Steroid Abuse Hurts Baseball The abuse of steroids among players in Major League Baseball is corrupting the image of America’s Pastime as well as endangering the health of those who use the illegal substances. The lack of testing and punishment for the use of illegal substances like steroids in the Major Leagues portrays a negative image to aspiring young athletes. They see their role models using steroids and becoming better athletes rather than seeing suspensions for the illegal behavior or
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concerning apparent steroid drug use in Major League Baseball. As an avid baseball watcher and player of the game for twelve years this scandal is of great concern to me. In the time to come I will be informing you of how steroid use has tarnished baseball’s image‚ allowed for more records to be broken unfairly and the harmful effects it has on your body. Firstly‚ steroid use has tainted out national pastime and tarnished the game of baseball forever. Since random drug testing for steroids has been imposed
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“Some professional athletes use steroids and other drugs to gain a competitive advantage in their sport.”(Sprague) This shows that they are using substances that gives them the upperhand‚ like building muscles‚ in the sport without working hard like everyone else. Also‚ these performance enhancing drugs may damage your body horribly. According to the author‚ “Such substances have been known to cause death by heart attack in previously healthy users.”(Sprague) These steroid and other drugs can change many
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Alex Rodriguez‚ the highest paid player in the history of baseball‚ has finally come clean about his use of steroids in the last decade as part of an immunity deal with the Drug Enforcement Association. Although the All-Star third baseman had admitted to steroids use in the past‚ he had steadfastly denied using banned substances since he joined the New York Yankees in 2004. “All my years in New York have been clean‚” he told ESPN in 2009. (Howard). With this in mind‚ many people enjoy watching sports
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Anabolic steroids is an article in which some scientist are trying to create awareness of the health risks and consequences that people can obtain if they use anabolic steroids. To support the ideas and concepts‚ the author interviewed different specialist who chemically explained the different reactions in our bodies caused by different types of anabolic steroids such as Androstenedione. He also wrote different about known of using anabolic steroids and how these affected their careers. The author
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exposure of athletes using steroids has exploded into a phenomenon involving athletes all around the world. It has cheapened sports and cast doubt on the integrity of our athletes. Steroid use is not exclusive to professional sports. More and more college and high school athletes are beginning to use steroids for many of the same reasons that the pros do; to enhance performance‚ get an edge on the competition‚ and improve personal appearance. Non-medical use of anabolic steroids is illegal and banned
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years people have debated weather not to have steroids in sports‚ or to keep them away from all competition. However some athletes use steroids anyway to “get ahead” of the competition. These action can cause athletes being kicked out of a game or even all future competition. Some people ask “Why use steroids?” Some athletes use drugs‚ where they can train their bodies hard and then have their bodies recover fast. Different types of athletes use steroids in different ways depending on what sport the
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life? Would you take it then? Probably not. However‚ you would be surprised by how many people say yes to both questions. In the past three decades‚ anabolic steroids have been a very serious problem throughout the athletic field (Budak). It is reported that over three million athletes and body builders alone have used steroids. Anabolic steroids are drugs that include testosterone‚ the male sex hormone and estrogen‚ the female sex hormone. The word anabolic comes from the Greek word “anabole” which
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Banning Anabolic Steroids It has been speculated for many years that some professional athletes were using performance enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids. The reason so many people were talking about this issue is the fact that all of the sudden there were quite a few players that were hitting many more homeruns than they had previously in their careers. The Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 22‚ 2004. This new law closed the
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performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Specifically Steroids‚ which flourished in Major League Baseball in the 1970s. During the 1900s steroids quickly became much more excessively used and widespread. Awareness of the problem was initially ignored‚ however; the statistical evidence on the issue had become much too strong too and the problem was brought to the attention of the public. The awareness of the issue left the public with questions on how the drugs work. Steroids have
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