Why Do Professional Athletes Use Steroids?
Daniel Yoo
Mrs. Knox
English IIII
12 November 2015
Use of Steroids in Sports There's lot of stories about professional athletes using enhancing performance drugs. Lot of athletes use drugs for their performance in the past and some athlete still use it now days. Drugs are usually turn to steroids, there are several types of steroids like anabolic steroids or corticosteroids, they are in same groups. Corticosteroids, cortisone or prednisone are drugs that you can get with doctors prescribe. Those drugs are for redness,soreness, swollen, or often painful especially as a reaction to injury or infection in your body. Corticosteroids are not like the anabolic steroids that people use …show more content…
Anabolic steroids are drugs that are possible to get only with prescription and are prescribed to treat a lot of things that cause a loss of lean muscle mass. Anabolic steroids are only for medical use. Major sports associations makes anabolic steroids illegal and blocked them. Steroids are taken in either pill or injections. The most widely recognized dosing is done in cycles of weeks or month, with short break between.this is called "cycling." "Stacking " suggests to the utilization of a few unique sorts of steroids in the mean time. "Pyramiding," includes gradually growing the number, the sum of recurrence of steroids to achieve a crest and after that steadily decreasing the sum and recurrence of the medication(Quinn). Professional athletes who use steroids can start having withdrawal when they stop using it. The symptoms include mood swings, depression, fatigue and irritability, loss of appetite, insomnia, and being aggressive. Depression make them want to end their life, if …show more content…
Steve Courson, previous offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he started using anabolic steroids that he experienced as a sophomore at the University of South Carolina in1974. When his college coach suggested he try anabolic steroids, the team doctor asked Carson about the drugs. " The team doctor asked no question. He simply took my blood pressure and gave me a prescription for 30 milligram of Dianabol." The university paid for the prescription for Courson(Adams24). The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) made anabolic steroids officially illegal in 1973, but they did not drug test the athletes until 1986. That year football players had been drug tested and twenty of them were positive. All of the players who were positive were banned from playing in postseason bowl games. every four year since 1898, the NCAA examination staff has taken secret review to find out about drug use in college
Mrs. Knox
English IIII
12 November 2015
Use of Steroids in Sports There's lot of stories about professional athletes using enhancing performance drugs. Lot of athletes use drugs for their performance in the past and some athlete still use it now days. Drugs are usually turn to steroids, there are several types of steroids like anabolic steroids or corticosteroids, they are in same groups. Corticosteroids, cortisone or prednisone are drugs that you can get with doctors prescribe. Those drugs are for redness,soreness, swollen, or often painful especially as a reaction to injury or infection in your body. Corticosteroids are not like the anabolic steroids that people use …show more content…
Anabolic steroids are drugs that are possible to get only with prescription and are prescribed to treat a lot of things that cause a loss of lean muscle mass. Anabolic steroids are only for medical use. Major sports associations makes anabolic steroids illegal and blocked them. Steroids are taken in either pill or injections. The most widely recognized dosing is done in cycles of weeks or month, with short break between.this is called "cycling." "Stacking " suggests to the utilization of a few unique sorts of steroids in the mean time. "Pyramiding," includes gradually growing the number, the sum of recurrence of steroids to achieve a crest and after that steadily decreasing the sum and recurrence of the medication(Quinn). Professional athletes who use steroids can start having withdrawal when they stop using it. The symptoms include mood swings, depression, fatigue and irritability, loss of appetite, insomnia, and being aggressive. Depression make them want to end their life, if …show more content…
Steve Courson, previous offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he started using anabolic steroids that he experienced as a sophomore at the University of South Carolina in1974. When his college coach suggested he try anabolic steroids, the team doctor asked Carson about the drugs. " The team doctor asked no question. He simply took my blood pressure and gave me a prescription for 30 milligram of Dianabol." The university paid for the prescription for Courson(Adams24). The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) made anabolic steroids officially illegal in 1973, but they did not drug test the athletes until 1986. That year football players had been drug tested and twenty of them were positive. All of the players who were positive were banned from playing in postseason bowl games. every four year since 1898, the NCAA examination staff has taken secret review to find out about drug use in college