Anabolic Androgenic Steroids Is A Huge Problem Among Today...

Charles M. Menne Composition Mrs. Vidden 14 January 2015 Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Abuse in Professional Sports Anabolic-androgenic steroids are a huge problem amongst today’s athletes. The use of these drugs has been around for many years in sports. Understanding anabolic-androgenic steroids and why people take them is needed in the process of trying to eliminate them from professional sports. Also, players knowing and understanding how the negatives of anabolic-androgenic steroid use outweigh the positives will hopefully help new players who are looking for an edge on the competition to refrain from the use of anabolic-androgenic steroids. Along with the harmful side effects players can experience from anabolic-androgenic steroid abuse, it also hurts the integrity of professional sports as a whole. Allowing players access to intervention programs and treatment can help to curb the widespread use of AAS. My goal in this paper is to show what anabolic-androgenic steroids are, why they impact sports in a negative way, and why they give professional athletes an unfair advantage and shouldn’t be a factor in sports. Anabolic-androgenic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs has always been a forbidden thing in sports, but have just recently come into the spotlight again. According to Machado and Cortez-Pinto, â€Å"Anabolic–androgenic steroids are synthetic derivatives of testosterone, the main male sex hormone† (280). Athletes mainly take anabolic-androgenic steroids toShow MoreRelatedEssay on Use of Steroids in Baseball4327 Words   |  18 PagesUse of Steroids in Baseball Since Major League Baseball all-star Ken Caminiti openly admitted to Sports Illustrated to have used steroids during his career, steroid use as a muscle and performance enhancer has been uncovered and become a big issue Major League Baseball is wrestling with. The â€Å"ongoing and delicate subject, baseball’s dirty, little secret that is no secret anymore,† is a huge and growing problem (Curry B20). Now that light has been shed on the issue, critics are beginning toRead MoreDrugs Are Bad Or Bad?2007 Words   |  9 PagesDrugs are bad, Mmkay? What doesn t kill us makes us stronger right? Well that s what athletes of this generation believe. They think if steroids or human growth hormones don t kill us and cause us to become stronger then it s totally worth it. Performance enhancement drugs are very harmful to a person s body and can cause huge Problems in an individual s life. Someone can have just a hint of these substances in their system from that time they tore a muscle and needed that edge to come back