greats. You have been using steroids to help build your strength and look good. One Saturday night you blast your 74th homerun‚ setting a new record for most homeruns in a single season. Do you think you should be included in the record book‚ even though you used performance enhancing drugs? Do you feel you are cheating the sport and dishonoring America’s favorite pastime? Scenarios like this are actually happening in Major League Baseball. The use of anabolic steroids by professional baseball players
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high stakes‚ not just millions‚ but dozens of millions. The fear of losing everything career‚ opportunity‚ contracts‚ name‚ fame‚ and money is pushing more sportsmen all over the world to use performance enhancing drugs‚ mainly anabolic-androgenic steroids‚ to either gain a competitive advantage‚ or to simply keep pace with other athletes using performance enhancers. The primary reason why PED’s are outlawed in professional sports is that they give users a perceived unfair advantage over the rest of
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The Effects of Steroids on the Human Body and Steroid Abuse by Athletes For many years‚ the use and abuse of anabolic-androgenic steroids have been linked closely to athletes. Steroids come in different forms. They can be taken in pill form or injected straight into the user’s muscles by a needle. There are many sports that are associated with steroid abuse like weightlifting‚ basketball‚ and track and field. Anabolic-androgenic steroids are synthetic forms of male sex hormones
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Steroids Should Be Banned It is amazing what athletes will do to achieve higher levels of performance and to sometimes get the extra edge on the competition. Most of the time people do not realize the long-term effects that result from the decisions they make early in life. This resembles the use of steroids in a person’s life. Steroids became an option to athletes in the Olympics and other major sporting events during the 1950’s. But this use of steroids among athletes only became widely
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As time has evolved and science in medicine has grown‚ it seems that steroid use has become more and more popular amongst baseball players. We now find our baseball players in the "Steroids Era". Steroids help athletes become stronger and more muscular‚ which is clearly necessary when trying to make a home run. Many people believe that using steroids is considered cheating and nothing is more "Un-American" as cheating. Steroids didn ’t make it to baseballs banned substance list until 1991‚ and testing
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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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Steroids and the athlete For the past few years‚ it has been all over the media; athletes on steroids and how it should be dealt with (Rutherford). But as sports-fan and as a society in general‚ we can be hypocrites at best. We like to see collegiate or Olympic athletes break long standing records‚ being in the 100 meters dash‚ the high jump‚ or in swimming‚ but when it is done and over with and later we find out that it was done with the help of anabolic steroids‚ we want to crucify them. Steroids
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Steroids By: Isaac Johnson Everybody wants to look and perform better. Many people want to be stronger to make themselves look and perform better. Some people achieve this through the use of anabolic steroids. Steroids are a great way to look and perform better‚ but they can also have many negative effects. There are two different types of steroids‚ Corticosteroids and Anabolic steroids. Corticosteroids are often prescribed to reduce swelling‚ stop itching and burning‚ and relieve pain. Corticosteroids
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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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