Steriods

I believe that anabolic steroids are undermining the athletic world. Young athletes look up to their favorite sports stars and want to be just like them when they grow up, so are they telling the younger athletes to take steroids? I believe they have a major influence on the number of youth who are taking steroids who want to make it to the professional level. Steroids are a very dangerous drug to such ignorant populous such as young athletes to be exposed to.

While anabolic steroids can enhance certain types of performance or appearance, they are dangerous drugs, and when used inappropriately, they can cause a host of severe, long-lasting, and often irreversible negative health consequences. These drugs can stunt the height of growing adolescents, masculinize women, and alter sex characteristics of men. Anabolic steroids can lead to premature heart attacks, strokes, liver tumors, kidney failure and serious psychiatric problems.

Too many steroids

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The main threat to such young adults is that it will hurt their growth, "Anabolic steroids can halt growth prematurely in adolescents."What happens is that steroids close the growth centers in a kid's bones", says Dr. Wadler. "Once these growth plates are closed, they cannot reopen so adolescents that take too many steroids may end up shorter than they should have been." (ESPN) So there may be a whole generation of shorter adult if this keeps trend influences the vast youth athletes.

With the use of steroids comes the use of a syringe and if you share the syringe comes the chance of contracting HIV. "Athletes who share needles to inject steroids also are at risk for serious infections including Hepatitis B."(AAP) There could be a larger number of outbreaks of such viruses and diseases with the direct increase of steroid use. HIV is already an deadly problem in...