Steroids causes alot of harm to athletes, not just physically but mentally as it impacted professional athletes careers, families, and even lives of others along with themselves.
Lives of Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Lyle Alzado, Lance Armstrong along with many more. The cause and effect of four types of anabolic steroids, along with the type of groups these steroids have affected. Started in the 1930’s …show more content…
There is a program called (ATLAS) which stands for The Adolescents and Training to Avoid Steroids. Which benefits as it reduced the abuse of alcohol along with drugs like marijuana, along with the desire to less likely to use it. The ATLAS program is also with ATHENA and both are partnered with the Efrain Anthony Marrero Foundation, which is a non profit organization due to the memory of Efrain who took away his life three weeks after using steroids. The ATLAS program is a 7 week course where coaches and peer educators teach young male high school athletes about steroids. The physical effects along with mental effects which go towards long and short term effects of steroids, the program benefits athletes in other ways to build up shape inside their bodies as they do specific body workout which will develop the players instead of using a life causing