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.
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.
Many people do not think about these things. You should not be allowed to use any type of drugs as an athlete unless they are prescribed to you. Illegal drugs can affect the way you play and can screw you emotions and hormones. Drug test should be mandatory for every sport and team. Drug Testing is should be used in higher levels of sports to ensure the safety and health of these athletes is good at all times.
It is the way to escape hard work and training. Cheating will lead the athlete to fame and fortune but the feeling that you did not do any hard work and training to strive your goal can destroy a person. The athlete who get used to take Performance Enhancing Drugs are not playing for competitiveness or for the fun of sport, they are playing because they are hungry for popularity and fortune. Basically, this is the reason why performance-enhancing drugs is destroying sport. * Health risk Each of us have the right to be free, so why athletes does not have the right to take drugs, in fact taking drugs can help them to achieve their own goals.
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.
Kevin Pankonien Pinki Charkrabati ENG 107-13 March 12, 2014 Compare and Contrast Many debate whether PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) such as HGH and steroids have had a negative impact on Major League Baseball over the past twenty years. For instance, the article “Performance Enhancing Drugs” by Jarred Tynes argues that steroids must be removed from the MLB. He states that “The MLB must strictly adhere to a new policy to ensure its effectiveness” (Tynes, p. 15). Tynes argues that PEDs are ruining the game of baseball and could be fatal to the players using them. On the contrary, a study performed by professors from California Berkley suggests that PEDs increase offensive production and make the game more exciting (Grossman, pg.
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Legalizing Marijuana Pamela Horton SOC 120 Introductions to Ethics & Social Responsibility George Greaves October 29, 2012 Some people believe that marijuana is not a drug it is a plant. Many my agree that it is a natural herb planted to help cope with stress of everyday hectic lives. Anything that alters your state of being, or have you doing things out of the norms is a drug. The pro-legalization argument was that if we legalize marijuana it could not be controlled and the efforts to try to control marijuana uses causes more problems than they solve. I feel that if we legalize marijuana we would have a bunch of fried brain lunatics running around committing all kinds of crimes.
One of the most popular ways to gain a competitive edge on the competition in professional athletes is to use performance enhancement drugs. It is illegal to use performance enhancing drugs. The leagues expect the athletes to get their size and skill from working out and practicing, not using a drug. Therefore, the athletes have to be discrete about taking performance enhancement drugs. Performance enhancement