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    It is the question professional athletes have to ask themselves everyday. Steroids, they are apart of our games today even while being banned. For fans, there is no downside to steroid usage, it makes the players bigger, better, faster, and stronger,allowing them to perform at their best and play longer. Many people see steroids as a bad thing, without knowing the benefits they can bring to the game. Legalizing steroids would make the fans and players happy, changing the game of sports in a good…

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    Cholesterol and steroids are lipids that are very important for your health.First off a steroid is a lipid because it is insoluble in water and are also hydrophobic.Cholesterol is a lipid because it is also a steroid but is mainly synthesized for your liver.Steroids are important for our bodies because it is a substance that is crucially important if you would like your body function properly.That’s why steroids and cholesterol are important for your body. A steroid is a certain type of an…

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    Using steroids to enhance the performance, and using narcotics to get high are not the same. That being said, in my opinion you can’t be criminalized, if you have possession of anabolic steroids. A legalized steroid would reduce the cheating in today’s sports and would increase competitiveness. For recreational purpose in medical is also useful, due to its immune boosting affects and building muscles (Mooney, 1995). We still can regulate steroids with close supervision of a…

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    We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat. (Lou Brock). That is why Doping damages the integrity of professional sports. There is a ongoing conflict about whether professional athletes should be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs. Because of the health concerns it has, doping damages the integrity of professional sports. Professional athletes should not use performance enhancing…

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    Steroids: In or Out of the Hall of Fame? Nowadays, usage of steroids in professional sports has become more common and causes more and more controversy. Zev Chafets, in his article, “Let Steroids into the Hall of Fame” goes against the modern baseball regulations and states that the players who use steroids should also be included in the group of most successful athletes in the USA. Chafets uses convincing arguments with solid examples to support his claim. His opinions on the idea that athletes…

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    Student athletes should just say “No!” People who take and use steroids can have serious side effects. For instance males can develop things such as breasts, shrinking of testicals, infertility, and male pattern baldness, and heart/liver problems. On the other hand women can develop things such as excessive growing of body hair and male pattern baldness, and heart/ liver problems . All student athletes should be drug tested before they are allowed to play sports because drug tests prevent…

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    anabolic steroids is not easy as they are not available at your local GNC. You have to know someone who has access to steroids, the truth is it is not hard to spot them as they are the biggest, most muscular, developed and fat free athletes in every field, will they help you get them is another story. Dianabol and deca durabolin are the most sought for steroids as their risk to benefit ratio is probably one of the highest, they are also easiest to find and one of most effective. Anabolic…

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    The use of anabolic-androgenic steroids in professional sports and in general is wrong. There are several health and reputational risks involved in taking these drugs. Everyday more and more teenagers are caught using these substances for their own purposes. Professional athletes and anyone else who uses them need to find a way to stop using anabolic-androgenic steroids. Anabolic-androgenic steroids include the male sex hormone testosterone and many of its synthetic derivatives (Harmer, 2010,…

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    Impact of Steroids Steroids are taken all over the world. Some steroids are given by doctors for medical purposes but some people, such as MLB players take steroids to gain an advantage over their competition. Steroids have been a problem in baseball ever since players have started using them as performance enhancers.Taking steroids as performance enhancers has been a problem for a while; back in the early days, Players used testosterone supplement that came from animal testicals (Carise).…

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    and health problems but instead uses it for advantages in sports. 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…

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