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U.S. Medicine Chronicle 11/24/09
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1
Steroids Killing Sports
Most athletes that use steroids take it through a syringe
One of the biggest issues in sports on every level is the use of steroids. Players are willing to do almost anything in order to be successful and become known. However, many of those players are looking towards steroids as a way to get that done. Rather than work hard and give 100 percent athletes are deciding to take the easier way and to take steroids. Use of illegal performance
enhancing drugs in sports is giving a player an unfair advantage over someone who may be working really hard. It takes away the heart and hustle about sports. It makes the teams that work the hardest and deserve it the most go down in failure. A team that supplies it’s players with performance enhancing drugs doesn’t have to work as hard but still gets the glory and the fame. If this awful epidemic of steroid use in athletics doesn’t end soon athletics could be headed in a very bad direction. Steroids are killing sports one player at a time whether a
Definitions
player thinks its benefiting his team or not it is completely unacceptable and a bad way to go about participating in athletics.
ral steroid, an artificial version of testosterone. Dianabol– first perform-
ance enhancing drug that wasn't simply testosterone Hypothamalus– a group
of nerve cells at the base of the brain that controls the body’s testosterone
How it all started The beginning of performance enhancing drugs began in the world weightlifting championships in 1954. The Russians had discovered a way to receive testosterone injections. There were many different cases before that in the use of performance enhancing drugs was in question but not proved such as the 1936 Berlin Olympics where testosterone preparations were
Epitestosterone– a natu-
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taken by the German Olympic team. Back in Greece Olympic competitors wouldn’t eat anything but meat for up to 3 months prior to the competition. These were the sacrifices they had to make in order to win the prize money. Dr. John Ziegler, the team physician for the United States at the time discovered Dianabol. Dianabol was the first performance enhancing drug that was-
n’t simply testosterone. Dianabol was available to anyone looking for an extra edge. It allowed new muscle to be built at a rate that was much more rapid than would otherwise be possible. This was just the beginning of the horrible use of performance enhancing drugs in sports.
What steroids do to the Brain and body
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MLB: The Steroid Era
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Steroids in the Olympics
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Steroids in High School Sports
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Bibliography and Resources 4