Steroid Use In Sports

The amount of drug use in sports, especially baseball is unimaginable. “Estimates of steroid use have varied wildly. Jose Canseco estimated that 85% of major leaguers were also using steroids”(“Steroids-BR…”). Professional athletes must be drug tested multiple times throughout their season because the drugs that they are using could have poor physical and mental effects on their body, these drugs give an unfair advantage to those who are using the performance enhancing drugs and if these players get tested and their result is positive they could potentially lose their jobs. You would not want to see your favorite player lose their job or serve any game suspensions, would you?
Using drugs in sports should not be taken lightly. “Wild mood swings, depression, anxiety, paranoia, violence. Decrease in pleasure in everyday life. Complication of mental illness. Hallucinations. Confusion.Psychological tolerance to the drug's effects creating a desire to do ever-increasing amounts of the drug. Desire to engage in risky behavior” (“effects of drug addiction…”).These are all very negative effects that can change an athlete completely to where they are not even the same person. There are also many negative physical effects that steroids have on an athlete's body. “Anabolic steroid abuse has been associated with a wide range of adverse side effects ranging from …show more content…
If you were one of these players would you do these dug now? Knowing that they will be drug tested several times will decrease the amount of players who are willing to cheat because now they will not have the