ficial bloods” stand the chance ofsudden death. This is because this substance is a tissueenhancer to increase oxygen profusion in the tissue. Doctors contend that this substance can actually short out abody’s system dramatically and could cause death. However,when a new wave of athletic enhancers becomes available,athletes tend to justify the short positive outcomes for anylong term negative outcomes. In the an article written by Rick Reilly, drug useamong baseball players is examined. Reilly cites that 15 to30 percent of major leaguers are on illegal substances.He even says that the sport should be referred to as “mytest tube can beat up your test tube.” (Reilly, 2) Thisarticle further mentions that the sport of baseball does nothave the brains or guts to test for steroids even though theNFL tests, the NCAA tests, and the IOC tests for this samedrug use. Rick Reilly makes a good argument that athletes who usesteroids do suffer from the ill effects. He says that theaverage numbers of players who spend time on the disabledlist has increased by 31.4% (pg.3) between 1989 and 1998. Understanding and accepting the fact that many of theseplayers do take steroids, he bases his argument on the factthat the energy or muscle enhancers cause players to exhausttheir natural abilities. This, in turn, ends up withathletes who get injured because their bodies respond to thepunishment it is receiving. He even says that he cannotthink of even one player who used steroids that did notactually break down physically. This, in turn, costs theteam as well as the team player. Even though the Federal Government has allocated moniesfor reserach on steroid use, there has not been sufficientevidence to deter athletes from using them. Studies haveproven that steroid use can lead to many physical illeffects, even death. However, the athletes of today seem torely more on their own handed down knowledge about thesedrugs. They ten...
