Athletes And Steroids

Steroid abuse has become a huge problem in professional sports today. Athletes are now using steroids to gain a competitive edge over their opponents. Also, the athletes are using the steroids to recover quickly from major injuries or surgeries. Many former superstar athletes have been caught taking steroids during the season and offseason.

Over the years, this has been forgotten as people focus only on winning. From 1968 on, hundreds of Olympic athletes have been caught doping. PED’s are considered cheating in today’s sports. Although every athlete is determined to win, PED’s have no place in sports. When athletes resort to using these drugs, the endanger their health and their safety. An example of this is the death of Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen who died in the Olympics from the use of amphetamines which caused him to lose consciousness and fall from his bicycle to his death. Another consequence of PED use is setting a bad example and being a bad role model. In 2007 many fans were let down when Barry Bonds tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Many fans, both young and old, looked up to Barry and were disappointed with his choices. With so many baseball players using performance-enhancing drugs today, the integrity of the game has been lost. The players who use PED’s negatively affect the players who play the game without cheating. One of the worst consequences of all for using PED’s is being suspended or banned. Since the 1960’s, the technology for PED testing has improved and more athletes have been caught, suspended or

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.”

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.

Is it worth trying to win a legal case even if you were doomed to lose from the start? Does it show bravery or blind ignorance? In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee demonstrates the rigged legal system in Maycomb, Alabama. Portraying the role of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses setting-based characterization, symbolic metaphors, and persistent foreshadowing in order to show that even a respectable, honest lawyer cannot win a case defending a black man in 1930s Alabama. Initially, Atticus quickly concludes that they should be upfront about what happened that evening and never thinks or mentions lying about the incident.

The benefits of using some types of performance-enhancing drugs are obvious. Professional athletes have a very 'short shelf life' as competitors in most sports and must cash in on their talents as soon as possible. For Olympic athletes, the

Athletes or players who use steroids may also have more injuries. “While performance enhancers can make bigger, stronger, and faster, they also carry increased of certain injuries and health complications for users” (Fogel, Curtis). Steroid users “....place others at risk of

As the popularity of sports continues to increase in society, so has the use of performance enhancing drugs, primarily anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids increase the amount of testosterone in the body which allows for increased muscular development. These drugs have been known to be used in all kinds of different sports. Athletes will use these drugs to try to please fans, receive a large contract, and to try to keep up with the players who are already using these drugs. This is creating a negative impact on the sports and on the lives of the athletes. The use of steroids in sports is bad because it is not healthy for the athletes, it hurts the spirit of sports, and it will have an effect on the future generations of athletes.

While they are illegal the companies can experiment and create their own undercover. While their condition may seem to meet health standards, years into the future the long term effects of these drugs may never leave their system and can wreak havoc on former athletes lives. Most typical of these drugs are Anabolic Androgenic Steroids, which are injections of hormones which promote masculine features that promote tissue building and secondary reproductive system development. Usually this results in side effects like greasy/ oily skin and acne, infertility, hypertension, liver and kidney dysfunction, aggressive behaviour, and tumors. This can also harbor sex-specific effects, like in females: low voices, excess hair, baldness, and deeper voices and in males the opposite reaction giving them breast development, lower testosterone and risk for prostate cancer. A chilling example of these detrimental effects were seen at the olympics between 1968 and 1988 when East Germany had used state-funded drugs on countless athletes. From as young as the ages of 8, prospects were told to take certain “vitamins” everyday by coaches.

Steroids have a long-term, negative effect on the human body. These effects range from cardiovascular problems to mental and psychological issues such as rage and anger problems. Steroid use has been linked to increased alcohol consumption, marijuana use, cigarette smoking, and narcotic use (Buckman, Farris & Yusko, 2013). Many athletes may not be aware of the lasting effects steroids can have because all they are worried about is their performance, not their health.

Doping has widely become known as the use of banned substances and practices by sports personnel particularly athletes in an attempt to improve sporting performances. No sensible fan of sport today denies the prevalence of drugs in virtually every major sport, yet none would argue they can ever be eliminated completely. Money alone would seem to guarantee that much. High profile athletes today are competing for high stakes, not just millions, but dozens of millions. The fear of losing everything career, opportunity, contracts, name, fame, and money is pushing more sportsmen all over the world to use performance enhancing drugs, mainly

Do you want to want to become the peak athlete that you know your body is capable of? Well, this paper will not do that for you, but it will tell you how, and it will tell you why it should be legal to do so. Doping in sports is one of the most extensive debates within the realm of athletics. Whether it be injecting anabolic steroids, consuming them, or blood doping, athletes will do drugs. Doping has no effect on the viewership of the sport. Athletes can always find ways to cheat the system, and trying to prevent the use seems impossible. The use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be legalized, as long as it is allowed under medical supervision.

There are numerous ways that women and young girls are impacted by the media and their bias. There are many different types of bias used in the media. These biases are bias by omission, bias by selection, bias by placement, bias by labeling, and bias by spin. Media bias has a great deal of influence on society, but the media has a detrimental amount of influence on women in young girls. Some of these effects are positive, but most of them are negative. Stereotyping, sexuality, and body image are among the most persuaded when it comes to media bias. It is essential that every single person be well informed about the tactics used by the media in these categories not only to keep themselves from being negatively impacted but also protect their children from these tactics.

In the article, “Performance Enhancing Drugs, Paternalism, Meritocracy, and Harm to Sports” by Nicholas Dixon, argues that PED 's should remain banned due to the many different medical risks one could develop when taking drugs mostly, anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids might be the most popular performance-enhancing drugs out there today, but most definitely isn 't the only one being used. There are many medical problems associated with these types of steroids, “they include heart disease, cancer, or other damage to the liver, and damage to both males ' and females ' reproductive system” (Dixon, 247). Anabolic steroids affect an athlete both mentally and physically. The psychological damage one may have is an increased aggressiveness and sexual appetite, sometimes resulting in abnormal

Abstract:  With the increase of competition has also come the need to become bigger and stronger than the opponent.  The use of steroids among athletes has caused the focus of the game to change.  No longer does an athlete want to win by doing their best, but they want to become bigger and have an advantage over the opponent.  Ultimately, all athletes feel that they need to use performance-enhancing drugs to compete at the same level. Despite all of the warnings and information on performance-enhancing drugs, athletes continue to use them and overlook the potential health risks associated with steroids.