performance enhancing drugs in sports

             Performance enhancing drugs can cost someone their career or even worse there life.
             There are three main types of performance enhancers that are used by athletes : Amphetamines, Anabolic Steroids, and The Human Growth Hormone pill. In just about every sport there is some form of performance enhancer; one of the more common sports is the power and strength sports. There are a few different was to ingest these drugs: orally, by injection, and there are creams and gels. There are many concequences from taking performance enhancing drugs. Sports officials today are having more problems with performance enhancers because of the growing rate of the three most common performance enhancers: Amphetamines, Anabolic Steroids, and The Human Growth Hormone pill. These drugs are found in football, baseball, and even the Olympics, and no matter how young or old there are a lot of users. Performance enhancers are in just about all athletic organizations such as: pro sports, college sports, and high school sports. These athletes get the performance enhancers from there coaches, other athlete's, and the black market. Performance enhancers are used to increase muscle mass, reduce body fat, and to increase sexual stamina. Some of the people who have used performance enhancers reported that in the past they encountered some sort of physical or sexual abuse, and they believe that being bigger and stronger would help to avoid another attack in the future. There are a couple different ways that performance enhancers can be taken: orally, injected intramuscularly, and there are creams and gels that can be rubbed on the skin. Abusers typically stack or pyramid their doses in cycles ranging from 6 to 12 weeks starting off in small doses and gradually increasing the doses, and then vise versa down to zero, and then they have a free cycle where they let there system recuperate. There are many side effects from using performance enhancers: in men there are...

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