Steroid Use for College & Pro Athletes 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. …show more content…
Alex Rodriguez, Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, and Ben Johnson are just a few of the many athletes who took a type of steroids during their record-breaking moments. Since steroid use is illegal to all athletes today, players talents and strength must be natural. This is in many ways a great law. Keeping everyone on the same playing field is very important considering these sports are these players income. In college sports the ruling on all of this varies. Yes of course steroids are still banned to these young athletes but how strict the universities take it varies dramatically. Most lower level NCAA programs like Division 3 and Division 2 tend to not test near as often or some seasons even at all. This comes to be a thing because frankly at this level no body cares. Now the skill level is obviously dramatically different from a non-testing Division 2 program and a testing Division 1 program so ultimately it does not matter. But still many times weather it is a the Division 1, 2, or 3 level you will find a strict testing team versus a not so strict testing team. Now there are rules to all this and a university can’t just not test their players if they don’t feel it is necessary. But the problem is the rules vary so widely that there are loopholes and other ways for coaches and players to get by these rules. This is much more challenging for a popular Division 1 school compared to a not so known Division 2 or Division 3 school. This is the case for
Many children all across the United States and other countries try to replicate their favorite superstar athlete. Many athletes become the children’s idol and once the child learns that the athlete has cheated the game the athlete plays the child no longer looks up to the athlete. It is almost gotten to the point where no athlete that excels in a particular sport can be trusted. Every time a single athlete becomes great at their respective sport, speculation of steroid abuse immediately follows.
Steroids are used for sports, or any sort of body building. Athletes use steroids because they believe it gives them a more competitive edge on other athletes. They do not fear the consequences of what could happen to their body. Athletes only think of the upside to what they are getting. Some examples of athletes that have used steroids are Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and Lance Armstrong, to name a few. Many people speculated Barry Bonds taking PED’s, but when he was tested ,there was nothing found. Then the idea of undetectable steroids came up. “When told that he has never failed a steroid test, as others have failed, they argue that some steroids are undetectable.”( Coleman,18). Steroids may have lifted Barry’s career, but there will always be a dent in his
With steroids being available to all athletes, it is then abused by college athletes causing it to jeopardize their career. College athletes see in the news that a certain Major-League Baseball player has used steroids which then
Growing up, I looked up to guys like Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds. They were some of the best players to ever play the game. In the recent years, it was revealed that these players were taking anabolic steroids throughout their career. I always thought with hard work and dedication, I could be just like them, but that was not possible because they were all cheating to get an edge. Anabolic steroids were added to the list of Class III Substances in the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990. This act makes it illegal to possess anabolic steroids in the United States without a prescription. Congress passed this in hope to avoid the use of anabolic steroids in sports. However, the majority of steroid users are in fact
The main belief among young athletes is that by using drugs (especially performance-enhancing drugs), they will gain a competitive advantage among the competition. However, no matter the purpose, taking steroids or other drugs not prescribed by a physician is illegal and needs to be closely monitored at all levels of athletics. Some people might believe that mandatory drug testing would cause turmoil
Anabolic steroid use is illegal and banned by professional sports organizations and medical associations. In spite of this, some athletes continue to take steroids because they think it gives them a competitive advantage. As seen in the high-profile cases, if an athlete is caught using steroids, his or her career can be destroyed. And there are serious health consequences.
The athletes taking steroids need to be castigated. Maybe they should even be ostracized from the sport they are competing in. Steroids need to be made an anathema in our world. They harm an athletes body, give them a huge upper hand over other athletes in there sport, and lead younger athletes to believe it is okay that they take steroids as well. I am a firm believer that all these reasons show that steroids should not be legal. Steroids need to be banned before it is to late and there is another heartbreaking story about a kid much like Taylor Hooton who made the mistake and fell into pressure. It could happen to anyone; We need to quit dithering before it is to late and ban steroids for
Athletes using performance enhancing drugs has been a problem since the late 1990’s. For the athletes the use of steroids are cheap, easy to access, and effective; that is until now. Collegiate Student Athletes should be drug tested every season for illegal substances before they are allowed to play. There are many reasons why these athletes should be tested, such as the negative effect steroids have on their bodies, the drugs are illegal to use, and if caught using these drugs the athletes careers could be over.
Imagine that you just won the Gold in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Now imagine the Gold getting Stripped from your hands by the officials of the Olympics. All because you decided to take steroids. Every year 45% of all Athletes take some sort of steroid or performance enhancing drug (Barnes). Many high school athletes take steroids for football or baseball. But some kids take steroids for weight lifting and that is all they take it for the do not even play sports. Both of these reasons are wrong morally and legally, but if there was one that was worse it would taking steroids for weight lifting. At least the people that take it for sports have a reason. Steroids may provide you a scholarship to college but it eventually show and
The problem with today’s society is that steroids are everywhere and companies are finding ways around the steroid label by producing drugs that contain the same ingredients but are labeled differently. Professional athletes are also becoming big icons for people and many athletes are using steroids to enhance their performance. Athletes are supposed to be role models and by getting involved in these kinds of things people see it as an ok thing to do. Steroids are common everywhere, baseball and football players are constantly finding ways to take these drugs. Pro wrestling
Professional sports are a competition between the greatest athletes in the world. And when I go to a game, that’s exactly what I expect to see. Sports are entertainment. There is no room for purity and respecting the limits that athletes had in the past. Modern athletes should utilize all the resources that they have available to them. This includes steroids, which enhance an athlete’s performance. After all, performance is what really matters.
With high-schoolers all across America striving for a chance at the Major Leagues, the risk of steroids seems minimal when you see the people you look up to using them.
Most people would sell their first born child for 300 million dollars so it's obvious that at those stakes athletes will use anabolics to be the best. What are some of the advantages of steroid use? Steroids can increase size, strength, speed, cardiovascular ability, and even help maintain or lose weight with the proper steroids. Some of the side effects of anabolic steroids range from the little things like balding which is genetically predetermined all the way up to liver damage if orals are taken instead of injectables. They can be extremely dangerous or your best friend if used properly. So let's ask the question why are steroids illegal? Most would say because they're dangerous and will kill you, but that couldn't be farther than the truth in 1990 when steroids were illegalized the FDA and the DEA both stated that steroids should not be legalized because there was no harmful side effects when taken properly with a doctor's supervision, but congress passed to illegalize it anyways on the precedence of one thing and only one thing. They stated steroids were cheating and gave an
Doping-administer drugs to a racehorse, greyhound, or athlete in order to inhibit or enhance sporting performance.Charles Edwards Brown invented the first ever dose of steroids.Charles Edward used chemicals,and his own sperm.Scientists still question why and how he did it,Edward Charles at the time he was 70 and he said “it made me feel 50 years younger”.
process. My health teacher was not the greatest of teachers, but I found it easy because she taught us with visuals, which made it easier to