The steroids that are used by athletes are formally known as anabolic steroids. These steroids affect the user's body in both a fast way and long term. And there are different affects for both male and female. Yet, there are some that they share. Predominantly in men there is a reduction in sperm production, impotence, and irreversible breast enlargement. Women develop characteristics that men have. Women decrease in breast size. Their voices deepen along with more growth of body hair. These characteristics in men and women occur physically and not

iceably (Internet1). I notice these characteristics in the women of the World Wrestling Federation. Sometimes I even get them confused with their competitors who are mostly men. However, both sexes can have liver cysts and liver cancer by using steroids. Along with the great possibility of having a heart attack, aggression, and AIDS can be other consequences of using steroids (Internet 1).

Steroid use is unfair to the average moral athlete. It takes a drug to enhance a person's muscle mass. Whereas an average athlete will train and lift weights to gain that kind of muscle mass. If steroids were good for an athlete and it was fair to the game, then it wouldn't be a big issue. People might say that there are many athletes that use steroids and still get away with it. "However a man, named Wade Exum, possesses a list of athletes who had tested positive for steroids but were never punished" (Cazeneuve, 25). So even if an athlete is taking steroids and getting away with it, it might just come back and haunt them someday. "The ultimate reward of the athlete must be the knowledge that he or she has achieved personal perfection" without the use of an enhancement drug to cheat themselves (Davies and Thomas, 159). "It is better to remain poor in the field events than achieve artificial results through doping" (Davies and Thomas, 106). These quotes sum up my ideas that athletes have to use good morals. If it's morally wrong to cheat, then it is morally wrong to take steroids.

Something that I didn't think of was the chance of catching AIDS from needles used to inject the steroids. I have always thought of steroids as being in a pill form. But it can be taken "orally, injected, and in some cases there is also a rub on cream" (Internet 2). I think that the risks of using steroids outweigh the result of muscle mass obtained by taking this drug. Another problem with this drug isn't just whether athletes use the drug or not, the problem comes with the side affects. And when the people using steroids decide that they want to quit there is another bunch of side affects just to stop. Just to stop taking steroids a person has to go through affects on their body that can be worse than the side affects of taking them, "like sudden changes in attitude, loss of appetite, trouble falling asleep, and depression. Depression that occurs during this time of withdrawal can stay with the ex-user for years if it's not treated" (Internet 2).

"An estimated $100 million dollars are spent by athletes for steroids" (Wadler and Hainline, 61) In the Olympics, "steroids were banned beginning in 1975 but athletes weren't tested until the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976" (Yesalis, 50). "At th

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