Should Anabolic Steroids Be Banned

What is a drug? A drug is anything that is administered in the body that alters the body physically or psychologically (not including food and water.) Steroids are the most popular drug used in sports but almost all drugs (other than drugs prescribed to help you) have several negative effects on your health. Steroids are drugs used to enhance performance mostly in athletics. Another type of this drug is anabolic steroids. The reason these drugs are so popular is because it makes the body stronger and more muscular. Although steroids are already dangerous for adults they are more severe in minors/teen usage because teens are still growing, this could cause long term damage and if used too much even death. 5% of teens use performance enhancing …show more content…
The side effects and risks of these drugs outweigh the positives of drugs so this is why I think they should not be used in athletics or any situation. The use of drugs in athletics is also not fair to the person you are competing against it’s like saying okay the soccer team of sixth graders is going to play a game against the soccer team of seniors I mean how is that fair. Also if the use of drugs were allowed in sports then everyone would do it and if everyone did it then everyone would be big in muscle and if everyone was big in muscle then everyone would still have the same chance at winning as before so what is the point in doing them in the first place. On average In the Olympics 1 out of every 100 participants are stripped of medals or suspended from the games. Meldonium is a performance enhancing drug banned recently from the Olympics because it brings higher amounts of oxygen to muscle tissue this helps with endurance which is key for an athlete to succeed. This rule was put in place in January 2016 by the WADA or the World Anti-Doping Agency. 150 athletes were suspended including star tennis player (who was number 1 at