Tyler Smith March 2, 2012 English 122-021 W.C. - 1016 Steroids in Sports The use of steroids in sports has not only diminished the names of some of the players that have used them, but have somewhat lessened the interest in the sports involved. The use of these drugs has brought up the topic of cheating in sports and that is exactly what it is. In Peter F. Martin’s article “Destroyed”, he emphasizes the fact that use of these performance enhancers is cheating and has substantial consequences involved after using them. Just the word steroid when talking about sports implies cheating to me. The fact that someone is willing to put these chemicals into their system to make them better and stronger at what they do is immoral.
(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.
Another method to try and cure the sick was to place dried toads on the red, pussy boils. If the toad swelled up the person was said to be cured because the toad had sucked out all the poison. Sometimes leeches were applied all over the body to suck out the sick blood. This was expensive and many people could not afford a doctor to come and apply the leeches. Doctors could charge as much as they wanted during the Black Plague.
MLB Should Apply a Mandatory Steroid Test for All Players In today’s sports world, there have been many problems with players cheating the game by using drugs to make them perform better. Many sports today have not applied testing for all players and have regretted not doing it awhile back. The drug problem is mostly hurting Major League Baseball the most but has an effect on all sports. There are players that are playing the game without using steroids therefore whom are being cheated out because players are making more money by performing better because of the use of steroids. Furthermore, this is hurting the reputation of the MLB because fans have lost respect for their heroes who have always thought they were playing the game correctly.
Also, one of the main ingredients called THC as a hallucinogen will disturb users’ sensory experience. “THC causes animals to misjudge events,” reported Ronald Siegel (Myers116), which means that THC would increase the dose of cocaine Houston takes because after taking marijuana, Houston was unable to realize that she had overdosed on cocaine and kept taking it. Therefore, taking marijuana and cocaine at the same time results in a chemical reaction to drive users take more cocaine, which strengthen depressed feelings eventually. Xanax, as an antianxiety drug, relieves users’ nervous tension by slowing down the movement of chemicals in the brain that may cause unbalance of chemicals, and it will calm central nervous system to cause sleepiness as well. So the dizziness caused by Xanax makes Whitney Houston unconscious when she was in a
For instance, some people’s health deteriorates because of the abuse of using PED’s. Some athletes become so addicted that it eventually kills them in the long run. Sen. George Mitchell (Senator of U.S.) also states that steroids also cause “Psychiatric problems, cardiovascular and liver damage, drastic changes to their reproductive systems, and musculoskeletal injury.” As for the Human Growth
In the book there is a very interesting drug called soma it has many perks that drugs in our present society don’t have. Nowadays when you take drugs or drink alcohol there are side effects. These side effects can be very deadly to your body. Heroin is an example of a drug having terrible side effects to your body and also your brain. Heroin makes your heart beat extremely fast and leaves bruises from the site of injection.
Steroids in Baseball and the Ethical Implications “Cheat or lose.” “Everybody does it.” “It was the only way to get ahead.” These are just a few reasons that people give for cheating. Cheating in our society has become so prevalent that one can hardly go a day without seeing a scandal on the front page of the newspaper. Corporations are being caught cooking their books, students are cheating on exams, ordinary people lie on their tax returns, and athletes are taking illegal drugs to gain a boost in their performance. This leads one to ask, “why”? Are there new pressures today that cause people to cheat more than in previous generations?
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,
In many sports today steroids is becoming a more and more evident problem. The game has evolved and the many athletes believe that the only way to keep up is with steroids. While steroids can give someone an edge over another it is cheating and there should be a zero tolerance rule set up in all sports at all levels Athletes that use these performance enhancing drugs should be immediately ejected from whatever organization they are members of. I see this as the only logical punishment for doing such a thing as cheating. Many athletes use anabolic steroids to increase muscle mass and strength.