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stroids. Drugs should be banned in all sports. They have been a problem for a long
time. Athletes use them to enhance their body and for simply just the edge. ...
Submitted by callie on April 29, 2005
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Drugs should be banned in all sports. They have been a problem for a long time. Athletes use them to enhance their body and for simply just the edge. There is nothing wrong with using some drugs to enhance your body as long as they are legal. The problems that come with drugs in sports are how to detect them. Some professional sports, such as the NHL, do not even use drug tests. The only sports that test for everything are the NBA and NFL. The Major League Baseball only tests for illegal drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. They do not test for steroids or any other kind of pill. The reason for this is because the player's union will not allow these tests. They are currently voting to reconsider this idea. The other problem is that drug testing costs a lot of money and there are plenty of loopholes around these tests.
The other problems are that athletes do not get punished hard enough for failing a drug test. They get fined for pocket change and suspended for a couple of games. Drugs should be banned because they are harmful to a person's health. The long-term effects of these drugs are outrageous. The most commonly abused drugs are steroids, ephedra, marijuana, and cocaine. Most steroids and ephedra are illegal. They are usually sold illegally on the black market. Ephedra can be bought in your local GNC or other places
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sell dietary supplements. Steroids are usually smuggled like other illegal drugs. They are smuggled through the Mexican border each day. Real Sports did a special on the problems and issues that Mexico and United States face with smugglers. They went to a pharmacy and ordered a large quantity and had them shipped back into the United States. Then they smuggled 75,000 dollars worth of illegal drugs across the border. They used a secret camera to tape everything that happened. The tape was shown to the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI). According to the director, the only...
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