Justin Atkinson November 27, 2012 Why Athletes Should be Drug Tested Sports are a big part of the world. Many people idolize athletes. What people don’t think about is how the athletes are when they are not around a whole bunch of people. Have you ever wondered if your idol did drugs, such as steroids, marijuana, or non-prescribed cortisone, etc. Many people do not think about these things.
It needs to be solv ed. There is no one I’ve talked to that can say it is not a problem.” President Bush also mentioned the problem of steroids in baseball in last year’s State of the Union address. If it is a big enough problem for the President of United States to address to all Americans, it is obviously a problem baseball has. Not only are steroids cheating, it is a very wrong and lazy way to become the player you want to be. Success takes practice and many hours of dedicated hard work, not just an injection that will do it for you.
To start off, steroids have impacted baseball dramatically. Steroids enhance the performance of the athletes that play the game today. It not only adds an unfair advantage to the player abusing the illegal drug. It also adds a superstar to the already star casted teams of the MLB. As seen in many cases of steroid usage, a player and a team has a bad year the season before.
Whether or not these are all just side effects of better knowledge, better training, and improved diets, they also point to the use of performance enhancing drugs. The use of these products is not condoned by many people, but steroid users in professional sports are generally over judged due to the public’s lack of knowledge
To tell the truth, steroids just like pretty much everything else in this world, have pros and cons to it. To some athletes the pros outweigh the cons so they take steroids. For others it is the opposite. I am one of the others, I believe the cons outweigh the pros and athletes should not use steroids. People have heard of steroids and some of them know what they are or have a clue to what they are, but some just have no idea.
Too fast. Suspiciously fast… Corticosteroid drugs, called "steroids" for short, are chemicals that when used, reduce swelling and inflammation quickly. Anabolic steroids -- or more precisely, anabolic-androgenic steroids -- are the artificial byproducts of the naturally occurring male anabolic hormone testosterone. Both anabolic and androgenic have origins from the Greek language: anabolic, meaning "to build," and androgenic, meaning "masculinizing. When a male goes through puberty, testosterone is used by the body muscle faster, deepen the voice, and grow hair where it used to be bare.
There are always those Athlete’s who constantly cheat and break the rules. Every athlete has a way to bend the rules to their advantage. Yet, the only ones who are blamed for cheating are the professional athletes who use steroids. “Steroids, the popular name for synthetic (man-made) substances related to the male sex hormones, promote muscle growth and the development of male sexual characteristics. Steroids are abused, often by athletes, to enhance athletic performance and to improve physical appearance” (“Steroids fast facts” 1).
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.
Also, they are creating an uneven playing field and athletes not taking any type of illegal performance enhancing drugs are finding it harder to stay competitive with other athletes who are not as legitimate. Steroids and other illegal performance enhancing drugs are casting a shadow over the world of sports, one that not even the cleanest and most honest of athletes can escape. We have ushered in the Steroid Era of sports and something must be done to limit the number of players who use performance enhancing drugs to gain an advantage over their competition. Science and technology explained Definitions
The legalization of marijuana is an extremely controversial topic in America, and it has been for years. It is well known that legalization could better our country’s economy, lessen crime, and can benefit those suffering from painful health conditions. So besides the few I have listed, what is the actual problem here? The US government is too frightened to step out of the box and give us, the people, a chance to legally use marijuana for recreational use based on decades of false negative publicity on the matter. Years of ridicule and the constant reminders of the fact that marijuana is the “gateway drug” contributes greatly to this problem.