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Steroids

Steroids

What price are people willing to pay in order to achieve their dreams? What do people do when hard work isn't enough? There is a very fine line between success and morality. In the sports and the general public, that line is crossed both on and off the field. Often times breaking the law is the easiest way to realize your dreams. I'm talking about steroids, the answer to all your dreams. Many people, both athletes and regular people like you and me, use steroids because they are trying to accomplish something that they set out to do. For athletes, it may to hit an extra homerun and for the general public, it may to look bigger so that people can notice you or to impress that one person from the opposite sex. In this paper, I will be talking about the history of steroids, the types of steroids people use, the effect steroids have on the body, and the many different ways to take steroids
Anabolic steroids were developed nearly 75 years ago by German scientists to give their Olympic athletes an edge over their competition. For years the German athletes were dominant in strength disciplines, such as weightlifting, wrestling, and track and field events such as shot put and sprinting. The dominance continued for eight years until a German athlete defected to the United States and alerted the US Olympic committee. American scientists then started to develop performance enhancers of there own. For the next eight years other countries began to develop programs of their own hoping to help there athletes gain an upper edge on other athletes. However these programs focused on performance and not on safety resulting in the death of many athletes. During the Rome Olympics in 1960, a Danish cyclist named Knud Enemark Jensen died during competition. His autopsy revealed traces of amphetamines. In the 1972 Munich games, a swimmer by the name of Rick Demont tested positive for ephedrine. Finally, in the 1970's, the International Olympic committee began to...