Steroids Persuasive Speech

Imagine being a senior in high school, your sport season is about to start and you have been practicing harder than you ever have. You’ve beat many records throughout your high school career and is the star athlete of the school. Many colleges are ready to give you offers on scholarships and you want to show them your best. But even though you’ve been working as hard as you can, you just can’t get close to the record you set last year. Many of your teammates are suggesting you to take some steroids because it will help you perform better. After you hear their suggestion you go home and think about the steroids.You know that steroids are very harmful the body. But would you risk it and take the steroids to perform better? In today’s society,
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse steroids are drugs that increase the testosterone level in a human body (“Anabolic Steroids” 1). “Anabolic steroids are synthetic variations of the male sex hormone testosterone.” Health care providers will provide steroids to people dealing with hormone issues and treat diseases, such as AIDs and cancer (NIDA 2). Patients that use steroids will usually orally take them or inject them into muscles. It was also be applied to the skin with a cream, gel,or patch (“Anabolic Steroids” 3). Steroids are not very similar to drugs which people get addicted to because it creates a “high”. It does not increase the production of dopamine in the brain. But if steroids are used for a very long time it can effect some of the chemical pathways in the brain (“Anabolic Steroids” 6). Even though it doesn’t create a high like many other drugs steroids can lead to addiction. (“Anabolic Steroids”
Even though The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990 placed anabolic steroids into Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) as of February 27, 1991 many athletes still use it (Tolliver 11). Steroid abuse is still a problem despite the illegality of the drug and the banning of steroids by various sports authorities and sports governing bodies.(Tolliver 18) Also even though The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has banned steroids in the recent news athletes were caught using steroids right before the 2016 Olympics and went to court for it. The IOC and professional sports leagues use urine testing to detect steroid use both in and out of competition (Tolliver 11). But we still see in the news the use of steroids a problem that is still existing