Where Has Real Sports Players Gone?
...the sport? When you do hear about it on the news or ESPN it is always on the negative side of the issue. The continuing debate is if they should legalize performance enhancing drugs/steroids. Everyone is involved when performance enhancing drugs come into play, coaches, players, owners, league officials and even the fans. All these people play a very big role in the sports world today. Legalizing performance enhancement drugs in sports will ruin the nature of the game being played. Performance-enhancing/Steroid drug use should be banned in sports because it can result in many physical, mental and behavioral damages, and it takes away the talent of the player and puts it into the performance enhancing drug. What kind of role model do we want for our kids to grow up with?
Performance enhancing drugs are most likely to cause physical, mental and behavioral damages. If the athlete is taking an anabolic steroid the following are the types of physical side affects of the steroid. It can cause in men, reduced sperm count, impotence, and development of breasts, shrinking of the testicles and difficulty or pain while urinating. In woman it can cause facial hair growth, deepened voice, breast reduction and menstrual cycle changes. In both men and woman it can cause, acne, bloated appearance, rapid weight gain, clotting disorders, liver damage, premature heart attacks and strokes, elevated cholesterol levels and weakened tendons. The anabolic steroids can cause the athlete to have mood severe mood swings, according to Dr. Gary Wadler of New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Wadler says "They can go
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from bouts of depression or extreme irritability to feelings of invincibility and outright aggression, commonly called roid rage. This is a...
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