Steroids in Athletes

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The paper explores how the use of anabolic steroids damages individuals' mental and general health. The paper also discusses how steroids go against the development of good character for athletes and everyone else. The paper asserts that athletes and other individuals should avoid the use of steroids despite the hard drive to professional success. The paper then contends that sports directors, other officials and parents can do a lot to effect a ban on anabolic steroids and stop the abusive use of these substances.

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"Steroids are a class of prescribed drugs, used to treat abnormally low amounts of testosterone, body wasting in the case of AIDS and other disease conditions involving loss of body mass (National Institute of Drug Abuse 2006). Anabolic steroids contain hormones or hormone-like substances, used to boost strength and muscle growth (Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence 1998). Steroids were first developed in Europe in the 30s to treat undernourished patients. They were also used for healing after surgery. Weightlifters began using them for competitions in the 50s in order to enhance their performance. The popularity and use of steroids thus spread among athletes throughout the world. Today, at least one in 15 male high school seniors in the US or half a million of them have used steroids."

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