Opposite the high rates of alcohol and tobacco use by teenagers, only 18% of seniors use illicit drugs, which are illegal for the entire society. This increase in drug use will not come easy for American society, but instead it will come at a very high price. The price will be that American society will be overrun with drug-related accidents, lost work productivity, and hospital emergency rooms filled with drug- related
Aside from the negative influence, the negative health effects that come along with steroids can be dreadful. While steroids may increase muscle and athletic performance, they also increase chance of heart disease, stroke, and other heart related problems. Being able to hit a home run or throw the ball a few extra yards is not worth damaging the most vital organ in the human body. Finally, the most important point of all is that by taking steroids, one is cheating God by enhancing the body that He has already made perfectly. The situation would be different if one could not gain muscle without the use of steroids, but that is not the case.
Although steroids may improve performance, they will continue to harm athletes and ruin sports as we know it if restrictions are not more strictly enforced. Anabolic steroids are being abused in many different ways such as orally, injection, or by a gel or cream in order to improve athletes’ performances. In today’s society, professional athletes are using anabolic steroids to gain an advantage against their opponents, and the young children that idolize them are in turn also abusing steroids. What all these athletes do not understand is the harm that abusing steroids are doing to them. I feel that people need to stop abusing steroids because it not only hurts you hormonally, but it will also hurt their musculoskeletal and cardiovascular system,
The higher alcohol content in hard liquor was more effective for getting drunk yet it also took its toll on the population’s health. Prohibition also created a large amount of bootleggers and moonshiners that were producing home made alcohol that was not always safe to drink. People also tried to get alcohol from sources that were still available and legitimate such as alcohol that was produced for medical, industrial and ceremonial purposes. People even attempted to get alcohol by trying to filter the alcohol out of antifreeze. Many of these homemade alcohols contained much higher percentages of alcohol and they sometimes were unsafe to drink which led to several deaths during the prohibition.
(Weebly 6) The liver can be over worked by consuming a great amount of steroids, slowing the bile movement through the liver which can increase the chances of a tumor developing. (Alvin, Virginia, Silverstein 42) Anabolic steroids can be taken orally, applied as a gel or cream, and injected. (Woolston) When injecting steroids through a syringe the possibility of contracting a blood borne disease dramatically increases. The use of anabolic steroids can affect your life in so many ways. Steroids can be particularly dangerous for adolescents because of bodies are still developing and can cause adulthood before reaching puberty.
Although it appears that steroids are helping the body, they are actually killing it. The excessive use of steroids cause arteries to plug up with fat, which can cause strokes and heart attacks. Steroids also attack the liver and weaken the immune system (Lardas). A schools main priority should be on the health of their students. Steroids are a big health issue and testing the athletes for steroids will force them to stop taking steroids.
Some of the effects of the type drugs are harmful in men and woman in many of the same ways. Different in many ways, in some cases it even ends in the death of the athlete. “Performance-enhancing substances are used widely by athletes despite the potential for serious adverse effects. Since the deaths of a Danish cyclist at the 1960 Olympics and of a UK cyclist at the 1967 Tour de France,” (Dhar, 2005). Then other case the side effects are different for man and woman, in man it result in the change of the bodies in ways that you could never imagine.
The original ban on anabolic steroids was enacted due to moral and ethical concerns, not the player’s health or safety. Even though the ban was put into place, some athletes refused to listen. The first athlete caught breaking the ban was an American swimmer named Rick De Mont. He was caught using a newly banned substance in the year of 1972, is known as ephedrine. There are many negative effects to using steroids.
Companies’ off-label drugs so that they can make a great deal more profit in the end. This is because instead of just selling and having one drug on the market for one sole purpose, they can have one drug on the market that can be used for several other treatments. Although they cannot legally promote the off-label uses of their drugs to the doctors, some companies take the risk anyways for personal benefits. Take Pfizer for example; they had four off-label drugs out on the market that resulted in making their patients sicker and even causing death for the uses that they were prescribed. This cost Pfizer $2.3 billion dollars.
It appears as though most sports enthusiasts are opposed to the use of steroids in sports due to the mass amounts of trials which have come about in recent years, however I think that steroids are not exactly hurting the game because the only ones they really hurt are the players in a medical sense. I do see how people are opposed to steroid use in baseball because it is America's past-time and having people break records due to unfair advantage that they possess due to medical breakthroughs, which were not present during the early days of