Steroid Use

Paper Summary:

This research paper explores questions such as what are steroids, the types of steroids, who uses steroids, the effect it has on people's body and minds, risks involved in taking steroids, and signs that people are using them. It also narrates examples of professional athletes in professional football, and baseball who have used steroids and how the drug has affected them.

Table of Contents:
Section I. Introduction
Section II. Review of Literature
Controversies of the Sports World
Tough Choices: A Book about Substance Abuse
Use of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids in Adolescence: Winning, Looking Good or Being Bad
Athletes and Steroids: Playing a Deadly Game
Anabolic Steroid Abuse
Admissions Before BALCO Grand Jury Detailed
Romanowski: I Broke RB's Finger, Took Steroids, Damaged Brain
The Demonization of Anabolic Steroids I: What Makes These Hormones So Evil
Section III. Summary and Conclusion
What are Steroids
Types of Steroids
Who Uses Steroids
Reasons for Steroid Abuse
Performance Enhancement in Sports
Increasing Muscle Size
Problem Behavior
How Are Anabolic Steroids Used?

From the Paper:

"Putnam discusses the dangers of using steroids but also presents the alternative view of some people who argue that performance-enhancing drugs should be permitted in sports. Supporters of steroid use in sports, although small in number, argue that athletes are fully entitled to seek competitive advantages over their opponents and use of steroid is akin to using better equipment, better coaches, or better training programs. They also contend that the harmful side effects of steroids have been exaggerated. The author sees a subtle trend of leniency towards drug use by sport authorities and believes that drug use in sports would continue as long as medical science makes such performance enhancing drugs available (pp. 124-126)."

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