Steroids In Professional Sports

Hard hits are hit every day in baseball and sometimes even homeruns, but do you ever think about how hitters are even able to hit that hard? Sometimes people work very hard to be able to hit hard, or some people take drugs such as steroids to get them where they are today. Steroids is a drug that contains many hormones, alkaloids, and vitamins, which make people a lot stronger. A former Oakland Athletics player Mark McGwire used steroids in MLB to help him be a strong hitter and thrower. People do use steroids in other sports, maybe such as football, soccer, and track, but is it really fair to others if someone else uses it to make them stronger? To play a fair game of baseball, steroids should not be involved.

Anabolic steroids are a synthetic versions of the male hormone testosterone. The use of anabolic steroids can be very dangerous without the supervision of a doctor. In the U.S., anabolic steroids are classified as a schedule III controlled substance (United States). Buying and selling of anabolic steroids is illegal, and one can face imprisonment or a fine. The use of anabolic steroids has acute and chronic health effects, and in sports, athletes who use steroids have an unfair advantage. Anabolic steroids should only be used medically by patients treating a chronic illness and not for performance enhancing purposes in sports.

Success comes from humbleness and dedication to achieve a goal or a dream. Drug use is not beneath some athletes who have seen no other way to become successful in their career. The organization that oversees professional sports should be in the business of testing athletes for drug use at least every month at random.

Most high school students are using drugs to help enhance themselves for sports or any athletic school team.There has been human experimentation with human growth hormones by America’s teens more than doubled in the past year, as more young people look to drugs for help with their athletic purposes and to improve their appearances according to a new, high-scale national survey. In a secret survey of 2013 3,705 high school students, were released on Wednesday by the Crew for Drug-Free Kids, 11% reported using synthetic HGH at least once — up from about 5 percent in the four preceding annual surveys. Teens use of steroids has increased from 5% to 7% over the same period of time the the survey has found. Since drug use can cause horrible physical

By the end of the 21st century steroids will be permitted in every professional sport. Professional sports can put as many limitations on what athletes can take but it will never be enough. Many athletes will have enough money to overcome these limitations. They may still get caught with the drugs but they have enough money to control the media so people won’t see what they did.

We all want to be the best. We want to be bigger, faster, and stronger. We want to excel at everything we attempt. It’s not easy, it takes a lot of work, drive, and motivation to become the best at what you do. We live in a world where the media highlights the most successful people in the world, many of these people being athletes. However, only a few athletes have the true desire to put in the work to achieve these traits. So, they turn to steroids. Steroids consumption has erupted since the late 1900’s and into the 2000’s. Today, the consumption of steroids with athletes is rising quicker than it ever has. Some of the most well know players in baseball were caught

What are performance enhancing drugs? PED’s are supplements such are human growth hormones and steroids that a person,usually an athlete, can take and they will make them perform much better than they really should. PED’s are a major issue in the NFL just this year several players have been suspended for taking these drugs. Two players for the Chicago bears, Alshon Jeffery and Jerrell Freeman, were both suspended in the same week for taking PED’s. Several other players that faced suspension were, Peyton Manning, Clay Matthews, Julius Peppers, and James Harrison. PED’s are not allowed in any professional sport because the give the athlete an unfair advantage over other athletes that do not take the supplements. Some physical downfalls of doping

Infertility, tendon rupture, increased blood pressure, heart attack, tumors, cancer, aggression, and severe acne; these are just some of the side effects of using anabolic steroids (“Anabolic steroid abuse”). Why would an athlete risk all of these serious side effects just to hit a baseball a little farther or to gain muscle mass to be superior against their opponents in football? Most people know who big-name athletes like Jose Canseco, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Lance Armstrong are; and admire them. Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs in just one season. Lance Armstrong won seven “Tour de France” titles in his career; both being doped up on steroids while doing so. Could they

Thesis : The history of steroids, the affects of steroids on the human body, steroids in sports, and reasons why people use steroids, are all things I 've wanted to know for a long time now I am going to further my knowledge on this topic.

With the ever increasing difficulty of “making it” in professional sports, many athletes look for a way to get ahead of the competition and they find this “power up” in steroids. Whether it be to hit a baseball farther, tackle an opponent harder or run faster, there really isn't a right or wrong answer to why athletes feel the need to take performance enhancing drugs. However, with an increasing danger to the physiological state of these athletes , steroids are becoming in many peoples minds too dangerous to take.. The real question is if these types of performance enhancing drug should be allowed in athletic competition.

Dating back to ancient times, a wide variety of substances have been used to enhance an athlete’s performance, and with new biochemical and technologic advancements on the horizon, we will see this practice unscrupulously continue (Duncan, 2013). The factors that motivate this behavior are probably many, but when athletic performance equates to the high salaries and lucrative endorsements reaped by today’s professional athletes, any additional help to gain an edge is certainly a powerful motivator. For the non-professional athlete, other less tangible forces; such as vanity, competitiveness, or praise may drive people to seek these enhancers.

All athletes want to win, but some want to win more than others. Some athletes will do anything to get the competitive edge over their opponents. Then they turn to drugs to get the edge. Steroids are the most common drug for athletes to take. It increases muscle mass, body weight etc. Athletes also take androstenedione, creatine, anabolic steroids and ephedra alkaloids. 2.5-5% of adolescents are using these drugs. There are a lot of banned drugs, just about 50-130 different drugs that cannot be used in any kind of sport. The United States of America Doping Agency or (USADA) is requiring more and more drugs tests on the players at the college level and professionals as well. Many of the drugs cause acne, aggressiveness, baldness and many more

One study was conducted (Ljungqvist.1975) a questionnaire on top Swedish athletes, which aimed to investigate the use of anabolic steroids in Sweden at 1975. Anabolic androgenic steroids are synthetic derivatives of testosterone. Anabolic androgenic steroids are used to enhance athletic performance and appearance. A questionnaire was distributed to the ten best male athletes in each track and field event in Sweden in the year of 1973. In total, 144 athletes were involved in this investigation and answers were received from 99 (69%). It was asked in the questionnaire whether the athletes had been using any anabolic steroids. In case steroids had been used the athletes were asked to answer specific questions related to positive and negative effects

Did you know in some cases PEDs, or Performance Enhancing Drugs, have been used on people 12 years or younger? People in sports have always wanted an edge and use PEDs, even at young ages. Because of this the world of sports need to enforce anti-doping rules more.

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, an athlete is defined as “a person who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, or stamina.” Athletes train and practice year-round to prepare for the competition and challenges. At times during the preparation, injuries are sustained and fatigue is endured. To rid themselves of these obstacles, athletes take performance-enhancing drugs, which are also known as steroids. In the United States, the use of steroids is illegal without a prescription. When it comes to punishing athletes for the use of performance-enhancing drugs, depending on what sport and/or what league you are playing in,