It is amazing what athletes will do to achieve higher levels of performance and to get an edge on the rivaled competition. Often people do not realize the long term effects that result from the decisions they make early in life. Steroids became a world wide exposure to athletes in the Olympics and other major sporting events during the 1950's. "This use of steroids among athletes became apparent when Canadian sprint runner Ben Johnson tested positive for steroid use after winning the gold medal for the 100 meter dash during the 1988 Olympics"(Cowley and Brant 32). Now, a skinny fifteen year old can walk down to the local gym and find sellers to obtain the drug that will make him the idol of all his classmates.
Many athletes want to use steroids in the sports that they compete in so that they gain an unfair advantage by accelerating the growth of muscle tissue.
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Several large buckets of anabolic steroid vials co...Even though steroids are usually banned, many athletes still use steroids in all kinds of sports. Using steroids may give an athlete a physical advantage over his fellow competitors, but steroids are harmful in future aspects. Being such an attractive drug, as shown in the analogy above, and seeming harmless to the unaware user, steroids can have potentially hazardous effects: Consistently, new and experienced users have no knowledge of the dangerous consequences steroids can have on their minds and bodies. Although steroids cause minimal deaths in society, banning steroids is purely justified because steroids have extremely perilous side effects on the unsuspecting user. Steroids should be banned, because the use of steroids on any male or female for competition is like the abuse an anorexic or bulimic person does to their body; physical betterment at the potential cost of health.
Anorexia and bulimia are truly complex disorders...