Why Do Professional Athletes Use Steroids?

Furthermore, steroids are terrible for the sports world in general. Athletes who abuse steroids cheat the game and themselves. “The use of performance-enhancing drugs by professional athletes, or doping, has been acknowledged as a problem since at least the 1960s” (Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports Fast Facts). Many superstar athletes had their reputation completely ruined because of being caught of cheating the game they play. Steroids are ruining professionals sports the more and more athletes decide to abuse performance-enhancing

Another reason as to why I think PEDs should not be legalized is that it has severe negative effects on musculoskeletal health. As an athlete, my musculoskeletal health is of great concern to me and if I start taking PEDs it will slowly degenerate my heath. Although winning is very important to an athlete, personal health should always be above that. The extreme pressure put on the athletes by their daily training already exhausts their body (muscles, bones, and joints). By taking PEDs, it will help make the body feel better in the short run but it will slowly deteriorate the body in the long run. The article by Nikolopoulos, Spiliopoulou, and Theocharis examines the negative side effects and potential health risks for athletes taking PEDs.

Do you feel that PED’s should be allowed in sport? The problem is that players use PED’s or Performance Enhancing Drugs to get an advantage over their opponents. Despite the advances in technology for discovering PED’s, there is still a great number of people who get away with PED’s. Many people continue to use PED’s and will continue to use them until they get caught, and even after they get caught. Performance enhancing drugs should not be allowed in sports, resulting in more fair competition.

Many argue that PEDs don't do anything for the fighters strength and only help the endurance of the fighter. Many say they do not do any harm to any human beings, the user nor the opposition. "There is no coherent argument to support the view that enhancing performance is unfair; if it were, we would ban coaching and training. Competition can be unfair if there is unequal access to particular enhancements, but equal access can be achieved more predictably by deregulation than by prohibition." (Dr. Norman Fost). "If each of us ought to be free to assume risks that we think are worth taking, shouldn't athletes have the same freedom as anyone else? After all, if we should not forbid smokers from risking their health by smoking, why should we prohibit track stars or weightlifters from taking risks with their health in pursuit of their goals?" (Dr. Robert Simon). To the main points of why PEDs should be illegal, many come with counterarguments, such as qualified physicians and doctors, to prove that illegal PEDs do not provide an unfair advantage against the opposition. PEDs should stay illegal for the very fact that they are hazardous to not only your health, but to others as well. Not only are they illegal but they are also morally

I believe that these drugs are safe when used in moderation and should be allowed to use by athletes if they choose, as if you allow Safe doping, then it will let the athletes have an advantage in their game plus they have a choice, when used for health purposes it's safe as well as moderately using them for working out and athletics to help recovery time, injury recovery and endurance. Yet these two types of steroids can be very addictive and most steroids prescribed are abused because of the addictive nature of them, when abused or taken over long periods of time, causing many irregularities in the body and diseases that may end up fatal as well as aggressive acts that can lead to crime, like robberies, assaults and damaging property. These acts are usually called “Roid Rage”. (Stacey L. Blachford and Kristine Krapp 2003) Steroids have healthy and unhealthy impacts, Healthy outweighs the unhealthy

30 percent of college and professional athletes use anabolic steroids, as do 10 to 20 percent of high school athletes. Among U.S. bodybuilders, studies show that steroid use exceeds 80 percent. (Lewis n.pag.) Steroids have become a huge problem in the sports world. Athletes use steroids as a way to build their body and endurance to beat out the competition. Steroids have a huge effect on the spirit of the sport; by causing unfairness and cheating. Steroids also have major effects of athletes bodies. Steroids are not beneficial for athletes because they ruin the spirit of the sports, there cause many health risks, and they hurt the overall performance of athletes that use them

