Essay On Performing Enhancing Drugs

In today’s society sports are extremely popular and followed by a countless number of fans. The level of competition has risen with the followers making many sports more aggressive. As a result athletes have taken to the use of performance enhancing drugs. The effect of these drugs have exponentially blown up the level of competition in sports. Some might say these drugs increase the performance quality of sports. Essentially making the sport more fun to watch because the playing field skill is at an extremely high competition level. However, performance enhancing drugs can pose huge health risk to athletes at the professional and recreational level, and professional athletes can influence children or other adults alike into thinking it is okay to use these drugs.

First, PED use can influence kids in the wrong way and make them believe PED’s are helpful. Second, PED use is also a big problem in sports which can be fixed, through many things such as better testing, and increased education on what PED’s have an effect on your body. Finally the after effects of PED’s are also bad. They can lead to instability and serious problems that get the user into the hospital. Think twice about using steroids. Don’t end up like other athletes that have used steroids. Take them as an example of somebody not to look up

For many years sports have played huge roles in human’s everyday lives. From entertainment, political, financial and to actually competing in them. The task for the sportsmen or women, especially in the top rank, is to beat the other competitors and get a good result from it. Here there is a high amount of pressure on many athletes coming from the media, coaches, themselves etc. They have the wanting to do well and achieve their goals and aims so much that some of the athletes turn to performance enhancing drugs. Obviously training for competition is the main thing to do but using drugs is another helper to succeeding. So, to their way of thinking, doping does not seem like cheating it just seems like

Performance enhancing drugs could be fatal, and athletes who uses these drugs are cheaters and they are sending wrong messages to children. Lebron James were to come out to the public saying that he uses drugs to help him play basketball a little better than how he play now. Young adults that plays any kind of sport, that looks up to him will eventually think that it is okay for them to use an performance enhancing drug. Athlete's works very hard to get to where they at now. But, their behavior may not be good to children that looks up to them. The horrible side of athletes as in using steriods and the way they act off the field changes any parent mind about who their kids should be looking up to. After Mark McGuire admitted to setting the record for single season home runs in 1998 while on the steroid substitute androstenedione, sales increased 1,000 percent, according to "USA Today."(Cesar Brioso and Bob Kimball 2010 ) Steroid and other drug use by athletes sends the message to children and some young adults that cheating is okay when you're trying to become the

Athletes, whether they are young or old, professional or amateur, are always looking to gain an advantage over their opponents to come away with the win. The desire for an "edge" exists in all sports, at all levels of play, from peewee wrestling to professional football. Successful athletes rely on skill, practice, and hard work to increase their skills, speed, power, and ability. Today, high school and even middle school students are using steroids illegally. The United Institute of Health reported that 2.9% of twelve graders in high school have used anabolic steroids(Drugs In Sports, 2) These drugs may also have been called: roids, juice, gym candy, pumpers, stackers, balls or bulls, arnies, or anabolics(Anabolic Steroids, 1). Also most

     Jose Canseco claims steroids can make an average athlete a super athlete, and make a super athlete incredible. With that statement said, it not only compels pro athletes to use steroids, but teenagers as well. In 2002, NIDA funded a study that asked teen athletes if they ever tried steroids. The study confirmed that 2.5% of 8th graders used it; about 3.5% of 10th graders; and 4% of 12th graders admitted using steroids. The percentage of teens using steroids is on the rise every year and I believe something needs to be done to prevent it from even getting higher.

“No one can say that the threat of steroids and other APEDs (appearance and performance enhancing drugs) is overstated. Experts agree that over 1.5 million students – as much as 6% of all U.S. high school and middle school students – have admitted to knowingly using anabolic steroids. These numbers do not include people that are unknowingly ingesting these drugs via unregulated dietary supplements that are spiked with these

In today’s sports world, performance enhancing drugs have become more and more of a problem. Famous athletes with records upon records do not always play by the rules. Celebrities with countless amounts of fans and admires turn out to be nothing but a cheater. These athletes are paid millions of dollars to simply perform, entertain, and follow the rules of their respected sport. Performance enhancing drugs (PED’s) have changed the way we look at athletes and their legacies.

