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By: Megan

On the field you wipe the sweat off your forehead then cock your hat sideways. You snatch the bat from your teammate and start heading toward the field.

You have no doubts in yourself but one, one that couldn’t be shared with anyone. Other than that you’re the best there ever could be.

The ball whirls towards your bat and, “WHACK!” it goes sailing. You charge and make a run for it, first---second---thir…. You collapse right in front of third base (you’re knocked out). This is what you were so nervous about. This is what you wish hadn’t happened.

When you wake up, you notice you’re hooked up to I.V. cables in a hospital. You know now you’re done for, your secret will be out. That is if it isn’t already. You’ll be kicked out for the season, if not the whole team. You now have the urge to never have started taking those lousy ‘screw-ups’. The whole kit and caboodle would be messed up for the rest of your life, and would take forever to get back because of them. You think: it had to be drugs.

I believe that you shouldn’t be able to use enhancement drugs in sports or athletics. Some people might say, “It’s just like a boost for the big game” or “It only polishes what I need help in.”

On the contrary they are very damaging towards you. Enhancement drugs get in the way of your physical and well being health. “These substances often pose a significant risk to the health and well being of athletics,” says an article by the White House drug policy. Any type of drug can be addictive and harmful to the human body. It is no different for people who use them for “sport” related reasons because they will still have the same fallouts.

Likewise no matter what the age or who you are you shouldn’t use them. In each article I read, it explains and referred to mostly adults using steroids (or any type of enhancement drug). People from the Olympics- like Katrin Krabbe, Grit Breuer, Jud Logan, Bonnie Dasse, Wu Dan, Madina Biktagirova, Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton- were found with enhancement drugs. Also people from the MLB (Major League Baseball) were found with many enhancement drugs. But there is no doubt that teenagers are additionally tempted, and do end up experimenting with enhancement drugs too.

Furthermore, they’re noticeable so you can’t hide them. When taking steroids, there’s always the risk of getting too acknowledged, and therefore attaining to get caught. In the end of an article, ‘All star All man,’ it tells: “You’re demonstrating how many home runs a human hits, maybe 40 for the year instead of those ridiculous, steroidal high 60’s.” Steroids take away one’s natural ability and turn it into something beyond that. Something that people have to take a second glance at to see if they ‘have’ the talent, or are just lying about every little thing they are.

In addition, the punishments that follow are HUGE. The consequences of exerting steroids during athletic performances are very severe. As said in ‘MLB to Begin Imposing Steroid Penalties,’ “Steroid users in baseball will be subject to suspensions or fines.” In an additional article ‘All star All man,’ a major league baseball player, Josh Hamilton, got suspended by the MLB for failing drug tests he had to take. He’s taken eight trips to rehab, and his wife had kicked him out, of her life. Now this is just what happened to one man, now imagine some even worse effects/consequences that could have followed.

Moreover the test and precautions teams schedule make drug enhancement very difficult to hide. People who choose to do enhancement drugs are, sooner or later, bound to get caught. Now many types of high athletic systems are going through extra precautions to make sure no one is doing drugs. For example in an article it says: “This year 1,198 major leaguers were tested for steroids, and an addition 240 were selected for random test.” If you are taking drugs, it will be very likely that you’ll get caught with them because they have tests at irregular periods of time.

All in all, I believe you shouldn’t be able to reason with enhancement drugs of any type, at any expense, especially near and during sport participation. I believe it makes an unfair advantage towards the other players, and it can be very harmful towards you. On the same account, most of them are noticeable, and, if not, you’ll still get caught with the random tests sports teams attend. No matter who uses them, old or young, you’ll still have many unwanted consequences to follow.

Ultimately, enhancement drugs are a major mistake, and you, without-a-doubt, will regret taking them because the horrible effects that follow are far greater than you can imagine. Enhancement drugs will interfere with your health, no matter what state you’re in. They will be easy to noticeable on whoever the consumer of enhancement drugs is. You’ll get caught sooner or later, and the test makes it that much easier to find out whether you are sneaking them or not. No matter who you are they will be, and are going to be defective for you.

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