Steroids In Organized Sports

Anabolic Steroids are taken by athletes to increase muscle mass while decreasing fat rapidly and efficiently. They can push the physiological limits of the muscle, making it bigger, faster and stronger than it can get naturally. Steroids achieve this affect on the body by enhancing the natural process of muscle building. The use of steroids has had a negative impact on the lives and careers of many athletes, causing suspensions, bans, and even the loss of medals and other awards and records earned in international events. A few of the high profile athletes whose lives and careers by their anabolic steroid use include: Barry Bonds, Lyle Alzada, Jose Canseco, Ben Johnson, Chris Benoit, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, Alex Rodriguez and Lance Armstrong.

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.

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.

Infertility, tendon rupture, increased blood pressure, heart attack, tumors, cancer, aggression, and severe acne; these are just some of the side effects of using anabolic steroids (“Anabolic steroid abuse”). Why would an athlete risk all of these serious side effects just to hit a baseball a little farther or to gain muscle mass to be superior against their opponents in football? Most people know who big-name athletes like Jose Canseco, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Lance Armstrong are; and admire them. Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs in just one season. Lance Armstrong won seven “Tour de France” titles in his career; both being doped up on steroids while doing so. Could they

Anabolic steroids are a complex molecule used to trick the mind into thinking that testosterone is being produced. An American doctor in the 1930s developed anabolic steroids for the use of “building body tissue and preventing the breakdown of tissue” (“Athletes and Steroids”). An FDA review later failed to find evidence that these anabolic steroids had positive effects for those purposes. As time went on people found that steroids increase muscle mass significantly, and they began to abuse that power. Many athletes began to join in, creating a dilemma not only for their health issues but for the game itself. Many athletes have broken records, won awards, and achieved goals they would not have achieved if they didn 't

Most athletes who use anabolic steroid grow faster and develop better. The anabolic steroids help in building their body. People look at these people as their role model because of their prowess in sports such as wrestling and athletes. The athletes are using unacceptable supplements that are prohibited steroids to increase their public image. The athletes and wrestlers enjoy commercial advertisement. Morally, it is wrong to use these steroids to influence and accumulate wealth through unfair methods.

Most athletes who take steroids do so in a bid to push the performance competitive advantage ahead of their opponents continued usage of steroids results. Scandals involving steroid use by sports figures are frequent athletes appear willing to risk their health employment, and freedom to gain an “edge” on the competition. Such risk is not surprising given the large financial rewards often involved. The use of performance enhancing drugs is typically covert, thus well-done research showing the effects of anabolic steroids on athletes is rare. Yet testosterone treatment increases muscle, strength, body size and healing rate. These benefits however, are associated with many short-term and long terms risks.

Steroid is a name given to drugs that are manufactured from testosterone, a reproductive hormone found in men. Some athletes normally use anabolic steroids because these drugs improve one’s capacity to compete and train, yielding high results. Steroids work by reducing exhaustion during training, and also reduce the length of time an athlete needs to recover from exhaustion. In addition, steroids enable the growth of tissues and muscles in an athlete’s body by instructing the body to produce extra proteins. During the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, the first rumors of athletes using steroids emerged. The problem of athletes using steroids was again reported in 1954 during weight lifting championships. The Soviet athletes recorded a very

For years, anabolic steroids have been used by competitive athletes have used to improve performance through muscular size or strength, and by noncompetitive weight trainers for purely cosmetic physique enhancement. In the vast majority of cases, users of that have taken steroids for prolonged periods have reported considerable gains in physical size and strength. However, a large number of side effects and health risks have been linked to extended use of anabolic steroids. Research has indicated that the negative effects of steroid use far outweigh the positive effects. As a result, anabolic steroids are now illegal to use for performance enhancement in professional and competitive sports.

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.

Many patients suffering from muscle-wasting disease, AIDS, and hormone deficiencies benefit from using anabolic steroids. Corticosteroids relieve pain for many patients with arthritis and chronic skins disorders. Medical studies suggest that the risk factors associated with therapeutic steroid application are controversial and require more study. (Quezziare & Sprague, 2015)” Athletes must understand that whether the steroids are use therapeutically or illegally, health risk do exist. “Despite well documented evidence that steroid abuse is dangerous, athletes are willing to risk their bodies, and perhaps their lives, for a competitive edge.” One may argue that athletes do not care what they risk as long as they are the best athlete. “Younger athletes are now testing for steroids and haven taken them to promote growth and enhance performance. (Quezziare & Sprague, 2015)” One may argue that young athletes are using steroids is because they are looking at the older athletes as their role models and they feel the need to do the same as them. “Sports organizations have developed sophisticated drug-testing techniques to catch cheaters, but just as the testing becomes more sophisticated, so do the drugs they test for (Quezziare & Sprague, 2015).” Some may state that they do not know why athletes feel the need to use steroids and why do they think that steroids are the answers in making them the best. Wanting to be the best comes with hard work and dedication and “it seems likely that anabolic that steroid use will remain a controversy throughout the twenty-first century.” The examples that have been used are pure stated facts, as to why steroids can lead to short-term success, lead to ill health, and

The great states of the world hold and encounter sports and the athletes in each sport everyday. Is the use of illegal drugs in sports becoming a problem? In recent search and study by Britain's journal of sports medicine the research show that using illegal drugs in sports can cause serious issues for the player and how it affects the body mentally and physically. Players in the professional world will continue to idalise the use of illegal drugs or will they make a change and will the pros take a stand in the use of steroids. Steroids can affect the body in many different ways. The body reacts to steroids as a sign of improvement and it interacts with the muscle tone and the way the mind is affected buy it. The point is, using illegal drugs

In the past three decades, steroids has been becoming a serious problem more than ever in the athletic field. Steroids are anabolic drug "to build" growth hormones that include the androgens (male sex hormones) principally testosterone and estrogen and progestogens (female sex hormones). Steroids were first developed for medical purposes. They're used in controlling inflammation, strengthening weakened hearts, preventing conception, and alleviating symptoms of arthritis and asthma. Unfortunately research has shown that steroids have been abused in almost every kind of sport. Although steroids contribute to a muscular body, usage should remain illegal because they physically deteriorate and mentally destroy the body.

In today’s society, athletes are revered as heroes. There is immense pressure to be the best. Athletes are willing to do whatever it takes to gain an edge, even if it means compromising their health. For almost three decades, athletes have been supplementing their strength program with anabolic steroids to enhance their performance. To be sure, anabolic steroids are effective supplements to strength training programs, but there is no doubt that the consequences can be deleterious.

In today’s society in athletics, muscle mass and strength seem more important than in years past. It is believed that many athletes use anabolic steroids to increase their muscle mass and also their strength. Anabolic steroids are a group of synthetic hormones that promote the storage of proteins and the growth of tissue, sometimes used by athletes to increase muscle size and strength. Before the mid 1970’s the use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) was used mainly by highly trained athletes especially those involved in weight training. Since then other athletes including those involved in recreational sports and non-competitive sports have started using the steroids. Steroids are also being used by many school age children