In this Era of competitive high school sports, the lack of drug testing has high school athletes. Doing anything to rise to the top and achieve money, fame, and championships. And what they do is questionable to every parent and student fanbase; may be they train hard or eat a healthy diet, some of that may be true. But performance enhancing drugs plays a big factor in a high school athlete’s development. There are a lot of performance enhancing drugs being used, but there isn’t a performance enhancing drug that affect the body physically and mentally, such as anabolic steroid. At first used by professional athletes to performance at the peak potential, to being caught in the process and facing serious consequences, is now being used by high school athletes it has become a serious problem. But drug testing should be given to high school because it poses a health risk, give an unfair advantage to the performance enhancing drug user, it could prevent high school athletes from being faced

Next, many children and teenagers often look up to professional athletes as role models. For many high school athletes, professional athletes are major influences. High school athletes choose the jersey numbers of their favorite professional players. They emulate their training regimens. They imitate their style of play, and they are influenced by their drug use. Young athletes often believe that steroid use by their role models gives them permission to use. If a young athlete, who is easily influenced, sees his role model attaining success through the use of performance-enhancing drugs, he's going to perceive that as the only way to attain success. “Among students in grades 8 through 12 who admitted to using anabolic steroids in a confidential

Steroids may not be as big of a deal if it weren’t for the fact that teens often take part in the use of them. According to Dr. Kristie Long, most of the time teens are influenced by the number of big name athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs. Use by teens has been declining recently which is a very positive thing but it is always happening. Teens take steroids for reasons that differ greatly from any other drug use. Steroids can be known to boost confidence and strength, leading many to ignore the long-term effects. Ultimately, this is what causes the major concerns for teens using these dangerous drugs, especially when a lot of times their bodies are not fully developed. (Bjornlund 21-22)

About 67000 teens use these fitness enhancing drugs for sports to improve their bodies abilities. That is more than 7 percent of students worldwide. I don’t think teens should be doing this. This is unfair to other players and competitors. But most of all it is bad for their bodies. Too much of these drugs could seriously harm their body

Steroids are a growing problem in professional sports. Athletes use steroids to build lean muscle mass, promote aggressiveness, and increase body weight. Some athletes take two or more anabolic steroids together, mixing oral and injectable types (Anabolic Sports). Major League Baseball has the most cases of steroid, or PED (performance enhancing drugs), suspensions. There have been dozens of suspensions over the years by the MLB by taking daily drug tests. A program has been developed for both male and female sports teams (ATLAS for guys and ATHENA for girls) to teach the dangers of drugs and steroids. Teenage girls use steroids to improve or change their body types. In 2005, 4% of high school students tried steroids; in 2012, only 1.8% of teens experimented with steroids (11 Facts). Some baseball fans do not like the fact that the MLB banned PEDs because it takes the excitement away from the game. My opinion of PEDs is watching men who abide by the rules of the game play baseball the way it was meant to be played. I don’t

In the past few years the usage of performance enhancing drug and even illicit drugs used by athletes has increased dramatically. The idea of using drugs to gain an edge on your opponent has eventually found its way into high school sports. With the usage of drugs being brought into high school sports, mandatory drug testing should be supported by all schools across the country. High school students may take PED’s because they see athletes at the highest level of competitions using them and succeeding to a high extent at the highest college and professional sports levels, there are mandatory drug test taken by every individual player before the season is started. High school athletes are able to get away with using drugs during their sports season because there is no mandatory drug test that are taken. The drug test is a necessity to keep the playing field even and fair and also to keep the student athletes healthy. Mandatory drug test would be beneficial to the athletes.

Many athletic teens are very dedicated to their sport and it could lead them to taking performance-enhancing drugs so it can improve their strength in that sport. Although high schools take cautious measure by having them get drug tested, it does not change their minds from taking drugs. Instead, it makes teens understand that they can’t use drugs near drug test dates. A supplement that works like a steroid is creatine, which helps one gain more energy, muscles, and train longer. About 74 percent of the teens taking creatine (Dreyfuss 1) could experience the side effects of major weight gain, nausea, muscle cramps, or kidney damage ("Performance-enhancing Drugs and Teen Athletes” 1). This supports my argument because it indicates that there is a large amount of teens most likely to be playing a sport in high school that uses performance-enhancing drugs to