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    Steroid Drug Benefits

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    olympic athlete that hears about steroids. Do the benefits outweigh the consequences though? “Because I tried everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.” - Jose Canseco. Sometimes people need the benefit to get ahead of competition. Drug testing started in 1968 by the International Olympic Committee. “Steroid drugs are a class of synthetic

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    Abuse of Steroids Steroids are synthetic materials of the male sex chromosome, testosterone, that lead to addiction, mental abuse and physical harm. They are banned by many sports leagues, but some athletes do not take that into consideration. Many athletes use steroids illegally, for a multiple of reasons. Athletes use steroids in order to gain better physical body shape and game play. In reality they are only cheating the game and themselves, slowly breaking their bodies down. The steroid use has

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    American Football" (encyclopedia.com). The sport started to rise and many people wanted to play or watch football. But the results that associated with playing the game is the players being tempted to use steroids. Steroids retain protein like the hormone testosterone to help build muscle, which is why football players are tempted in using them for faster results in gaining weight and muscle in short amounts of time. Throughout the history of football, steroid use in American football has plagued both

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    Steroids can also be an addiction. If you have been taking them for the past 8 weeks, assuming good diet and training, chances are that you became very big, strong and quick. You feel unstoppable after the 8 weeks of use. Suddenly you taper them off, up until you completely stop their use. After a few weeks you will feel depressed due to low testosterone levels and may have suicidal thoughts. According to Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse if left, untreated some depressive symptoms associated

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    drugs and substances. The NFL didn’t have steroid regulations until 1983 and didn’t suspend players until 1989. The MLB has had the most issues with steroids and performance-enhancers in comparison to other organizations. The MLB banned steroids in 1991, but drug tests didn’t start until 2003. For over a decade, most players could still get away with using banned PEDs. Many famous players like Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds have been accused of using steroids. The NBA hasn’t had as many issues with

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    Essay On Peds In Sports

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    Keep The Playing Field Even Performance enhancing drugs, otherwise known as “PED’s” are without a doubt the most controversial and most talked about topics in sports business. Every year, athletes across the country are suspended, fined, and sometimes banned from the professional leagues that they are a part of. The National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and Major League Baseball (MLB) are all among the most well-known leagues and associations

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    The Benefits Of Steroids

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    be using steroids. They might be really strong, but they are taking risk. Taking steroids does come with benefits, but it has side effects so whoever uses them have to be willing to deal with what happened to them. Steroids are used to enhance the performance of athletes in football, but they come with health risk that are very controversial. The history of steroids goes far back. The first form of steroids was first synthesized in the 1930s (Steroids

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    Steroid Consequences

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    Reward As a child, I loved watching Alex Rodriguez play baseball. I always tried to play like him, dress like him, and even act like him. A-Rod served as a role model for me. All of this was true until 2009, the year that A-Rod admitted to taking steroids. As I found out this news, my heart was crushed. I had grown up for nine years having A-Rod being the person I looked up to, but now he was just a cheater, and a jerk. Athletes around the world are breaking the rules and cheating by taking Performance-Enhancing

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    Oakland Athletics were ashamed to hear the news from the fellow team mate. Unfortunately due to the professional athlete’s well performance, McGwire influenced other baseball players to begin using the drug. Using Performance Enhancing Drugs in sports goes as far back as the 1980’s, in the article “Performance Enhancing Drugs” written by Stan Mcneal states that “Measuring the impact

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    Enhancing Drugs within Sports 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

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