Do Athletes Use Anabolic Steroids?

Have you ever wondered why athletes cannot use performance enhancing drugs? Well how would you like it if you worked your whole life to win something and someone that used performance enhancing drugs took that from you? Performance enhancing drugs can be very dangerous to your body and can give you a lot of different side effects that can kill you.
“There are many types of performance enhancing drugs that athletes use, but the type used the most is Anabolic Steroids”(Wang Stephen). These Anabolic Steroids were “Invented by Physician John Ziegler in the 1950’s. (Opposing) Now there are over one hundred different types of Anabolic Steroids. This is one of the most used because it improves your strength, endurance, and they help you recover from exercise that are really hard on the body. “This kind of drugs is mostly used by runners and cyclist for many years”. (Opposing) Because it helps them recover faster, and it also increases their competitiveness. Not only has that it also helped to reduce tiredness. But it has more side effects than it does well.
The bad effects that they have on athletes.
“They can give you adverse health effects, like cancer, high blood pressure, anxiety, diabetes or arthritis” (Opposing) Also changes in the heart rhythm and chemical addiction. ‘All of this which if not taken care of, you could die before you reach the age of 40”. (Performance) Many people want the legalization of performance enhancing drugs as long as they are under a regulation. They think that by doing this there would be less dangerous to use it and there would be a reduction of crime. But with the help of a doctor there would also be a reduction of health risks, and could find out more about what you are talking and the risk it comes with. The chances of this happening are like a zero percent because people like to see athletes that try their best to be the best and that would just make it easier. The agencies every day, try to keep up with all the new drugs that are
made.
It is every day harder to try and cache an athlete that uses performance, enhance drugs because they are more advanced than they used to be. “One way that is used to try and cache athletes is urine or blood to find evidence of banned substances or anything that does not look like it is supposed to be there”(Performance). They are even trying to test them more often because that seem to help and you cache more athletes then if they already know when your are going to do it. “The agencies markets to be tried and find new ways to detect the performance enhanced drugs, but just can’t stay ahead” (Wang Stephen). Every day there are hundreds of new drugs that are made, some are even made so that they cannot be detected so it is hard to know what they are putting in does drugs and try and cache them. But they will keep on trying every day, they also find, out of a new drugs and new ways to cache them.
Before using performance enhancing drugs you should think about what they can do too your body first. They are very dangerous and harm you in many ways. Plus it feels way better to work hard for something than to cheat to get what you want. Working for it you at least have some pain to remember what you have accomplished and that way all the people that see you like the best don’t have to be lied to and everyone is happier that way. You don’t have to worry about people finding out what you did and hate you in the future because you lied to them and also make your family look really bad. Next time just think about what you are going to do and get ready for the consequences.