Why The Steroids Should Be Banned

Performance-Enhancing drugs are an unnatural way of changing one's body, and the effects can be life altering, sometimes better yet always, in the end, much worse. It is for this reason why major league sports have put strict rules in place suspending athletes who use these drugs; the Olympics ban these athletes for life. These drugs harm the bodies and minds of athletes, and they are banned to protect their health for their benefit and for the sports as well.

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

First of all the side effects are horrible, and you will have to live with them the rest of your life. Second, you will have the regret of taking PEDs, and setting a bad example to children around the world who look up to you. And you could be the reason that a teenage athlete dying because of drugs. Third, you could kill yourself, the ones you love, the opponent, or an innocent citizen that you happen to come across when you are taking out your anger. And you can get depressed, or go insane. PEDs should be ban from all professional sports, because they, have horrible side effects that can’t always be fixed, they set a bad example for children, and they can hurt many people including yourself, or make you go insane or get

The Intelligence Square U.S. held a debate about whether or not the government’s rules on performance enhancing drugs should be ban in professional sports. For the debate they had Radley Balko, Investigative Journalist, Norman Fost, Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, and Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford argue for the motion. They argue the fact that the medicines we take on a daily basis from the pharmacy are also performance enhancers. This goes back all the way to the Romans who once used herbs to improve themselves for battle, making them believe that the only exception that separates this from steroids is that it is illegal. On the other hand, you have

The use of steroids in sports has been a very common argument for so long because there has been arguments that it enhances performance. Why you should not use steroids! Steroids make you have mood swings and can damage your physical appearance. The more steroids you take has a bigger effect on your body. steroids should not be allowed because they cause health risk, behavior issues/mood swings,and they affect the brain.

The harmful physical and mental health effects that coincide with the usage of performance enhancing drugs explain why PEDs should stay out of the hands

The use of Performance Enhancing Drugs(PED) has a major impact on athletes negatively and cause many problems in sports and competitions. These PEDs should be banned for athletes and competitors on any level because they are, unhealthy and harmful to the body, give users an edge over competitors, and it diminishes the true sportsmanship of the game itself.

Baseball is one of my favorite sports and the fact is that it is so thrilling that when you hit the ball you get a huge adrenaline rush so you run as fast as you can to the base. But later on steroids were introduced to baseball; there were so many athletes that ended up using the Performance Enhancing Drugs or (PEDs) but when people were seeing the hits they did not just go into the field, there were more home runs than the normal record there were in a season. When it first used people didn’t know how people were hitting so many home runs, but it made the game more interesting and people loved it and when people found out it that what the players were doing was basically cheating, some people thought it was okay because it made it more interesting, but there were some people who were unhappy with the players who were cheating.

Steroids have been around the athletic programs for years and the most testing has come out to spot this type of cheating in order to make playing sports fair. Society has become very lazy over the years and building up hard work has been taking for granted and a lot of people these days spend more time trying to cheat than making the effort to stay steady at the gym and achieve perfection correctly. Effects on steroids come with the good and bad just like everything that is added to the body. When athlete’s get caught use these types of drugs there are some very heavy penalties that can cause an athlete the entire season and if a player misses a season in any sports that experience lost as well as a career tainted by a cheating scandal. “David Howman, the director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, said they were confident of U.S. government cooperation, based on past experience, including the BALCO doping case (Patrick).” The BALCO scandal was one of the biggest bust in sports that brought down huge athletes names like Barry Bond, Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens and Adrian Beltre. These athletes are and were the best in the sport at their prime, which raised question did the steroids play a major part in their success. A lot of these athletes played the Major Baseball League and it has led this twentieth century of that sports to be called the steroid era. Steroids can make a person get extremely big or build

The competition in professional sports can be very tough. Only the top athletes who are not only genetically gifted, but also hard-working are able to compete in the top athletic competition. Mediocre is just not good enough. It is no surprise that many young athletes choose to use steroids to give them the athletic advantage against their competition. Anabolic steroids consist of the hormone testosterone that aids in muscle building and strength (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2018).

The severity of drug abuse should not be taken lightly. The use of performance enhancing drugs in competitive sports should definitely be illegal. Doping is using something that is above

Coercion limits freedom by manipulating a person into believing that he/she cannot refuse a choice they were offered (i.e has no other option but to make the choice imposed onto them by a manipulator), by means of societal pressure. In sports, many athletes feel compelled to take performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) like steroids. The use of PEDs is strictly illegal in professional sports, but many athletes use PEDs hoping to give themselves an advantage over their competition; and in the world of professional sports, the difference of a fraction of a second can be the difference in first and second place, setting a world record or not, and/or earning millions of dollars. The incentives to use PEDs in professional sports are especially high considering that

Barry Bonds, Mark Mcgwire and Sammy Sosa, some of MLB’s biggests stars, are players who have used Performance enhancing drugs like steroids (Auerbach). Athletes wanting to get an advantage on others started to use drugs like steroids. These enhancing drugs should not be allowed in sports. The drugs have bad side effects, and also gives athletes an unfair advantage.

Professional athletes are role models to the younger generation. Younger athletes look up to the professionals as motivation and inspiration. They pick styles and even numbers to reflect who they are inspired by. This can be seen when a basketball player wears 23. The number 23 represents one of the greatest basketball players of all time Michael Jordan. I believe steroids should be banned from professional sports because they give the younger generation the wrong message. Young high schoolers that are athletes will see the open usage of steroids and start to use them themselves. As Greg Schwab said in the hearing for "Steroid Use in Professional Baseball and Anti-Doping Issues in Amateur Sports" and before the US Senate Committee on Commerce,

In March of 2011, Jon Jones became the youngest champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) history. He is arguably the greatest mix-marital artist the UFC has ever seen with a record of twenty-one wins and one loss. Although Jones has achieved a large amount of success while fighting in the UFC, he is no stranger to scandal. Throughout the course of his career, Jones has been in and out of trouble with the UFC and the law due to his drug use. Colliding into a pregnant woman’s vehicle and leaving the scene while under the influence is just one of many incidents. After being stripped of his UFC Light Heavyweight championship title, Jones was sent to eight-teen months in prison for the hit and run. Finally getting out of prison Jones