Steroids

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There are many types of doping in sports, but the use of performance enhancing drugs has undermined and decreased the value of certain awards. Despite the many risks of these body altering drugs professional and underage users alike are trying to get an edge on the competition. One of the most effective associations for this situation is World Anti-Doping Agency. WADA was created to destruct doping all around the the world. They are fighting to keep it out of every sporting event and every sport alike; mostly for the Olympics. "the United States is now the biggest funder for this project and was just recently chosen to represent all forty-one regions of the Americas."

I believe that i would join this federal croup if i could; would love to bust a guy that's been cheating his way through sports and creating a bad example forr our young people. It has had a good lowering in the steroid use in the Olympics, but the professional sports are the main threat. This relates to my topic because the government has created to minimize the doping use in sports and to hopefully make it stop for good. I don't think kids can stand not being "good" enough to hit like Barry Bonds. They need to once and for all stop the use of drugs in sports.

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/PREVENT/sports/index.html

The movie, Bigger, Faster, Stronger, written by Chris bell, Deals with another realm of drug abuse: the use of steroids by athletes. For far too long now, drug abuse has been pretty much narrowed down to illegal street drugs (Heroin, Cocaine, etc) or prescription drugs. Bell tells of himself and his two other brothers, raised in a good home with loving parents, that chooses to bulk up by using metabolic steroids (such as the kind that way too many athletes are/have been using for far too long). Bell tries to understand just why people have to use these substances.



This movie showed a lot of the real steroid problems and issues that everyday people have with it. It also shows the thought of doing the drug just because someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger. This film shows the effects of performance enhancing drugs up close and personal. I think every athlete should watch this movie and then see what life with steroids is really like, and then ask them what they think about using something to get by without doing any work to achieve it.

Bell, Chris, Dir. Bigger, Faster, Stronger. BSF Films: 2008, Film.

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Steroids in high-school have become an increasingly hot topic in both the media as well as at various levels of the government. In 1988, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined Anabolic Steroid use patterns among the male students. In this study, overall participation rate on a school-wide basis was 68.7% and on an individual basis was approximately half (just over 50%). According to the survey, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, steroid use among high school students more than doubled between 1991 and 2003. Slightly over 6% of 15,000 students surveyed admitted trying steroid pills or injections. This is telling us how much it is really being tried be the average high-school male. They Look up to the main source of all sports and where they learned the game as a kid, by watching the guys on television and see what they do to be so good.
((Sports Illustrated, June 2002, as told by Ken Caminiti)
This has many purposes to my topic because about 95% of all teenage boys that test with steroids in high-school are playing some sort of sport. I think the main reason they feel that they have to use these drugs is because they watch the professionals and think they can’t do as well as they do unless they get some help. I don’t think that students are getting much education about the affects of steroids and what it will do to you in the long run.

I had a interview with the ex-pro Baseball Player,who just so happens to be my hitting instructor, Terry Jones tells me that things can be done right with alot of discipline and hard work. Him being in the Majors during the Steroid Era is pretty interesting because he said it was very exciting, and also kind of intimidating. He always says,"if you cant do it naturally don't do it at all." He explained that some of the guys taking the steroids did it to relieve pressure. And some did it to live up to there big million dollar contracts, and that they were worried about not performing there best. He also told me that the guys that took steroids were probably being given to them by there trainer, because some of the ball clubs that these players worked for actually let them take them because it would draw a huge crowd to each game. As long as they were producing, nobody had a problem with it.

The steroids of that time was making the balls jump off the bats faster than ever, and it was hard to try and keep up with all of that hype. I feel that he's right and that the steroids helped alot of people get through the season and helped them make a lot of records that they would soon lose. But i disagree with the ball teams giving them the steroids just so that they can have more fans come to the games. That's selfish, and it really showed that they didn't care about the players health at all because steroids have a long term affect on people.interaction= Terry Jones phone number,......205-706-9045

In the novel, Drugs in Sports, by Edward F. Dolan, he talks about drugs and how they have been used all throughout the world for many thousands of years. But we’ve never had such perfected and well working drugs such as the ones that are used in today’s sporting events. These consist of pain killers, sedatives, balms, anabolic steroids, and amphetamines. The pain killers are for an athlete that has suffered minor injury and is supposed to get him back on his feet. But the anabolic steroids enhance every aspect of your game; it helps with agility, quickness, strength, the whole nine yards. But it causes major problems with the hard and liver and other vital organs. Misuse of a drug can occur after an athlete obtains a legal substance from a doctor to take to aid him or her in their training. The athlete then wants more and more of the drug, all with the idea that a greater benefit will come. But the doctor, knowing the hazards of the increased use says no. so the athlete turns to other sources, could be friends, team mates, even the illegal drug market. Free of medical supervision the drug is almost always taken in greater quantities and in larger doses. Just like when Barry Lorge says, “Athletes for generations have been searching for that elusive can of spinach like from Popeye,” (4).

I think this makes very much since because I never just thought that the player’s trainers or coaches gave them the substances. I mean, I’m sure there are some people out there that get that stuff form there trainers and coaches but this makes it easier to understand the mindset that the athletes have when they are making that decision to do the illegal drugs or not, and how and where they can obtain it. I also never knew how many drugs were in sports; I thought it was just steroids. Some of those drugs I’ve never even heard of; we might be able to help them and ourselves and fellow young athletes that could be on the brink of using to teach more about this stuff because I have never been taught anything about drugs or steroids.

I can also not understand why someone would want to put themselves through that kind of torture for just a little bit of help on a GAME! It’s just a game people, it’s not like its life or death here. The sports we play are supposed to be for fun and recreation not to show off and to be the best at it, but if you want to be the best; be the best by not cheating. Otherwise if you’re the best while on steroids, then you’re actually the best liar and cheater; not the best athlete. I also think that people that use these body altering drugs maybe have had a rough life, maybe like they never felt like they fit in, or that they didn’t feel good enough so now they had to be the best by cheating. But really what are you risking here; the most cherished thing you have, your life.

Dolan, Edward. Drugs In Sports. Franklin Watts, 1988. 4-100. Print.

Many Baseball Players such as Barry Bonds has been accused of using performance inhancing drugs. if you look at pictures from earlier in his career; it's ridiculous the changes he has made through his career. He has been the focus of many steroid accusations in baseball. He is also the poster boy of the steroid era in baseball today. As you may know he had beat Hank Aarons homeruns at seven-hundred sixty-two. steroid use in sports is not new, some steroids had started back in the ancient greek times.

Looking at this evidence of steroid use, you might think hey, why cant i do that? Well considering that most of the well known and great players of the game has used steroids you can really only do as good as they do while using steroids. Still, this is cheating, i dont understand the good in doing well if its not really you thats doing the hitting, or the fielding, or the throwing, etc..We need to crack down harder on the steroid concequences in sports. The comissioner has made the first offence a sixty day suspension. The second time is a one-hundred day suspension. And the third time a complete bann from the game of baseball. Hopefully someone can create something to make the great game of baseball a clean game again.