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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 not
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Steroid use is unfair to the average moral athlete. After that happened Mark McGwire came out to the public and admitted to taking a legal steroid substitute. Children in their early teens are very easily influenced by their peers and older figures. The high school athletes will have to take steroids to compete with other athletes who are on the drug to get that scholarship.
In 1998 the world watched Mark McGwire break the homerun record. When the survey was conducted in 1997, the percentage was 91. However, the players restricted the testing for steroids only” (Bloom). When they were asked if steroids pose a risk in 2001 it was 59%. The athletes that use steroids will have an unfair advantage of more muscle mass to become stronger than an athlete not using steroids.
The biggest problem right now with steroids is in the Major League Baseball section of sports. However, both sexes can have liver cysts and liver cancer by using steroids. For example, Dave Cadigon, New York Jets offensive lineman in the NFL, is quoted “I will do anything to become the best lineman in the NFL…If the NFL doesn’t like it, screw them” (Wadler and Hainline, 56).
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