Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports

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When people think of sports, people might wonder if the greatest people in sports used performance-enhancing drugs.
Steroids build mass and strength and increase tissue to boost endurance (Szumski 11). Athletes use drugs in sports to build mass and strengthen a person’s bones, increase oxygen intake, work tissues, help pain, stimulate a persons body, reduce a person weight, and to hide the fact that a person is using other drugs (Szumski 12). Things that are considered steroids or an illegal body building drugs are, Anabolic Steroids, Beta-2 agonists, human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) , luteinizing hormone (LH), Human Growth Hormone (HGH), Insulin-like growth factors, and insulin (Szumski 13).
There are also many types of Anabolic steroids, testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, androstenedione, dehydroean drosterone, clostebol, and nandrolone (Szumski 13). The anabolic steroids other name can be “dual personality drug” because it makes a person basically bi-polar (Dolan 23). Weight lifters were some of the first athletes to use steroids, but there was still no guarantee it would work (Dolan 25). Sports players suffer career crushing blows that the person uses performance-enhancing drugs to get back in the game (Dolan 55). Amphetamines could be obtained legitimately to outside sources including the black market (Dolan 58).
Growth hormone is in all sports, it is banned by the anti-doping agency, athletes have to do a drug test, to prove that a person is not doing drugs (Harvard Kennedy School). Creatine is a supplement, it is used to help recovery after workout, and it also helps increase the mass of muscles (Mayo Clinic). A steroid precursor is something the body converts to anabolic steroids (Mayo Clinic). There were polls taken,...

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...mful effects, these effects can end somone’s life. These drugs are really bad, and hope that people do not use them. Therefore do not ever use performance-enhancing drugs.

Works Cited

Harvard Kennedy School. “Performance-enhancing drugs in athletics”9 May. 2013. Web. 5 May. 2014
Mayo Clinic. “Tween and Teen Health” 22 Aug. 2013. Web. 5 May 2014
Sports Illustrated. “How we got here: A timeline of performance-enhancing drugs in sports” 11 Mar. 2008. Web. 5 May 2014.
Performance-Enhancing Drugs. Farmington Hills, Mi: Bonnie Szumski, 2003. Print.
Dolan, Edward F. Drugs in Sports New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. Print.
Grant, Scott. “Results the effects of performance enhancing drug use in sports on American society.” Articals.elitefts.com/trainin-articals/results-the-effect-of-performance-enhancing-drug-use-in-sports-on-american-society. 23 Jan 2013. Web. 5 May. 2014

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