Steroids Should Not Be Banned

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Steroids have been very important and amused in most famous athlete’s lives today. Steroids are a very effective drug that helps build more strength than what your body can handle. Legalizing steroids in certain sports support young student athletes dominate other young athletes due to the strength, conditioning Anabolic steroids can be authorized by a doctor in the case of delayed puberty, cancer, or AIDS, but should never be self-prescribed. According to Steven Ungerleider, Steroids are dangerous, states that steroids are dangerous to a human body and should not be used just to have it built for the body: The need to win at all cost has permeated many areas of our lives. In sports, one of the forms it takes is the use of anabolic-androgenic …show more content…

If people take steroids but do not know how use it the right way, such as when they injecting steroids they could get HIV and blood borne infection also if they use a dirty needle. The national health professionals made a website on drug abuse so they could show the dangers of taking steroids has done to school age children. According to Dayn Perry, Steroid Use Does not Account for the Increase in Home Runs Hit by Professional Baseball Players, baseball players had make it seem like it was okay to use steroids. Steroids is not a danger to athlete’s health or help the athletes to performance in their sport. Since the 1990s when baseball players use steroids the home runs had when up but steroids doesn't have that much of effect of the players hitting home runs it doesn't help the player to hit the ball ( Perry 1). There are many players that had use steroids but has not seen an improvement in their game. The House Government Reform Committee of baseball had criticized about drug testing and the impact of steroids use in teenagers. Also the baseball committee stated that the baseball policy has a lot of holes and to make a strict drug test policies if the sport initiate its own. The committee members started to ask question about Mark McGwire retirement about “achieving unprecedented power” ( Preface to 'Steroids in Sports 1). Let's stop trying to banned steroids and let athletes use it just “under a doctor’s supervision, to any pro or amateur adult athlete who wants them” ( Leroux 1). Athletes across sports use many different kind of “ performance enhancing techniques, substances, equipment, and training methods” so canceling out anabolic steroids because of antidrug just not because of medical issue ( Leroux 1). There has been many athletes that had use steroids like Olympic swimmer Rick DuMont but when they found out that he was took banned substance call cold medicine that he got over

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