Anabolic Steroids In Sports

Steroids are a hot topic of debate and controversy in the world of athletes and sports. Steroids fall under the umbrella of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) and are a dark cloud that have been hovering over the sports world for a long time. In the world today, steroids are the most relevant in major league baseball. Many baseball players, such as Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun, and Mark McGwire, just to name a few, have ruined their reputations because of steroids. There are repercussions for PED use in major league baseball, which have cut down on the substance abuse by players but have nowhere near eliminated the problem.

President George W. Bush says “Steroids are dangerous in sports and steroids send the wrong message: There are shortcuts to accomplishments and performance is more important than character.”

Furthermore, steroids are terrible for the sports world in general. Athletes who abuse steroids cheat the game and themselves. “The use of performance-enhancing drugs by professional athletes, or doping, has been acknowledged as a problem since at least the 1960s” (Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports Fast Facts). Many superstar athletes had their reputation completely ruined because of being caught of cheating the game they play. Steroids are ruining professionals sports the more and more athletes decide to abuse performance-enhancing

The competitive drive to win at all cost is fierce among athletes. Winning at all cost often includes using one of many performance enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids. Many athletes use performance enhancing drugs, like steroids, to achieve higher goals and set higher records than other drug-free successful athletes. Although athletes are performing at higher levels when using such drugs, what is the cost? Finally anabolic steroids should remain banned from sports because their use results in many harmful side effects; because their use violates sports regulations, and because their use can cause death.

Just take the shot! It will help you this season; you will be able to do things that you never would have thought possible. Will taking steroids really help your performance as a professional athlete? Many professional athletes find that this is the best way to enhance their athletic abilities but it only promotes physical damage in the long run. If the use of steroids isn't stopped by professional leagues it just shows that they don't care about their athletes and will continue to watch many of them drop like flies from physical damage caused by steroids. The use of anabolic steroids on professional levels should be banned, and any athlete that chooses to use them should be suspended from their

Some argue that Olympic athletes should perform at their absolute maximum potential, and steroids should be allowed if they assist in achieving this goal. A counterpoint to this argument is the constant improvement in measured “success”, that is Olympic record setting, in spite of the ban on steroids.

When you were a kid, didn’t you want to play a professional sport? What would you give to be one of the best athletes in the world? Would you risk your reputation? Your health? Would you be willing to die? Although many studies have come out saying that steroids diminish one’s health, people still take them hoping to be the best. Imagine if you were a 28 year old who left college early because a pro team “guaranteed” you that you would play in the big leagues. Yet you just got stuck in the minors, and the only way you could get to the big’s was to take a pill that made you super-strong and super-fast. It would make sense to just take it. But what if that pill shrunk your testicles, hurt your heart and vascular system, and made

A person can take a good athlete, one who works hard training and conditioning and turn them into a great one with the use of anabolic steroids. Someone may ask how? In physical sports, the stronger, faster, and more endurance, the better of an advantage they have over the other person. A good example of this is in baseball. Take men like Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Sammy Sosa, all were men in baseball who could absolutely crush a baseball and all used steroids. In 1998, Mark McGwire, broke the record for most home runs in a single season, and he later admitted to using anabolic steroids when he broke the record. In an interview, he quoted “I wish I never played during the steroid era” this shows just how remorseful of the advantages he had from the steroids. The performance advantages that come with steroids also can come with financial advantages. With amazing performances by an athlete, they will be more sought after by other teams, and therefore, have a better chance of earning more money when contracts are proposed to them. Since they use steroids and perform at a higher skill level, they have a better chance of making more money compared to someone who does not. Alex Rodriguez signed a ten year contract with the New York Yankees for 275 million dollars. This made him the highest paid baseball player in history, and one of the highest paid athletes in the world. Then in 2014, he admitted to using steroids, while given immunity in a court of law, to confess who he purchased the drugs. For years, he used steroids to dominate in baseball, and establish his greatness as a player to earn a large contract before he was

