The Use Of Steroids In Professional Sports

“Commentators claim that performance-enhancing drugs are not right or wrong, simply another strategy to improve performance” (Introduction to Performance-Enhancing Drugs). There are two main problems wrong with the use of drugs being legal. Health of athletes would drop devastatingly, and the true competition would become who gets lucky. “Some mourn the loss of yesterday's baseball heroes, while others argue that sport figures who use performance-enhancing drugs expose flaws in American culture” (Introduction to Performance-Enhancing

Steroids not only affect the body but also the mind too. It is proven that when an athlete takes steroids they tend to be more of an aggressive person in society’s eyes. The advantage of having an aggressive behavior is that the abuser is more focused and trains more intensely. The bad part about taking steroids is that the person becomes easily irritated and impatient. Even after an athlete stops using steroids they seem to develop depression because they experience withdraw symptoms. It is against federal law to use steroids without a prescription. Professional athletes usually do not think about how much trouble steroids can give them. In 1990, President George W. Bush signed a bill to put steroids in the category of methamphetamines, opium and morphine. If someone would get caught using steroids they could be punished up to one year in prison, a twenty thousand dollar fine, and a year of drug classes (New Law…).

Over a few decades, Steroids have been a part of baseball. The world around us involves cheating to get or look good. Athletes are doing the same thing by injecting or swallowing a drug that is not a part of their regular lifestyle. The Salem witch trials is about a group of girls in Salem that were caught dancing in the woods. They were accused of doing witchcraft but blamed other people in the village and said they were controlling them to do devilish things.

Second Timothy 4:1 says, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” Situations in almost every sport have seen defining moments that have the potential to set a precedent for future athletes. Steroids in baseball was a defining moment in the sport. If the original occurrence had been handled with a league ban the issue probably would have been curbed and the sport would not have seen so many athletes using banned substances. The same could be said for violent acts committed by athletes outside of the game.

They’re among the world’s most controversial drugs. Not Heroin, Ganja, Coke or Crystal Meth, but Anabolic Steroids. Steroids are medical treatments that come in two varieties: Anabolic Steroids and Corticosteroids. These are both synthetic versions of hormones produced naturally in the body but they perform two completely different tasks. Corticosteroids are used by doctors to decrease inflammation. Anabolic Steroids are the familiar term for the synthetic version of the male sex hormone testosterone. Its technical name although, is Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids (AAS). “Anabolic referring to muscle-building and Androgenic referred to increased male sexual characteristics,” defined by the National

Steroids in sports has been one of the biggest controversial topics since 1904 when Olympic marathon runner, Thomas Hicks, used a mixture of brandy and strychnine and nearly died. However, the use of PED’s (performance enhancing drugs) dates all the back to 776 BC with the Ancient Greek athletes. In sports todays the question is whether or not these types of drugs should be banned from competition.

The issue of steroid use in professional baseball is a serious problem. Steroids were used by some players to improve their performance. This is an unfair advantage for them against other players that did not use these drugs. Even if their performance got better and improved their career, these drugs can cause bad effects on your health. Since it is not legal to use steroids, a lot of players that used them did it secretly. Since these players had regular seasons and careers, but then changed in their performance and how they looked, people became suspicious.

Every athlete has wished they could jump a little higher, swim a little longer and run a little faster. Throughout the history of sport there have been accounts of chemical enhancements taken by athletes to give them this advantage. This has developed more as time has taken its grasp on modern medicinal practices. People try to obey the laws of a pure sport, yet there seems to be an increasing margin of those who “dope” and get away with it and the small group those that does not, how does this still happen? Is the solution to just allow doping? While with so much speculation and ethically derivative rhetoric to be examined, doping to increase strength in a sport is explicitly wrong to the sport itself. Chemical enhancements discredit the integrity

The most commonly discussed issue in sports of the 21st century is the use of performance enhancing drugs by professional athletes. Over the past four years, it has been nearly impossible to turn on the television without hearing something about athletes and these drugs. From former National League MVP Third Baseman Ken Caminiti's admission of steroid use in an issue of Sports Illustrated (Verducci, 2004) to 2006 Tour de France Champion Floyd Landis being stripped of title due to a failed doping test (Blue, 2006) virtually every sport is involved. Are performance enhancing drugs a substance that threatens the very existence of professional sports, or are they the future? Perhaps the issue

With the ever increasing difficulty of “making it” in professional sports, many athletes look for a way to get ahead of the competition and they find this “power up” in steroids. Whether it be to hit a baseball farther, tackle an opponent harder or run faster, there really isn't a right or wrong answer to why athletes feel the need to take performance enhancing drugs. However, with an increasing danger to the physiological state of these athletes , steroids are becoming in many peoples minds too dangerous to take.. The real question is if these types of performance enhancing drug should be allowed in athletic competition.

Do you want to want to become the peak athlete that you know your body is capable of? Well, this paper will not do that for you, but it will tell you how, and it will tell you why it should be legal to do so. Doping in sports is one of the most extensive debates within the realm of athletics. Whether it be injecting anabolic steroids, consuming them, or blood doping, athletes will do drugs. Doping has no effect on the viewership of the sport. Athletes can always find ways to cheat the system, and trying to prevent the use seems impossible. The use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be legalized, as long as it is allowed under medical supervision.

Performance-enhancing drugs (PED 's) have been an issue for many decades now for the medical and sports field. Olympic and professional athletes have been using them to gain an upper hand on the competition, but some may ask if it 's really worth it? Studies show that performance-enhancing drugs have been proven to negatively affect the health of athletes who take them. Simply put, performance-enhancing drugs could either improve athletic performance or can be extremely dangerous, in certain situations, deadly. There have been strict rules and drug testing in the professional sporting organizations, as well as in world competitions. For example, in the summer of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, in two of the

I think that doping is a bad way to enhance one’s abilities in athletics because it is basically cheating. Unless that you are proven to have a serious medical condition and that you have to take a steroid for that reason only, not to compete, then it is fine to use. David Millar learned the hard way when he was doping in cyclist races. He didn’t care whether people thought he doped or not because all he wanted was to win in professional races. In order to get successive results, he doped, but his consequences were dire because the steroids suppressed his immune system making his body vulnerable to infections. On top of that, the amount of stress on his body was massive resulting with bronchitis after his second place victory. I think he learned

Athletes are in the public eye and their actions can affect those whom they portray as role models. Therefore, the use of performance-enhancing drugs should be banned and athletes who continue to use it should face severe punishments. Doping is a very controversial issue that started in a range between 776 to 393 BC during the original Olympic games. Since then, many athletes have had to return their medals and face their consequences. Because society had become accustomed to athletes using steroids and performance-enhancing drugs, the athletes that are caught are the only ones that are hated, yet not the ones who take it, but are not caught. These drugs provide an unfair advantage to the user, affect other people from youngsters to coaches

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.