Steroids In High School Athletes

Most athletes who use steroids take them for the purpose of muscle mass growth and strength. Steroids are not safe because there is no safe way to monitor steroid use. Long term effects use of steroids are unknown. In my personal opinion I do believe using steroids is cheating because you are not naturally getting this muscle growth and strength. It is not okay for non-professional or professional athletes to use steroid, like previously stated the long term effect that steroids can have on the human body are unknown. My thoughts on steroid usage in athletes are that I do not agree. I don't believe it is fair for the rest of teammates who work hard to naturally achieve what those who use steroid achieve.

Anabolic steroid abuse has become a national concern among high school athletes. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of athletes using these performance enhancing drugs in high school almost double the number using since the 1980's. These athletes feel that steroids gives them the competitive edge that they think they need to boost themselves past the competition.

A national survey stated that American teens use drug to perform better at athlete events; They also use drugs to improve their looks. Another confidential survey that was taken, in 2013, used 3,705 high school students. The survey’s results showed that possibly 11% of the students used synthetic HGH once at the minimum amount, and the amount of students taking steroids increases from 5% to 7% perecent while doing the survey. Drugs can be dangerous that’s why school officials and parents are worried. This drug issue might cause student athletes to get drug tested.

Unfortunately, it is not completely uncommon for athletes to test positive for steroids. Amazing, talented competitors like Barry Bonds, Marion Jones, and Lance Armstrong were all illegal users of steroids. They did as many things as they could to not get caught, but eventually they did. Imagine all of the die-hard fans that found out that their favorite athlete cheated through sports. Kids look up to athletes as role models and aspire to be like them one day, but the let down of discovering that an athlete wasn’t competing the way its body naturally could is devastating. Seeing all this success through the use of steroids could actually promote people to use it. This is an extremely bad idea because anabolic steroids ultimately lead to a path of physical and mental hopelessness. Anabolic steroids can be extremely harmful. If the body is already producing a proper amount of testosterone, there is no reason to be adding more. It is unhealthy for the body and results in abnormal effects. Acne, liver disorders, blood pressure increase, possible HIV, sexual diseases, atrophy, infertility, prostate enlargement, lower speaking voice, thinner hair, aggressive behavior, depression, and lower hormonal levels are just a few of the side effects as a result of taking steroids. None of these are positive, so why should athletes be using them if they have

College and Professional Sports have been a major entertainment for people all over the globe. Baseball, football, hockey, basketball, golf, and soccer are a few examples of the greatest sports of this decade. These sports and more have the greatest athletes in the world involved and they get the opportunity to showcase their skills and talents each year. They only get the chance to do these things if they can pass a drug test that involves not taking steroids. Many years ago athletes were not forced to take any type of drug test thus causing many players to take steroids. Steroids made many athletes dramatically better causing more and more players to use them so they could keep up with the rest.

In many different types of sports, steroids have been used by elite athletes such as Tyson Gay ( Olympic Runner) and Manny Ramirez ( baseball player)to enhance their physical performance. Steroids are used in many ways but mostly to increase muscle mass and strength. The hormone in males is testosterone which is an anabolic steroid. Testosterone has two different effects on your body, it has an “Anabolic” effect that contributes to muscle building and an “Androgenic” effect that is responsible for body hair, and a deeper voice.

High school athletes should be tested for performance enhancing drugs. Research has shown that performance enhancing drugs can lead to depression and may result in suicide. Performance enhancing drugs may also be linked to liver damage and premature closure of the growth center of long bones in adolescents. If we test for performance enhancing drugs in high school athletes we might be able to help them and even save their lives.

Before athletes started using steroids and other types of drugs. Athletes would put in a lot of work to become who they wanted to become. The dream of everything paying off in the end to become the best athlete as possible. But then something new was happening, using drugs to increase athletic performance. Steroids began to play a bigger role into sports back in the 2000’s. No longer were the most naturally gifted athletes becoming the stars. Now, its whoever uses steroids to become the best athlete. The amount of performance enhancing steroids has increased in professional sports, many athletes are gaining an unfair advantage over their competition.

