drug most frequently used by athletes." 1The effects of drugs on the users and those around them sometimes do not seem To be as bad as they really are. The athletes play a vital role as role model for the nationsyoung people. As athletes they have obligations to their sport, teammates, fans, and mostimportantly themselves. Professional sports are a workplace. Pro athletes are paid to play their sports, just as a doctor is paid to treat his patients, a carpenter is paid to build houses and a truck driver is paid to drive his truck. Athletes have an example they must set, but when they use drugs they fail at the example they set. Marijuana and Steroids affect the human body in various ways, which is what some athletes do not know. Marijuana is an addictive drug. " Marihuana smoke produces functional, structural,And irreversible lung changes in long term smokers." 2 Marijuana smoke is more damaging to the lungs than tobacco smoke. The effects of marijuana in psychiatryevaluated conditions such as schizophrenia and alcoholism. Steroid use has many long term effects. Months to years of steroid abuse can lead to liver tumors, sterilitycoronary artery disease and increased aggression. In males shrinkage of the testis and an increase in breast size are some side effects, and in females a decrease in breast size and sterility.The reasons for drug use by athletes are many, but the main one is the plain desire to win. Anabolic steroids are used legitimately for skeletal and growth disorders for certain types of anemia and to offset the negative effects of radiation and chemotherapy.When most athletes turn up using drugs, then most young people think drugs are OK. A medical journal says," Sports has become so artificial that it is hard to tell between acceptable and unacceptable aids." 3 Some athletes take drugs for sicknesses that show upon drug test these are cases when the drugs are accidental. Baseball star Darryl Strawberry said that pressu...
