Steroids, Just Another Way to Cheat
What is cheating? Cheating is getting rewarded for ability by dishonest means. It is generally used for breaking the rules to gain advantage in the competitive situations. Whether you cheat in school, gambling or even sports, it is one of the lowest moral actions we are capable of doing. It doesn’t matter the way one cheats deep down inside, all of us realize we are doing wrong. One of the ways to cheat is to use steroids. Nevertheless steroids can be extremely beneficial when used for medical purposes. Many patients suffering from muscle-wasting diseases, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and hormone deficiency benefit from using anabolic steroids. Corticosteroids relieve pain for many patients with arthritis and some skin disorders (Spraugue). Sadly most of the people who do use steroids, use it for reasons to benefit themselves. Most of the cases steroids are being used are in sports, in other words it is just another way to cheat. The use of performance enhancing drugs is mostly done to improve athletic performance. Anabolic steroids are derivatives of the male sex hormone, testosterone. They're used in the medical world to help rebuild tissues that have become weak because of serious injury or illness. Despite the evidence that taking steroids may cause serious health problems, some athletes still continue to use them illegally. The use of steroids and other drugs to enhance athletic performance has occurred with ever-increasing frequency since the mid-1950s. Germany was the first to develop steroids in the 1930s, experiencing on dogs, and later on German soldiers. The Germans discovered improvements in their soldier’s strength, but in a long run, not as much in their health. Taking steroids to make one stand out might seem like a great idea, but everybody knows it is wrong. But that’s not the worst we are capable