Dean Norland of Washington takes time in his abc article to talk about the current problems of steroid use. Basically, professional athletes are still using steroids and its effecting our youth. Athletes are not standing up and talking about steroid abuse and how harmful it is. Rather, no one is saying anything, and high school and college athletes are beginning to use these drugs more and more to keep up with the game. Although drug testing has increased over the past few years and more users are getting caught and punished, something still needs to be done about organizations to control the youths steroid abuse.
It would be one thing if steroids couldn't harm you... but they can. So many health problems are caused by these drugs that they just aren't safe and should be illegal. I don't think high school, college, or professional athletes should be able to use them and I think all professional athletes should be tested regularly. If this drugs use continues then it will only get worse. The "ideal" will continue to become more and more unreachable to so many young athletes that they will go to unhealthy lengths to be "the best" they can be.
If professional, famous athletes would speak out more against these harmful drugs than it would have a great impact on our youth and kids would stop abusing and getting hurt. And besides, I think, for the most part, the public wants to see human beings playing sports, not robots and bodybuilders.
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