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Social Implications
Propranolol use as a performance aid for musicians, actors and public speakers has been argued to be the moral equivalent of sports professionals using anabolic steroids. Its ability to treat bodily anxiety symptoms activated by the sympathetic nervous system can be seen as giving participating individuals an unfair advantage - especially in competition scenarios. In a 1987 study by ICSOM, it was revealed that 27% of interviewed members admitted to using beta blockers such as propranolol for musical performances. Despite stage fright being perceived as pathological for only approximately 10-16% of sampled performers, there is now a growing trend to label all natural biological processes and responses, such as stress, a disease. Health, which was once understood as being the absence of disease, is instead now defined as enhancing or improving on nature with pharmaceuticals now targeting conditions that were previously thought to be unavoidable or irreversible.