Essay On Steroids In Professional Sports

Should Steroids be legalized in professional sports? Steroids are one of a large group of chemical substances classified by a specific carbon structure. There are several types of performance-enhancing drugs: anabolic steroids, stimulants, human growth hormone and supplements. The use of drugs to enhance performance in sports has occurred since the time of the original Olympic Games from 776 to 393 BC-2015.The origin of the word 'doping' is attributed to the Dutch word 'dope,' which is a viscous opium juice, the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks. Many sports associations are now involved in monitoring and testing players for banned PED use. An important issue regarding this topic, is whether steroids should be legalized in professional sports? The major arguments are the following: are steroids safe? Are the penalties fair and consistent? And are steroids beneficial? After careful examination, it will be proven that steroids should be illegal in all professional sports because of major health issues.

One major argument is weather are steroids safe to
If the testosterone production level is shut down, it may not return to normal after the steroids are taken. This claim is that there is no ‘safe’ dose of an anabolic steroid. If you continue to use steroids, despite health warnings or under your doctor’s advice you have a definite risk of having liver cancer but you can avoid the increase of getting liver cancer and other side effects. The use of steroids is moral because depending on how you take the steroids and the reason of use for them they can be safe to use far as certain medical conditions, steroids can be used to treat the muscle wasting in AIDS. But the use of steroids are unsafe just to improve performance ability because steroids are powerful hormones that can shut down the entire body due to the improper use for them. As a result the use of steroids are