Players' use of steroids to enhance their performance is growing rapidly. The increased muscle bulk and strength translates to better performances on the athletic field. To enhance athletic performance, anabolic steroids are taken over a long period of time (weeks or months), well before any competition. In contrast to psychomotor stimulants, anabolic steroids tend to stay in the body for relatively long periods, making their detection much less dependent on testing immediately after use.
Two-thirds of Americans say baseball players found to have used steroids should be barred from baseball’s Hall of Fame, an Associated Press-AOL poll found. Player’s high salaries were named as baseball’s “biggest problem” by 33 percent of those surveyed, followed by steroids at 27 percent and the cost of going to a game at 22 percent, according to the telephone poll done for the AP and AOL Sports by Ipsos-Public Affairs.
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Steroid abuse is still increasing, and not just only proficient athletes and bodybuilders, but according to several educational efforts by health-care officials reports that numerous amateur and high school athletes looking for a syringe or a bottle of pills. What they don’t recognize is that steroids will confer them a lot more than they bargained for.
“Controlled Substances Act (CSA) defines anabolic steroids as any drug or hormonal substance chemically and pharmacologically related to testosterone (other than estrogens, progestins, and corticosteroids) that promotes muscle growth”. http://www.narcknowledge.com/steroids.html
The most commonly used steroids are Anabolic steroids which are imitative of the male hormone testosterone. Anabolic means a building or productive process and these steroids encourage increased muscle configuration and potency.
The American College of Sports Medicine’s states that “anabolic steroids can amplify body mass as well as muscular strength when particular to athletes who have been powerfully training in weight lifting instantly before the initiate of their steroid treatment and who persist the rigorous training as taking the steroids and preserving a high calorie, high protein diet................
