Steroids Should Be Banned
When people talk about sports, it is common to talk about the teams or athletes or how enjoyable the game was. But what people often overlook is the serious issue of Performance-Enhancing Drugs, or PEDs, that give great athletes an advantage. PEDs are drugs that can give athletes an advantage in a sport and are often abused by many athletes for this reason. However, PEDs can be dangerous because of the harm that it can cause to the athletes that use steroids. Performance-Enhancing Drugs should be banned from sports as it gives athletes an unfair advantage against other athletes, they can cause harmful side effects, and they can lead to health issues.
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The side effects of these steroids can be very dangerous and is a huge issue in sports. Dr. William Mitchell, an orthopedic surgeon and a former contributor to The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine says, “Rage, depression, severe acne and baldness... Less widely circulated are the more severe repercussions of chronic use, like liver abnormalities and tumors, heart and circulatory impairment, cholesterol risk…”. Mitchell explains that PEDs can cause many harmful side effects that can affect them in a short amount of time as well as later in life. The side effects of PEDs will hurt you throughout the course of using them, and having an advantage in a sport is not worth the dangers of these steroids. Alex Hutchinson, a Canadian runner in the world cross country championships and writes for the newspaper The Globe and Mail says, “You'll have to dope just to get to the professional level, at which point you'll have doctors supervising your red blood cell count and so on. So it's the kids who will be most at risk, forced to dope just to reach the level where doping can be done 'safely.'". If kids decide to use PEDs then they will experience harmful side effects just to get to the professional level. If PEDs continue to be used in sports, more harm will be done. PEDs need to be banned to prevent these side effects so that the athletes can be harm free and not risk anything for a
PEDs should be banned as they give athletes an unfair advantage in sports because of how …show more content…
The side effects of these steroids can be very dangerous and is a huge issue in sports. Dr. William Mitchell, an orthopedic surgeon and a former contributor to The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine says, “Rage, depression, severe acne and baldness... Less widely circulated are the more severe repercussions of chronic use, like liver abnormalities and tumors, heart and circulatory impairment, cholesterol risk…”. Mitchell explains that PEDs can cause many harmful side effects that can affect them in a short amount of time as well as later in life. The side effects of PEDs will hurt you throughout the course of using them, and having an advantage in a sport is not worth the dangers of these steroids. Alex Hutchinson, a Canadian runner in the world cross country championships and writes for the newspaper The Globe and Mail says, “You'll have to dope just to get to the professional level, at which point you'll have doctors supervising your red blood cell count and so on. So it's the kids who will be most at risk, forced to dope just to reach the level where doping can be done 'safely.'". If kids decide to use PEDs then they will experience harmful side effects just to get to the professional level. If PEDs continue to be used in sports, more harm will be done. PEDs need to be banned to prevent these side effects so that the athletes can be harm free and not risk anything for a