Steroid Bans

Steroids are very bad for your body. Too often, students think that steroids are good for your body. Well, they were wrong. Steroids are very, very bad for your body. According to Muhammad an estimated 4.9% of males and 2.4 % of females in U.S. High Schools have used steroids. That’s 375,000 males and 175,000 females. That’s a combined 550,000 estimated students that have used steroids. What’s causing so many teens to use steroids? A lot of teens say that they use it because they want to improve performance in sports and to ‘’look’’ more muscular. Another source says that an estimated 340,000 students in Miami - Dade Public Schools have used PED’S or Performance Enhanced Drug’s. (Pannoni) Imagine that! That’s only one school district! Now add up every other school

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

When taking steroids, or other types of PED’s they end up become unhealthy. They become unhealthy because PED’s grow the muscle tissue, but not the tendons, consequently making them more prone to tearing. Also, the body might experience bad acne, infections such as HIV, inhibited growth problems, and heart and circulatory problems. Steroids also display a lack of sportsmanship. When an athlete takes steroids they’re ultimately trying to get a competitive edge over other opponents, which nevertheless, gets rid of the whole competitive part of

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.

Have you ever wondered why NFL players aren’t always caught with performance enhancing drugs (peds)? NFL players and NBL players are only tested once every couple months for peds, and that gives the players time to get the peds out of their body. Players have made it through the tests while still using peds but caught the next time. The tests are not very strict. The tests need to be stricter because some professional athletes have made it through the test while using them and other have not; although they were using doctor prescribed peds. The three reasons that ped tests need to be stricter are that it can cause health risks, long term effects and for other players to get suspended even though they were doing the

In the world of competitive sports, athletes are always looking for an edge over their opponent. Being the best of the best is ultimately the goal of an athlete. There are many instances known to man where an athlete will do anything to win. Traditionally anabolic steroids, give athletes that edge over their opponent giving them peak performance. Banning anabolic steroids in pro sports doesn’t allow athletes maximum muscle growth, focus, or peak performance.

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.

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.

In society today, winning is considered everything. Man is always trying to beat their opponent no matter what it takes. Some athletes are willing to do anything that could potentially be life threatening in order to get their 15 seconds of fame. This “something” is known as anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids have come to improve many athletes physical activity, but also ruin an immense amount of lives forever. Although it may give someone the power to feel good, be stronger, and build up more muscle, the negative effects strongly outweigh the positives. All athletes dream big. They have the desire to stand on the podium with a gold metal, receive an athletic award, or win the world championships. Sometimes the desire to achieve gets so high

As spectators, we push athletes to their absolute best, where doping is needed to reach those heights (Steadman). Everyone wants to see the best competitor. Eventually, natural athletes will reach a wall. Then there comes the question of how to keep sports interesting (Steadman). The PEDs would increase playing competition and allow athletes to reach those heights to entertain us at a great level (Hoffman). The people are complicit in turning the sport into an entertainment industry in which winning is everything (Cashmore). Everyone wants to be a winner. Steroids improve the effects of training, allowing them to produce more effective training (Steadman). The Anabolic Steroid, Androgen, is used as a lower dosage. But is shows that muscular strength could be improved by five to twenty percent (Savulescu and others). During the steroid era, 5693 home runs were hit. This could be reproduced in the future if PEDs are legalized (Hoffman). “Baseball should sponsor the use of steroids.” (Uni Wire) In 1992, Nicky Rabinowicz found out that Olympic athletes, in general, believed most successful athletes were using banned substances (Savulescu and others). This is a third reason why PEDS should be legalized in sports.

In a recent study conducted by Jay Hoffman from 2005 to 2006, he surveyed 8th through 12th grade students on how teens mimic professional athletes who use steroids. The survey involved more than 3,200 students in 12 states, most of them from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico. Other states included Iowa, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Missouri, Ohio, Colorado, New York, Minnesota and California. In the overall study 1.6 percent of the students, which is roughly 50 children, mostly boys, reported using some form of anabolic steroids regularly. Of that, 57 percent of kids that reported using steroids said that they were influenced by professional athletes. Also out of the children in that study, 65 percent of current users and 6 percent of non-users said that they would take it as long as long as the results were guaranteed despite the health side effects. Also, 57 percent of the current users and 4 percent of the non-users said they would take it even though they knew it shortened your lifespan. In that study, 6 percent of the children were in the 12th grade. The study also looked at the children that were on already on supplements that help promote muscle growth and tone, and 17 percent of children reported that they would use some form of steroids to gain muscle. The study also looked at children that want to gain lean muscle that

Almost every week, there is a new report of a major athlete getting caught for PED use. Throughout the history of sports, many athletes have tried gain an advantage on their competition. When done correctly, athletes improve their performance through rigorous training and hard work. As the years have progressed, athletes believe that they need an unfair advantage to succeed in a particular sport. This is what has caused the uprise in PED use. Steroids have been linked to most of the PED use in sports. Steroids are commonly known to cut body fat and increase a person's body tissue; however, they are terrible for your body. Steroids affect many parts of the human body. Most users only look at the near present when using steroids, but over time they can have a serious affect on the way a person lives. Jerry Adler, author of “Toxic Strength”, believes that “Steroids can have long-lasting and sometimes irreversible side effects on the body.” This is especially dangerous in teen users. Some programs around the world have high expectations, and sometimes athletes will turn to steroids to gain an edge in a certain sport. But the effects can be far-reaching and detrimental to a young athlete (“Global

     Steroid use by professional players is tarnishing pro sports, as well as high school sports. If a high school athlete was juiced (taking steroids), there would be an incredible disadvantage to those who aren’t. Don’t get me wrong, there is a disadvantage to those in pro sports too, but many pro athlete’s bodies are more developed and can build and obtain more muscle mass than a 16 year old.

The argument is that they truly make the playing field level, by allowing all athletes to achieve the same unnatural potential. This is simply untrue because of their definition of an unnatural potential. While using performance enhancing drugs, athletes have no real limit as of what they can do with their bodies. The steroids will create a wide array of different athletes that perform aton different levels, making the playing field most certainly uneven. Another popular argument is that if steroids in organized sports were legalized, that everyone would take them and they would be better regulated. Though the regulation may make things be better, some athletes will still not take anabolics. This may be due to moral, ethnic, or even religious beliefs, but nonetheless many athletes not taking the drugs will cause the athletes who are using steroids to gain an unfair athletic advantage in a competitive setting. “Ultimately, this is a question about values. I think people are really struggling with it,” (Dudley 38). Athletes also may not advocate the use of steroids for themselves due to their risk factor for health. Steroids can cause small side effects such as breast tissue development in men, or much higher risks such as heart attacks and liver cancer. Once again, the risk outweighs the reward, making the use of steroids throughout a whole sport very unlikely. This

Thirdly, many serious side effects and health risks are involved with using PEDs. The benefits of these drugs are really not worth the risks. ‘It is already known that steroids cause liver damage, heart attacks and strokes.’ (Mirkin, 2007) What’s worse, these drugs harm not only the athletes themselves but also harm their children. Mirkin (2007) said that, through a study on the children of the athletes who use PEDs, ‘more than 25 percent had