Anabolic Steroids are commonly viewed as a miracle drug in order to increase muscle growth and definition, but what most users of the drug don’t know are the life altering effects that prolonged use can cause. When the drug was released in the late 50’s by scientists working for the Soviet Union, they had no idea what the lasting effects were going to be. At first the drug seemed to be almost a miracle, it helped the Soviet weightlifting team beat the American team by a long shot, but then the lifters began to experience certain bodily changes that were actually the onsets of horrendous life changing side effects that could have been prevented with further studies. Since that time, most states in North America and around have banned the distribution and use of the drug completely due to its adverse effects on the body, if caught using such drugs in professional sporting communities, it could land the athlete thousands of dollars’ worth of fines and they can even face up to five years in jail if they are found with the drug in their possession. On top of this, the risks involved can potentially alter the normal way of life for that athlete for the rest of his life, such risks include hormonal changes, cardiovascular problems, behavioral issues, and even problems with the reproductive system.

“…medical researchers believe that between 1 and 3 million youths and adults have taken anabolic steroids in one form or another specifically to enhance their looks or athletic performances,” stated Nuwer (Nuwer, 61). As astounding as these figures are, the number of performance drug users is steadily increasing. With this progressively increasing numbers, it is projected that millions more will use steroids in the immediate future (Newer, 61). Athletes have always sought an advantage in competition even if ignoring the law and their health if necessary. Using drugs of any sort to facilitate an athlete’s athletic ability should be illegal. The use of performance enhancing drugs is not only detrimental to the user but it also creates an

The final aspect of unethical behavior is drug-enhanced performance. Steroids give a few players an unfair upper hand over others. Competitors accept that by taking steroids it will have an advantage on their livelihood and advance them to the top of their perfomrance. Fans view steroid use as a noteworthy corruptiont in sports, and the competitors that utilize the medication. There may be a admisable purpose behind steroid utilization. One illustration would be that the medication helps the competitor overcome individual injuries. Steroids help the repair process, by rapidly repairing joint tissues permitting them to come back to the diversion quickly and to contend all the more aggressively. Steroids are particularly well known with senior

Besides the long list of negative side effects that steroids bring, they also ruin the integrity of sports. Sports are all about working hard and striving through adversity in order to reach a goal. Steroids only give athletes a shortcut that is an easy way out to reaching that goal. Before performance enhancing drugs became a world wide phenomenon athletes were forced to use their only option of working out naturally and pushing themselves beyond their limits in order to be the best that they can be. Now a day’s, many athletes do not have the same dedication and work ethic to earn their results the old fashion and natural way. Whether or not the use of performance enhancing drugs should be allowed in sports should depend on the purpose and intentions of their use.

Professional sports are a competition between the greatest athletes in the world. And when I go to a game, that’s exactly what I expect to see. Sports are entertainment. There is no room for purity and respecting the limits that athletes had in the past. Modern athletes should utilize all the resources that they have available to them. This includes steroids, which enhance an athlete’s performance. After all, performance is what really matters.

Opponents of steroid prohibition argued that steroids will enhance their performance in competitions (Linnaeus, 2015). It is understandable that all the athletes want to make their performances as great as possible. Also, they all want to attain better-levels of performances, to increase their strength with perfection and to make themselves noticed and shimmer in long-term using (Linnaeus, 2015). However, proponent of argue that People who have spirit of sport they can use their own motivation to gain

First, The New York Times said that the people who take steroids are better than the ones who work hard and follow the rules (Guttenfelder). Even if you work hard you probably won’t be as good as those who take steroids, making people not have to work hard to be good at sports. You can be good at something just by taking a pill or a shot, which is a reason why steroids should be banned. Second, “ the athletes who use them are breaking the rules and getting an unfair advantage over others”(Douglas). This means that athletes that take steroids are getting better than athletes that don’t. Kids do not have to work in order get better in sports, making steroids just like cheating, making the game meaningless. Lastly, “from sleeping in an altitude chamber to consuming sport drinks to taking anti-inflammatories, improve athletic performance, and are not only allowed, but encouraged. (Katz).Pfeople are being encouraged to take performance enhancing supplements so that they don’t have to work as hard to be good, making them way more popular. Also, many people are taking these drugs to get an advantage over others in a way that they don’t have to work hard. If this continues, it could ruin