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    Steroids Back in the 1930’s when you looked in the sports page of the newspaper; everything would be great stories of incredible sports events and feats. But now‚ when you look at the sports pages in the newspaper‚ it’s all about steroids and cheating in sports. One of the biggest issues in sports today is the severity in danger of athletes using steroids or performance enhancing drugs. Illegal doping is the process of using steroids or other performance enhancing drugs while participating in

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    Steroids: The Deadly Decision Sports can teach us so many things. We learn to take responsibility‚ work hard towards a common goal‚ and sportsmanship towards one another. The basis of these principles isn’t taught in the big leagues but in the midst of high school sports where most find their passion for a sport. This is the level where a strong foundation for these principles is built. High school sports provide an outlet for some students as well as a place for healthy competition until the competition

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    normal paternalistic attitudes. Quoting Norman Fost‚ “The number of deaths from play professional football and college football is 50 to 100 times higher than the wildest exaggerations about steroids.” Therefore I believe performance enhancing drugs (steroids) should be accepted in sports. 6 experts on steroids took on the issue

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    The use of steroids in sports Corey Nalley GE 117 July 21‚ 2010 Mr. Ryan | The use of steroids in sports Everyone watches sports. Even the Romans used sports to see who the best was. The only difference then it was more one on one. Sports today are more on what team is better rather than what player is better. The use of steroids has forever changed the face of professional sports‚ making it a world fueled by drug contacts instead of skill and talent. Steroids have been a very common

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    The effects of steroids in the long run Steroids have become a taboo of the sports world. Steroids are similar to taboos such as incest or child marriage‚ something that is known but not encouraged or spoken of in regular conversation. Anabolic Steroids are illegal drugs that are used by athletes to enhance their performance and make them bigger‚ stronger and faster. In today’s world‚ athletes are expected to give performances that are better than the last and to stay on top of their game to maintain

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    phenomenon of the human body in athletes. Use of steroids can have serious health repercussions. As steroid give an athlete a superhuman like ability in their performance in respective sports‚ they tend to use it more than the recommended dose. Secondly‚ the use of PEDs affects the integrity of sport. Sport is not about simply winning‚ the cliché “It’s not about whether you win or lose‚ it’s how you played the game” is absolutely true. Permitting the use of steroids under proper medical supervision would threaten

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    drugs has a different effect on people. Some of the negative outcomes of taking PEDs include severe acne‚ hair loss‚ malignant liver tumors and cysts‚ kidney cancer‚ and heart issues like heart attacks and strokes. Those are just the risks of taking steroids. Along with all of the negative physical effects‚ there are also many negative emotional outcomes by taking performance enhancing drugs. One of the major emotional outcomes is that depression is more likely to occur after taking performance enhancing

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    The use of steroids continues to make news and sports headlines as athletes and bodybuilders use them illegally to gain an advantage on the playing field. Anabolic steroids refer to hormones that are either taken orally or by injection that influence the body’s hormonal system to produce extra testosterone. In addition to medicinal uses‚ athletes have taken anabolic steroids to build muscle size and boost athletic performance since the 1950s. Increasingly‚ other segments of the population‚ including

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    Michael Fulcher Professor Pecora English 1413 24 July 2012 The Truth about Anabolic Steroids When someone thinks about drug related deaths they might think of cocaine‚ ecstasy‚ or heroin but very few people think of anabolic steroids. Some people wonder‚ what is an anabolic steroid? A steroid is a basic four-ring carbon structure‚ but different types differ in the number of carbon atoms attached to the number 17 carbon atom in the molecule‚ and in the way which hydrogen (H)‚ oxygen (O)‚ and

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    The second way that steroids most likely improve athletic performance is due to the infamous phenomenon know as the placebo effect. Although I cannot give you hard evidence or studies that prove this claim‚ I can and will explain my reasoning for this claim. As you may know‚ Major League Baseball is notorious for it’s players getting busted for performance enhancing drugs‚ aka anabolic steroids. Player’s statistics have shown a vast increase when influenced by anabolic steroids. For instance‚ the

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