Illegal Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs In Professional Sports and Competitions
Even though some people believe that Performance Enhancing Drugs are beneficial to the users, PED 's have extremely bad consequences and should not be allowed in professional sports. Athletes use Performance Enhancing Drugs for short-term use whenever they compete in professional competitions. Competitors use these drugs in times of their athletic career to get an edge over other competitors. But these people taking the drugs do not know or understand the true effects of using these drugs and they do not care at this moment of fame. Performance enhancing drugs allow users to train harder and longer without injuring themselves. People also use PED 's to …show more content…
The players use these drugs in cycles or a schedule of use and when Performance Enhancing Drugs testing periods come around, the athletes stop taking the drug in order to let the drugs leave their system. Studies indicate that some supplements change into illegal steroids once they 're taken into the body. The drugs users use can take anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks to leave their systems. Some athletes use Performance Enhancing Drugs in the form of steroids. Most users use anabolic-androgen steroids or just anabolic steroids. These drugs increase the users muscle mass and strength. The main anabolic steroid produced by your body is testosterone. Another technique of cheating is that athletes can take straight testosterone, which boosts their performance. Frequently, the anabolic steroids that users use are synthetic modifications of testosterone. Cheaters also can use dietary supplements, which are advertised as having the same effects as prescription-only performance-enhancing drugs. These performance-enhancing drugs are easy to buy and athletes are drawn to them. At first, a chain of vitamin stores didn 't want to stock Androstenedione, but shortly after Mark McGwire confessed to using the drug during his record-breaking season, it became the must have ingredient in cheating. Another dangerous class of anabolic steroids is designer drugs. Designer drugs are synthetic …show more content…
Men who use anabolic steroids may develop prominent breasts, they may experience baldness, their testicles may shrink, their semen may not be fertile anymore, may not be able to sustain an erection, and their prostate gland may enlarge. Women may also experience physical changes after using anabolic steroids. These changes consist of possible change in their voices deepening in tone, a possible enlargement of their clitoris, an increase in body hair, may experience balding, and infrequent or absent menstrual cycles. Women and men both experience some of the same changes after using these drugs. Users may experience severe acne on their skin, an increase of the risk of tendinitis, rupturing of tendons, abnormalities of their livers, tumors of the liver, an increase in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, a decrease in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high blood pressure, circulatory and heart problems, behaviors that are aggressive (rage or violence), psychiatric disorders such as depression, dependence of the drug they consume, infections or diseases such as HIV or Hepatitis if the user injects the drug, unnatural development and growth, and risk of future health problems in offspring. "Supplement use has been linked to the deaths of several athletes, who exceeded the recommended dosages or mixed their intake of supplements with other
Even though some people believe that Performance Enhancing Drugs are beneficial to the users, PED 's have extremely bad consequences and should not be allowed in professional sports. Athletes use Performance Enhancing Drugs for short-term use whenever they compete in professional competitions. Competitors use these drugs in times of their athletic career to get an edge over other competitors. But these people taking the drugs do not know or understand the true effects of using these drugs and they do not care at this moment of fame. Performance enhancing drugs allow users to train harder and longer without injuring themselves. People also use PED 's to …show more content…
The players use these drugs in cycles or a schedule of use and when Performance Enhancing Drugs testing periods come around, the athletes stop taking the drug in order to let the drugs leave their system. Studies indicate that some supplements change into illegal steroids once they 're taken into the body. The drugs users use can take anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks to leave their systems. Some athletes use Performance Enhancing Drugs in the form of steroids. Most users use anabolic-androgen steroids or just anabolic steroids. These drugs increase the users muscle mass and strength. The main anabolic steroid produced by your body is testosterone. Another technique of cheating is that athletes can take straight testosterone, which boosts their performance. Frequently, the anabolic steroids that users use are synthetic modifications of testosterone. Cheaters also can use dietary supplements, which are advertised as having the same effects as prescription-only performance-enhancing drugs. These performance-enhancing drugs are easy to buy and athletes are drawn to them. At first, a chain of vitamin stores didn 't want to stock Androstenedione, but shortly after Mark McGwire confessed to using the drug during his record-breaking season, it became the must have ingredient in cheating. Another dangerous class of anabolic steroids is designer drugs. Designer drugs are synthetic …show more content…
Men who use anabolic steroids may develop prominent breasts, they may experience baldness, their testicles may shrink, their semen may not be fertile anymore, may not be able to sustain an erection, and their prostate gland may enlarge. Women may also experience physical changes after using anabolic steroids. These changes consist of possible change in their voices deepening in tone, a possible enlargement of their clitoris, an increase in body hair, may experience balding, and infrequent or absent menstrual cycles. Women and men both experience some of the same changes after using these drugs. Users may experience severe acne on their skin, an increase of the risk of tendinitis, rupturing of tendons, abnormalities of their livers, tumors of the liver, an increase in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, a decrease in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high blood pressure, circulatory and heart problems, behaviors that are aggressive (rage or violence), psychiatric disorders such as depression, dependence of the drug they consume, infections or diseases such as HIV or Hepatitis if the user injects the drug, unnatural development and growth, and risk of future health problems in offspring. "Supplement use has been linked to the deaths of several athletes, who exceeded the recommended dosages or mixed their intake of supplements with other