Consequences of Steroids in Sports
Every year high school, college, and professional athletes try to get just "a little bigger,""a little stronger," and to increase the amount of weights they lift by, "just a few pounds." To achieve these goals athletes often turn to anabolic steroids to aid them in achieving their goals. Anabolic steroids are a quick, but dangerous way to increase muscle mass, and they can carry many risks including some life threatening side affects. Years after taking steroids athletes can live to have serious heart problems, sterility, or possibly not even live, all because of foolish decisions they made in the past. These potentially fatal drugs are not widely known by young athletes at all, because they don't know about the risks that can go along with them. In school, every student is taught about marijuana, cocaine,heroin, sex, liquor, and all those other health risks, but they're never taught about "rhoids" or "juice." (slang words for steroids) That should be changed, because it is known that student athletes often use steroids, not knowing the risks. Many times they take the risk because they hear about professional athletes taking steroids. But, despite their widespread use in sports, steroids can have more negative than positive effe
and SGPT, can be found in the blood stream. Liver damage is often tested for by finding the amount of these chemicals in their blood stream, which shows that they have major drugs may or may not work, and often you can find insterile needles being used from these labs. Athletes think that certain drugs can prevent side effects of steroids, but what they don't realize is that these drugs carry side effects of their own. (Yesalis, 1993) affects depends on the length of time the drug has been abused and the amount of the drug taken. The effects on the male sexual organs can be broken down into two categories. The effects due to impaired pituitary genital feedback, and the affects due to an increase in the users experience an increase in sex drive and male patter baldness during the period of time they are using steroids. Most female athletes don't mind these side effects during the time that they're using steroids, because metal attitude changes caused by steroids. It's only after the steroids usage is stopped that "the body changes become intolerable." (Internet site B) is decreased. In several cases, blood filled pockets open in the liver as a result of steroid use. This can lead to death. (Wright, 1990) Some of the worst side effects caused by steroids are not physical, rather, they're behavioral and physiological. Behavioral effects are much harder to test for because they're very random and depend on the person who is taking steroids. Because of this, Steroid use is also very high in the NFL. The drug is thought to have been introduced in the league in 1963 by Alvin Roy, a weight lifter / football coach. He allegedly gave his team little pink pills (Dianabol) with their dinner, and they were fined if they didn't eat them. Roy left his team, the Kansas City Chiefs, who quickly amassed the largest offensive and defensive lines in the league. Through trades and by word of mouth, the use of steroids spread throughout the whole NFL. The famous "Steel Curtain" (Pittsburgh Stealers defensive line in the mid-late 1970's) has been accused of steroid use
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