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Steroids

"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."

Anabolic steroids are a common way athletes use to try and gain an edge over their opponent. Anabolic steroids are not legal drugs, and they do have many dangerous side effects. Steroids have been around for a long time. The first reported uses of steroids were in the early to mid 1930s. However steroids were not introduced to the United Sates until the early 1950s. Now steroids are very common throughout high school athletics as long as college and professional athletics. Athletes get so competitive and caught up with success that they do whatever means necessary to maintain their competitive edge no matter what the consequences are. Steroids are illegal drugs containing excessive amounts of testosterone. In some cases, athletes use horse testosterone in which the steroids are for "horse use only". These steroids help horses gain and maintain muscle. Steroids are not social ably acceptable. No athlete should lower themselves to the means of taking steroids. Athletes should not be allowed to use anabolic steroids due to the potent


ial damage they pose for an athlete's body as well as the ethical concerns they raise regarding fairness in competition.

Steroids have a long history in the society of athletics. Steroids use goes way back to the late 1930s. Scientist began testing with steroids looking for dangers which come along with the usage of anabolic steroids. "In 1939 scientists suspected that the sex steroid hormones might improve physical or athletic performance." (Lukas 14) It wasn't until 1944 when scientist's first impression in 1939 was confirmed. The dangers of steroids took scientist 5 years to back up their original hypothesis about steroids. The Russians were the first people to use steroids for athletic competition. "The Russian weight lifters of the 1950s are credited with being the first athletes to compete internationally while using steroids."(Yesalis 17) Physicians for the United States weight lifting team reported the Russian weight lifters were using some type of testosterone to gain an edge on all of the other participants. Once the physicians returned to the United States, they began to try steroids. These steroids have massive amounts of testosterone, which help the United States weight lifters to become bigger an

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