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.

An Easy Answer?

Is steroids an easy answer to your problems? Yea, come on, all it'll do is make you huge right? Who doesn't want to look good in front of a mirror? This is whats wrong with some youth, they want to look,"insanley huge like the action figures,"(pg.9). Just like women sometimes conform to cultural images of physicality; males also experience feelings of insecurrety because of their physical appearance. In the human body steroids act as hormones. When steroids attach to steroid receptor proteins, cells adapt to fight stress, promote growth, and bring on puberty, the stage where people can become sexually active. The side-affects are the most thing you should be worried about instead of the gain. In males, u can have reduced sexual function and temporary infertility, testicular atrophy, and pain when urinating.

This pertains to my subject because many of the athletes inthe world have at some point in their life has taken a substance to help them get bigger and stronger. But most of these substances are pure protein, this is legal, you can get it at your local GNC. I take this protein shake that my dad makes me drink and so far i have gained fifteen pounds of muscle. But you know there is always those people that want to do more. They do the ilegal thing and bring steroids into there sport, most common in the professional sports. Like Baseball, Football, etc.

Walker, Ida. Pumped up and Dangerous. Pennsylvania: Mason Crest Publisher Inc., 2008. 9-27. print.

Are Steroids really that bad for you? I mean if they make you so muscular and boost your athletic ability, how can they not do anything but help you? What exactly is so bad about Steroids? There are two different types of steroids, anabolic steroids and Corticosteroids. Anabolic Steroids are the steroids that athletes use to enhance their playing ability to make them better at the game that there playing. These are called testosterone, a male hormone. But both men and women produce testosterone. Having too much testosterone can throw someones body way out of wack. "There are a lot of side effects of steroids," Mautner tells WebMD. "They are not good for you. It is like Russian roulette. Five people may take them and have no long-term problem. The sixth may end up dead."

This is important to my life and the life of my generation because we see all the time in major league sports that professional athletes abuse these drugs. Naturally, us not being as good as the pros wants us to become like them. they inspire us to grow our bodies and to do all we can to be as good as they are. But we cant always do what they do, they make mistakes too. Steroids are very dangerous, they can cause baldness, yellowing of the skin, tendon rupture, heart attacks, liver disease, etc. This is a serious issue that someone has to control because we have too much influence in our lives to be making these dumb decisions.


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