Professional athletes get an unfair advantage by using steroids. Athletes should be banned from using steroids as a muscle enhancer. There are many effects on a person's well being by using steroids. Sports should be based on talent and skill without any type of medicine to enhance a player's game. If athletes are allowed to use steroids, then sports won't be used as a means to show off an athlete's "god given" talents but a challenge to become stronger and more powerful than your opponent. The unfair advantage that the athletes have is a great problem. However, the consequence of taking the drug also holds weight in the debate. Many problems can occur as a result of using steroids.
             The steroids that are used by athletes are formally known as anabolic steroids. These steroids affect the user's body in both a fast way and long term. And there are different affects for both male and female. Yet, there are some that they share. Predominantly in men there is a reduction in sperm production, impotence, and irreversible breast enlargement. Women develop characteristics that men have. Women decrease in breast size. Their voices deepen along with more growth of body hair. These characteristics in men and women occur physically and noticeably (Internet1). I notice these characteristics in the women of the World Wrestling Federation. Sometimes I even get them confused with their competitors who are mostly men. However, both sexes can have liver cysts and liver cancer by using steroids. Along with the great possibility of having a heart attack, aggression, and AIDS can be other consequences of using steroids (Internet 1).
             Something that I didn't think of was the chance of catching AIDS from needles used to inject the steroids. I have always thought of steroids as being in a pill form. But it can be taken "orally, injected, and in some cases there is also a rub on cream" (Internet 2). I think ...