Anabolic Steroids

Steroids

Probably one of the biggest stories in the news today is steroids in Major League Baseball. This is one of the reasons that I chose to do my research paper on steroids. I knew that it would not be hard to find information on the issue. I also needed to have a topic that relates to my service learning project. This is helping coach a high school track and field team. And as you will read later, I talk about steroids with high school athletes. I also wanted to improve my knowledge on the subject, so that if I ever did have a conversation with someone about the issue, I would be educated enough to have an argument, if it came to that. I am also a fan of baseball, so I was just interested in what steroids can all do for you, and what the side effects are. And actually in my research I have found some of the side effects to be pretty interesting.

First I will talk about the effects of steroids. Now contrary to many people's believes there are steroids that are good for you too. So I will talk about the advantages of them first. You always hear steroids are illegal unless they are prescribed. Well when they are actually prescribed. Steroids can come in a variety of medications. I personally have used steroids in a lotion that was designed to protect against dry skin. All that it simply is a stronger medication that you are not able to get over the counter. There are also contraceptive steroids or birth control. They are called steroid releasing implants. The implant is inserted under the skin. It slowly releases the steroid, which prevents conception. So there are actually steroids that are designed to help you. And most of the time these types of steroids have no negative of long term side effects. If they did your doctor would not prescribe them to you. It is when you get into the anabolic steroids is when you start getting those negative long term side effects that you always hear about the football players and the body builders have.

In the dictionary anabolic steroid is defined as this: A group of synthetic hormones that promote the storage of protein and the growth of tissue, sometimes used by athletes to increase muscle size and strength. Now after reading that there doesn’t seem there’s anything wrong with anabolic steroids. You may think why don’t all athletes take them if they can get an edge. It does not say anything bad about them. N...

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...stars and TV how about the parents taking some responsibility.

One thing people might ask is “how can you buy steroids if they are illegal.” Well that question can pretty much be answered in one word, and that word is “internet.” All you have to do is do a search and it will bring up many anti-steroid sites and sites that inform you about the dangers of them. But there is a very big amount that also sells them, and tells you that there is nothing wrong with them. There are also many magazines, I actually signed up for a free issue hoping that it would help me with this paper, but it did not arrive in time. But I’m sure that it is very easy to order them out of the magazines also.

In conclusion I think I made it pretty obvious that anabolic steroids are bad for you, but I also wanted to show that whenever you hear the word “steroids” you can not automatically think bad and illegal, because there are steroids out there that help you and are good for you. Pretty much all that I wanted to do was to educate you the reader and myself about the subject of steroids. We always hear about them but never really know what they are about. Well now we both have a better understanding.