Abuse of Steroids Bryan Cruse Dr. T. Mathias Eng 121-fall 5 December 5, 2008 Abuse of Steroids The use of steroids in high school football is becoming a life threatening practice for young athletes. According to Seth Livingstone in Sports Weekly “lives are being altered-even lost to the use of performance enhancing substances that have made their way to the corridors and playing fields of the nation’s high school, collage, and professional athletes.” Steroids are manufactured substances that produce male hormones that produce un-natural stimulants used for muscle building. These drugs can be prescribed for things such as delayed puberty, AIDS, and other causes that cause the muscle mass to decrease. But the problem
Did you know athletes at the collegiate level are required to pull their pants down in front of the nurse to prove the urine sample is their own! Not only is that morally wrong, but could stir up legal drama and end in a lawsuit and the end of their athletic career. Likewise, money always seems to be an issue in our time, but $15 million dollars is being spent on these drug tests when most are lied about to be thrown away. Marijuana and tobacco is the most positive drug in teenage drug tests. Nurse Jennifer Hanson was questioned about this and replied “yes, many are positive for these drugs and when a majority of them are told their results the automatic answer is ‘I was in the car with someone smoking’ and the head nurse tells them they’re fine to go.” If the head nurses doing these tests let these lying kids go, is there a point?
(The Sports Industry’s war on Athletes By: Peter S. Finley and Laura L. Finley) There are also younger faster kids moving up the ranks that want to unseat them and take over. It is the circle of life for any athlete. In society today, doping is starting at a very young age. High school students are taking steroids to gain an upper hand on their competition to get the scouts to come look at them and not their rivals. College tuition is very high and for most student athletes the money is hard to come by in these economic times of struggle.
Colton Torrance 11/21/13 Philosophy Term Paper Why steroid use for athletic enhancement is not morally wrong The use of steroids for athletic enhancement has been one of the most contentious aspects of many sports for the last couple of decades. With the innovation of more enhanced drug tests along with improved performance-enhancing drugs, this matter has only become more prevalent. At almost any level of sports, whether it be high school football or the Olympics, steroid use is practiced world-wide at an increasing rate. Furthermore, despite the attempts to prevent the use of steroids by the NCAA, WADA, and any other association/organization that drug tests athletes, which cost more money every year due to the need to test more athletes
Steroid use in high schools is only continuing to increase. Because of increased athletic competition the number of steroid users only grows larger, and with more people using steroids there are more people getting hurt by their effects. Steroids are harming a whole new generation of athletes that could otherwise be great. These steroids in turn bring the careers of many to an early end. Steroids are ruining a whole generation of athletes with their harmful side
Ashley Odom SPCM 1015 Title Our youth on drugs * Specific purpose to educate and inform the audience on how drugs are ruining America’s youth. * Central Idea: we need to take a stand in America against drug use in our youths. * Introduction every year more teens die of overdose in America than motor vehicle accidents * Revel topic I am here today to talk to you today about the alarming number of teens in America on drugs. * Credibility statement I have done drastic amounts of research on this topic and feel that the information I have gathered is not only credible but it is also information that everyone should be aware of. * Relevancy Statement we all have youths in our lives who may be facing secrete
When people who take the drug now become extremely dependent on it, and they are so old that their body will not allow them to take it. That is when we will know how dangerous these drugs really are. A case study completed in Boston proves many college students take Adderall and abuse the drug. The study was first authored by Northeastern University, Pharmacy Professor Christian Teter, outside of the study he also found that the primary motives for illicit use were to enhance academic performance, while less than a third of illicit users intended to get high or experiment with these stimulants. Alarmingly 40% of these students still snorted other prescription
This month a Rand study that followed 3,400 people from seventh grade through age 23 reported that those who had three or more drinks within the past year, or any drink in the past month, were likelier to use nicotine and illegal drugs, to have stolen items within the past year and to have problems in school. In a report issued last December, the American Medical Association found that teen drinking -- not bingeing, just drinking -- can seriously damage growth processes of the brain and that such damage "can be long term and irreversible." The AMA warned that "short term or moderate drinking impairs learning and memory far more in youth than in adults" and that "adolescents need only drink half as much to suffer the same negative effects." This exhaustive study concluded that teen drinkers "perform worse in school, are more likely to fall behind and have an increased risk of social problems, depression, suicidal thoughts and
Once the Judges, Governors, senators and every other political officials have come to an agreement on the controversy, I feel America will become a much healthier, smellier, safer place. Cannabis is known to calm the crazy nerves of the mentally unstable and the autistic, known to make convicts admit to their heinous crimes, help students focus on studying or taking standardized tests, all these are untreatable by any other medicine or doctor. The crime rate of drug possession is said go down significantly according to a student survey taken by mostly 10th and 11th graders in high school, and 20 students attending Glendale Community College in Arizona. If marijuana is legal, why would drug addicts go out of their way to pick up hard drugs when they could swing by their local Cannabis club? They wouldn’t.
As a result of the immense pressure by society to succeed, many students, nowadays, are pressured into using drugs to either fit in or to help gain a competitive edge over classmates in school. Much of the youth population today relies on the use of drugs to help succeed in school and outside of school, on the countless standardized test, which has a large deciding influence on the future of the student. “Among high school seniors, 7.4 percent reported taking Adderall for non-medical reasons, 5.3 percent reported abuse of the pain reliever Vicodin, and 5 percent reported abuse of cough medicine containing dextromethorphan” (Drug Abuse). Many of the students who use drugs such as Adderall, use it to gain a more concentrated focus, which allows them to strengthen their performance on an enduring test such as the SAT. Although many students rely on drugs for educational purposes, the true factor for the rapid growth amongst teen users is peer-pressure.