Playing with Propranolol

Propranolol use by musicians is an interesting case study for several. It is a drug that can enhance one's performance and may increase's advantage in the competitive field of the performing arts. As such, its gives rise to moral questions similar to those raised by the use of by athletes, such as fairness, or harm to the individual. In, ambiguity about the meaning of performance anxiety and propranolol complicates the moral issues. Is performance anxiety a normal phenomenon, most musicians believe? At what point does it become pathological? Does the that physicians prescribe propranolol to treat performance anxiety confer it the status of disease? Or does the fact that musicians often obtain prescription drug from their friends and take it before any important constitute simply another form of drug abuse?