What are steroids? a drug to gain extra energy or capacity to do something for example a race. An athlete uses steroids so that he/she can run faster in the race.
Who uses steroids? Athlets, highschool students and some amount of middle school students.
How are steroids used? by mouth that is pills or by injections.
What are it’s side-effects? long-term serious health problems and some side-effects are not noticible which takes place in one’s body.
Some more side-effects are:
heart disease, high blood pressure, bald, cancer, liver damage,sleep problems, vomiting, nausea, stroke, bloodclots and many more.
It also has emotional effects such as anxiety, mood swings, thoughts of suicide, angry, etc.
I think that the distribution of steroids should be very limited. Only existing and licence doctors can have it and they can prescibe it to some athletes with a very limited dosage.
March 7, 2007 at 2:43 am
At the moment, your topic is not argumentative. Steroids are already available only through doctors, though some sports doctors abuse this privilege. Many of the steroids seen in today’s world are obtained illegally. If you want to continue with the idea of steroids as an argumentative topic, you need to adjust your focus (for example, arguing that the image the media presents of a perfect body has led to the abuse of steroids in a specific group of people (say, college athletes) would be a much better topic. If you’re still confused, come see me and we’ll work on your topic.
March 7, 2007 at 6:38 pm
One thing that confused me is that you said steroids are good for athletes. Are they really? Because they are illegal, arent they? I think the topic you have chosen is really good because it is happening a lot now. I think you should decide on an audience, and also I think it would be interesting to know how long it takes for the drug to affect you and what it actually does.