It is impossible for researchers to design studies that would accurately test the effects of large doses of steroids on athletes, because giving participants such high doses would be unethical” (performance-enhancing drugs: know the risks, pg. 2). This further supports that athletes misuse steroids, not only because they are illegal and prohibited, but because they are taking doses higher than prescribed. By taking higher doses there is no way to really know the negative effects that may come with it, because very high doses of steroids has not been very well studied. In addition, the Mayo Clinic states, “Taking anabolic-androgenic steroids to enhance athletic performance, besides being prohibited by most sports organizations, it’s illegal. In the past 70 years, more effective law enforcement in the United States has pushed much of the illegal steroid industry into the black market. This poses additional health risks because the drugs are either made in another countries and smuggled into the U.S. or they are made in clandestine labs in the U.S.” (performance-enhancing drugs: know the risks, pg. 3). The reader can see from the information above that steroids are illegal and prohibited for the use of athletes. It also helps the reader see just how dangerous these drugs are because law enforcement has pushed the steroid industry into the black market where they do not have to meet government

Taking Performance Enhancing Drugs makes the athletes phony and doesn’t show true skill and talent. Rather it shows that the athletes taking them don’t believe in themselves and need to have that extra boost in order to show the sporting world what they are “truly” capable of. PEDs should be banned from sports with a no tolerance policy. The consequences should be stricter and the athlete should be banned from the sport for life so that there will be less athletes to take the PEDs for years to

Steroids have a long-term, negative effect on the human body. These effects range from cardiovascular problems to mental and psychological issues such as rage and anger problems. Steroid use has been linked to increased alcohol consumption, marijuana use, cigarette smoking, and narcotic use (Buckman, Farris & Yusko, 2013). Many athletes may not be aware of the lasting effects steroids can have because all they are worried about is their performance, not their health.

Along with the physical problems there are also mental 54reactions associated with the usage of steroids. This drug becomes very addictive and damaging to the mind. It causes violent episodes which an athlete can claim a legal insanity defense to it. They get so wrapped up psychologically that the negative effects doesn't matter to them. Research has also discovered that steroids cause psychotic side effects sometimes referred to as "roid mania". Along with these are wild aggressive, combative behavior, depression, listlessness and delusions during and after performance. Even though the

There are good reasons to allow performance enhancement, to make sport fairer and to narrow the gap between the cheaters and the honest athletes. It would provide a better spectacle, be safer and less coercive” (Foddy) Therefore, with the legalization of PED’s not only would the playing field suddenly be even for all players, it would be at a higher level. Furthermore, athletes on the way up whose entourages don’t yet include savvy physiotherapists and doctors would be less likely to overdose and do themselves harm.

In the article, “Performance Enhancing Drugs, Paternalism, Meritocracy, and Harm to Sports” by Nicholas Dixon, argues that PED 's should remain banned due to the many different medical risks one could develop when taking drugs mostly, anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids might be the most popular performance-enhancing drugs out there today, but most definitely isn 't the only one being used. There are many medical problems associated with these types of steroids, “they include heart disease, cancer, or other damage to the liver, and damage to both males ' and females ' reproductive system” (Dixon, 247). Anabolic steroids affect an athlete both mentally and physically. The psychological damage one may have is an increased aggressiveness and sexual appetite, sometimes resulting in abnormal

The issues that surround the use of steroids among athletes raises much controversy and debate.  What most users tend to overlook are the dangers and risks of steroids.  One of the biggest problems with steroids is the fact that athletes only look at the immediate results, muscle and strength, and not at the long-term results that will damage their health.

     The last reason why drugs should be banned in sports is because of the many teenagers that are abusing them. According to the National Institutes of Health, a half- million kids under the age of 18 are abusing steroids. It seems that we’re raising a generation of individuals destined to be highly aggressive or severely depressed. Most teenagers do not know the effects that steroids can cause. They lower good cholesterol and raises bad cholesterol. That gives users a better risk

Performance Enhancing Drugs(PEDs) shouldn’t be used in sports, because of its adverse health consequences. According to an article called Performance-Enhancing Drugs Can Have Severe Long-Term Impact on Health: Expert, in the long term, PEDs can cause impotence, worsening acne, balding and “steroid rage.” This conveys that if athletes use PEDs there will be serious effects and severe consequence to their health. Also, the drugs aren't subject to government safety standards and could be impure or mislabeled.(Article: Performance-enhancing drugs: Know the risks?) Therefore, the illegal drugs and supplements that the athlete consume are dangerous, damaging and potentially deadly. The drug could be made out of something that gives you a disease or even kills you because it doesn’t meet the government safety