Rebuttal Article “Why it’s time to legalize steroids in professional sports” written by Chris Smith of Forbes Magazine argues that to level the playing field of professional sports it would be beneficial to legalize the use of performance enhancing drugs. Mr. Smith’s ideals that professional sports would be a fairer‚ more entertaining version of itself if performance enhancing drugs were legal‚ is an incredibly irresponsible and impudent declaration. Mr. Smith states “The primary reason why performance
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“Some professional athletes use steroids and other drugs to gain a competitive advantage in their sport.”(Sprague) This shows that they are using substances that gives them the upperhand‚ like building muscles‚ in the sport without working hard like everyone else. Also‚ these performance enhancing drugs may damage your body horribly. According to the author‚ “Such substances have been known to cause death by heart attack in previously healthy users.”(Sprague) These steroid and other drugs can change many
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Alex Rodriguez‚ the highest paid player in the history of baseball‚ has finally come clean about his use of steroids in the last decade as part of an immunity deal with the Drug Enforcement Association. Although the All-Star third baseman had admitted to steroids use in the past‚ he had steadfastly denied using banned substances since he joined the New York Yankees in 2004. “All my years in New York have been clean‚” he told ESPN in 2009. (Howard). With this in mind‚ many people enjoy watching sports
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exposure of athletes using steroids has exploded into a phenomenon involving athletes all around the world. It has cheapened sports and cast doubt on the integrity of our athletes. Steroid use is not exclusive to professional sports. More and more college and high school athletes are beginning to use steroids for many of the same reasons that the pros do; to enhance performance‚ get an edge on the competition‚ and improve personal appearance. Non-medical use of anabolic steroids is illegal and banned
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Anabolic steroids is an article in which some scientist are trying to create awareness of the health risks and consequences that people can obtain if they use anabolic steroids. To support the ideas and concepts‚ the author interviewed different specialist who chemically explained the different reactions in our bodies caused by different types of anabolic steroids such as Androstenedione. He also wrote different about known of using anabolic steroids and how these affected their careers. The author
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life? Would you take it then? Probably not. However‚ you would be surprised by how many people say yes to both questions. In the past three decades‚ anabolic steroids have been a very serious problem throughout the athletic field (Budak). It is reported that over three million athletes and body builders alone have used steroids. Anabolic steroids are drugs that include testosterone‚ the male sex hormone and estrogen‚ the female sex hormone. The word anabolic comes from the Greek word “anabole” which
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Banning Anabolic Steroids It has been speculated for many years that some professional athletes were using performance enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids. The reason so many people were talking about this issue is the fact that all of the sudden there were quite a few players that were hitting many more homeruns than they had previously in their careers. The Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 22‚ 2004. This new law closed the
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Steroids Today Since anabolic steroids were introduced in the 1950s‚ athletes have been using them to increase muscle and athletic performance. Over the last 20 years steroid use in the general public has skyrocketed. Steroids are an illegal drug that mimics the effects of testosterone in the body. Our society has allowed anabolic steroids to become so widespread over the years by athletes at all levels of competition‚ from paid professional athletes to high school and junior high school performers
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Impact of Steroid Use Sports require much talent and skill to be played at the professional level. All athletes must work hard and practice often to get more proficient in their field of play. There are also some people who try to get by without putting in all the effort through the use of performance-enhancing drugs‚ which refers to steroids. The use of steroids is banned from professional sports‚ so why did several athletes use them? Most professional athletes abusing steroids utilized them to
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As time has evolved and science in medicine has grown‚ it seems that steroid use has become more and more popular amongst baseball players. We now find our baseball players in the "Steroids Era". Steroids help athletes become stronger and more muscular‚ which is clearly necessary when trying to make a home run. Many people believe that using steroids is considered cheating and nothing is more "Un-American" as cheating. Steroids didn ’t make it to baseballs banned substance list until 1991‚ and testing
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