that things would be better or worse?

Best answer:

Answer by kmnmiamisax
Worse… at least someone makes the drugs and they’re tested before they’re given to the animals. If the drug companies didn’t make the drugs for horses, then trainers would find other things to give their horses… either they’d mix up drugs themselves or they’d give human aspirin to their horses… none of that can be a good thing. Sometimes a horse needs to take some medication… sometimes the horse gets a cut in the pasture and they need some bute to ease the pain… sometimes horses colic and they need some banamine to fix it. You sometimes have to take medication and horses are the same way. The problem is that there are appropriate times to take medication… horses shouldn’t take it on race day… we need the drugs, but we need better regulations. Banning the production of the drugs is not the solution.

Answer by R K
They make drugs for horses for the same reasons that they make drugs for humans!

So the simple way to answer your question, is by asking another question…..

Do you think that if they didn’t make these drugs for humans, that things would be better or worse?

The answer, of course is that things would be much worse!

Drugs are needed and for the great majority of the time, used properly! It is the timing and place of the latest infractions that has brought this matter to the forefront!

Are there drug problems in horseracing? yes
Are they widespread? No
Are they in need of fixing? yes

It is the prominence of the horses and races that is making this into the big can of worms that it is. But, in the long run, the sport will be better off for having gone through it!

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