Enhancing Supplements such as Anabolic Steroids should be legal, and also used at the consumer's caution, I my self also use supplements for body building. Supplements when taking correctly can help endure duration and thrust for your work out, to reach the goal of improving the muscles in the body. Supplements, depending on how they are taken can also change a person's behavior, eating habits, and sleep patterns. Also, an overdose of supplements in one cycle that can cause the heart rate or adrenalin of a person's body to increase, that could cause a fatal reaction.
             A good example of enhancing supplements would be Anabolic Steroids; anabolic refers to the process of building muscle tissue. Just last year October 4th, 2004 the U.S. President George W. Bush, signed new law banning "Designer Steroids Dietary Supplements" (Blumenthal, Mark 1, 2). The Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 was signed into law, which prohibits the sales, through the internet or over the counter of the Dietary Supplements. This includes the NCAA's banned of supplements that can still be purchased over the counter such as ephedrine, DHEA, and androstenedione (GREEN, GARY 6, 18). But the NCAA has now discovered that ephedrine can be sold safely over the counter with the correct dosage, which can give the body enough energy, so that it can be taken without harm.
             I feel that enhancing supplements can really help a person more then it can harm them. Depending on how you take the supplements, they can only improve your health and body, more so then putting it in danger. Just recently ephedra has just been released to the public for over the counter and online sales.
             Steroids even though they are banded for over the counter sales, can still be purchased through private or online sales. As stated earlier the NCAA is trying to crack down on the private, online and illegal sales of this enhancing supplement. In conclusion with the ...