Steroid Use in Sports

Melissa James

Speech 2221

Ms. Knight

07/2/11

Topic: Baseball players should be allowed to use steroids.

General Purpose: To persuade

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience about the fact that Baseball players should be allowed to use steroids.

Thesis:

Introduction: Many people think that its wrong for athletes to use steroid because it offers an unfair advantage to the players that don't take this drug. I think that it should be up to the individual weather they want to take this drug. Its only unfair because its not suppose to be used in the real world of baseball. If this drug was legal in the sports world it wouldn't be unfair because every player would have the opperunity to take this stimulus if they wish to do so. Although steroids have many negative effects, they have many needed medical purposes. Steroids are used as medications to treat many diseases such as allergies, asthma, skin inflammations, arthritis, and connective-tissue diseases such as lupus and many more. steroids are like any other drug; good for one thing but bad for another. All medications has side affects it just depends on the person who uses the drug.

Body:

I. They are helpful in medical conditions.

A. Androgen. A steroid based drug.

1. "Androgens have many legitimate medical uses, such as the use for treatment of hypogonadal men to compensate for the lack of endogenous production. Anabolic steroids are also helpful for the treatment of certain adolescent diseases, some types of anemia, and for a relatively rare form of edema. Other clinical uses focus on the tissue building and anti-catabolic effects, such as in the treatment of burn victims, AIDS, or HIV positive patients, or patients malnourished from disease or old age" (Bellino 1).

II. Steroids are helpful in building muscles.

B. Once muscles are build fat decline.

2. Probably one of the most well known ways for using steroids other than for the building of muscle for competition is for it's quick healing results of inflamed or swollen joints after just a few days of use. Today, pharmaceutical companies make dozens of different corticosteroid drugs to treat allergies, asthma, skin inflammations, arthritis, and connective-tissue diseases such as lupus (Bellino 1).

III. The negative affect that steroids have on the body.

C. Many people have a great argument about steroids.

3. Some of the ill effects of the