This research studies the pros and cons of using steroids. Then, it weighs out the pros and cons and talks about which outweighs the other and why. Finally, this leads to the decision that steroids are way too dangerous and risky for any athlete to even consider about taking them. Money, fame, success, pressure, or just plain stupid: why do athletes take steroids? We have all heard of famous athletes having their career and life jeopardized because of taking steroids.
However, drug abuse in professional sports can be anything. Things such as marijuana, alcohol, Human growth hormones, amphetamines, prescription drugs and other performance enhancers are just some of the drugs that are found in a drug test. "Performance enhancers, like steroids and other forms of doping, have a negative effect on long-term health. For then users of these enhancers are hurting themselves in the long run without on the average improving their short-term rewards from athletic competition, as long as competitors also use harmful enhancers. This is the main rationale for trying to ban steroids and other forms of doping from athletic competitions."
If one athlete uses blood-boosting drugs and the other one doesn’t, the game will go in favor of one using drugs because it will increase the chance of the athlete to win the game. An important advantage of banning drugs is that, it will give audience a fair and balanced game. Someone using drugs would make it obvious that he/she will win the match. But if none of the players use steroids there will be suspense, thriller and excitement in the match to figure out which side will win the game. According to the article “Should we accept steroids use in Sports?” by Katz Jeffrey, Richard Pound states that “legalizing drugs would change the nature of what sport is, it would go from what it is supposed to be the result of natural human talents to a circus act or some kind of freak show”.
Now performance-enhancing drugs are being used more then ever by athletes to improve their athletic abilities. Athletes also use steroids because they want to be the best in the sport that they participate in. Even non-athletes are using steroids because they want to gain more muscle without doing all the work. The use of steroids is cheating. Through looking at the effects of performance-enhancing drugs, the unfair advantage they give a player, and the affects they cause others and sports they should be banned completely from the world of athletics.
The second main reason that people should stop using steroids is, because it can kill them. There are many ways steroids can kill you. Steroids can cause liver failure, high blood pressure, cancer, strokes caused by blood clots and most of all major heart attacks. The reason people have heart attacks from steroid use is because it makes your blood to thick to pump through your heart, causing your heart to work much harder than normal, and then causing the person to have a heart attack. The third main reason that people should not use steroids is because it causes many other health problems in their life.
Depporah Joseph M B English 042 10 May 2012 Anabolic steroids Should athletes be allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs in order to improve their performance? Steroid usage in sports has long been a big issue for many athletes both professional and amateur. Steroids are not condoned in any sport however; some athletes do take the chance by using performance-enhancing drugs in order to increase the chances of a successful outcome in a competition. Many athletes have been barred from participating in certain sports because they were convicted of taking steroids. In light of this, one can only wonder how many top athletes have won events due to the use of steroids.
The outcome of the race is likely determined before it has even begun. If we are to save both grade school and collegiate sports from evolving into a battle solely between mechanized and medically enhanced athletes, something must be done to rectify it. Because both technological and pharmacological doping provide unfair advantages to athletes, those who are enhanced by them should be in placed in separate competitive leagues to provide for a more balanced athletic atmosphere in schools. This same rule applies to athletes who may depend upon certain prescribed drugs to satisfy their biological deficiencies yet provide a competitive benefit. According to the World Anti-Doping Agency, technological enhancements threaten the integrity of the sport.
The use of steroids is to try and gain an athletic edge. Steroids can cause a person to get bigger, stronger and faster but they will not give you skill or agility and technique. Many athletes abuse these drugs in order to boost their athletic performance but they may be doing so at a cost. Not only will the athlete be suspended or kicked out of their sport if they get caught, they also may be putting themselves at a serious health risk.
‘Should Performance Enhancing Drugs be legalised in sport’? This is major issue in today’s world of sport. Performance Enhancing Drugs have become major issues nowadays in world sports. Some people think that Performance Enhancing Drugs should be legalised because it was proven that drugs step up the level of sport and the catch will be their health, it will cause a bad effect on their health such as disrupting the production of hormones in the body, cardiovascular diseases, including heart attacks and strokes. Other says that Performance Enhancing Drugs should not be legalised in sport because they takes away the true origin and value of sport.
Almost every high school student gets into a situation that they don’t want to be in. Peer pressure is an example of one of these situations. Peer pressure of doing drugs can lead to a high school athlete to get himself in a big trouble. Who is to say that he will be the next to get randomly drug tested. Since June of 1995, the US Supreme Court has been all for random drug interscholastic student athlete drug testing.