When people think of sports, they may wonder if the greatest athletes have used performance-enhancing drugs. Steroids build mass and strength and increase tissue to increase endurance (Szumski 11). Athletes use drugs in sports to build mass and strengthen a person's bones, increase oxygen supply, work tissues, relieve pain, stimulate a person's body, reduce weight and hide the fact that a person uses other drugs (Szumski 12). . Things considered steroids or illegal bodybuilding drugs include anabolic steroids, beta-2 agonists, human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), luteinizing hormone (LH), human growth hormone (HGH), insulin-like growth factors and insulin (Szumski 13). There are also many types of anabolic steroids, testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, androstenedione, dehydrosterone, clostebol, and nandrolone (Szumski 13). Another name for anabolic steroids can be “split personality drug” because it makes a person fundamentally bipolar (Dolan 23). Weightlifters were among the first athletes to use steroids, but there was still no guarantee that it would work (Dolan 25). Athletes suffer blows in their careers because the person uses performance-enhancing drugs to get back in the game (Dolan 55). Amphetamines could be obtained legitimately from outside sources, including on the black market (Dolan 58). Growth hormone is present in all sports, it is banned by the anti-doping agency, athletes must pass a drug test to prove that a person does not have it. drugs (Harvard Kennedy School). Creatine is a supplement, it is used to help with recovery after training and it also helps increase muscle mass (Mayo Clinic). A steroid precursor is something that the body converts into anabolic steroids (Mayo Clinic). Surveys have been carried out,...... middle of paper...... adverse effects, these effects can end someone's life. These drugs are really bad and we hope people don't use them. Therefore, never use performance-enhancing drugs. Works Cited Harvard Kennedy School. “Performance-enhancing drugs in athletics” May 9. 2013. Internet. May 5. 2014Mayo Clinic. “Preteen and Adolescent Health,” August 22, 2013. Web. May 5, 2014Sports Illustrated. “How We Got Here: A Timeline of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports” March 11, 2008. Web. May 5, 2014. Performance Enhancing Drugs. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Bonnie Szumski, 2003. Print. Dolan, Edward F. Drugs in Sports New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. Print. Grant, Scott. “Findings of the effects of performance-enhancing drug use in sport on American society.” Articals.elitefts.com/trainin-articals/results-the-effect-of-performance-enhancing-drug-use-in-sports-on-american-society. January 23, 2013. The web. May 5. 2014