Regardless of the potential punishment for steroid use in professional sports, numerous athletes are still choosing to use steroids for one reason, steroids do work and they do increase the athletes abilities by a noticeable amount. The increase in an athlete's strength and endurance is exactly why there is a ban on the use of steroids.
Although steroids are still being used in professional sports today, there has been a substantial decrease in the amount of athletes that use them. This is mostly due to the random drug testing that almost all professional sports now administer. Another reason is the stipulations that come with using performance enhancing drugs, such as monetary fines, the scrutiny received from peers and fans, and not to mention a lifetime ban from professional sports. Take Barry Bonds for example, he chose to take steroids and now he is under federal indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice.
It's true, steroids or performance enhancing drugs can increase your strength, stamina, and overall appearance in a short amount of time but the risk taken by anyone who takes them is far greater than the short term reward. The possible legal stipulations along with the symptoms steroids and other performance enhancing drugs bring should be reason enough for professional athletes to not even think about taking steroids. Yet professional athletes still choose to use performance enhancers and in the world of professional sports, steroids and performance enhancing drugs will probably never be gone.
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