A steroid used in the treatment of medical conditions usually involves the use of only one type of steroid and medical patients are closely monitored and the doses used are approximately that which would be produced naturally by the human body. In the case of steroid use in sports, people tend to take mega doses sometimes 10-100 times the dosage that would be administered for some medical conditions and often involving more than one type at a time. Most steroid users, and especially novice users, get their dosage instructions from the seller or from friends who take the drugs, more often without any questions as to the drugs effects, or correct dosages. Many steroids available on the black market are even of dubious quality and often only contain

High School, students are using drugs to show a clearer performance in numbers, with that teens hormones doubled through the past year. In 2013 3,705 students took a survey ( that was shown on Wednesday. Teen steroids moved up from 5 percent to 7 percent during that same era. This problem causes people to worry school officials including parents as well, which then would include drug

High school student are using drugs to become more popular. Many high school students each year have been taking drugs, and it has doubled ever since. 3,705 students have took a survey that questions if any of the have done drugs. At least 11 percent of the students have said that they have used it once into their lifetime especially during school. The surveys have said that students went from 5 to 7 percent have used steroids to become better at their game. The school and parents are worried about the after affect of using drugs which include, major injuries to the body or even death. So they have decided to check every single high school student to see if the have taken steroids or other drugs during school.

“We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids have put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.” (Lou Brock). Steroids in professional sports has became a major issue and has yet to be justified. Steroids boost the intensity of the game and provide the athletes with more agility and skill to play the game, but should it be fair to allow them? This would give some players an advantage in their sport over the players who reject the drugs. If drugs are illegal in the common world, then why should athletes be able to get away with performance enhancing drugs in sports. Should professional athletes be allowed to use these drugs without breaking the

Athletes use steroids in hope that they will help enhance their performance while growing muscle to look more appealing.Steroids are looked to by athletes who are willing to risk their health to simply cheat a workout while still gaining muscle. (Walker 17) With high school and collegiate sports, athletes must push their mind and body to the limit to achieve their goals which are set by coaches, parents and even peers. Though teens have some insight that steroids are dangerous, they only know the surface information about the risk of steroids. In today’s health classes, schools focus on sex education, STD, pregnancy and nothing about steroids. We must educate students more about these harmful drugs and show them what they can do to one's body and life. Once teens see how dangerous these drugs are, a decrease in user will surely occur because students will be scared to get involved with these

The use of PED’s is unscrupulous mainly because of two reasons. The first being that it is immoral and unfair. Athletes in this day and age make enough money from their multimillion dollar contracts to afford the best trainers, as well at practice facilities that money can buy. Also sports are not solely about winning. “It’s not about whether you win or lose, it’s how you played the game,” once meant something. Nowadays fair play seems to be a dying trade and playing with the advantage of PEDs isn’t right. The second reason as to why the uses of PEDs is not good is the health complications they can cause for the user. The use of steroids can have serious threats to the user’s health, including liver damage, crippled reproductive functions, tumors in the liver as well as kidneys, heart conditions, and even psychiatric symptoms. Steroid abuse can also disrupt the body’s production of hormones, causing both some reversible and permanent changes. Reversible changes include reduced sperm count as well as shrinking of the testicles. Some of the reversible changes include male-pattern baldness and even breast development in men. Steroid abuse has also been associated with cardiovascular diseases, including heart attacks and strokes, even in athletes younger than 30. Even with all of these threats to their health athletes

Study has shown that steroids don't just damage an athlete’s health, it contains many side effects towards themselves such as mood swings and uncontrollable rage. Blythe Bernhard from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says, “Steroid users are at increased risk for stroke, heart attack, and sudden death.” This shows that an athlete can enjoy winning a Superbowl ring or MVP award when he is young, but would suffer from sudden deaths such as a heart attack or stroke when he is older. Pro football players don’t think of major risks when taking steroids, and how they can affect their body as they continue increasing their dosages to get big. Richard Pound, a former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency states, “...athletes don’t take these drugs to level the playing field, they do it to get an advantage… The endgame will be an activity… practiced by a class of chemical and or genetic mutant gladiators.” Richard Pound is simply saying that if we legalize steroids in football, the end result will just be a violent, meaningless game played by modern gladiators. This shows that athletes taking steroids will not only be turned into modern warriors with incredible strength, it will completely turn the playing field uneven to athletes that don’t want to be a disgrace to football by taking steroids. Thomas H. Murray, a doctor of philosophy, addresses, “There are several reasons to ban performance enhancing drugs: respect for the rules of sports, recognition that natural talents and their perfection are the points of sports…” here, Thomas H. Murray is saying that the reason people are accepted to play for a football team, especially in the NFL, is because they are recognized of their talent and how they perform outstanding during games. The whole point of going big in sports is an athlete