Have you ever heard of Barry Bonds? Well he was a Major League Baseball player that was on steroids. He hit more homeruns than any had ever hit in baseball. Drugs in sports is a huge deal in sports today. More and more athletes are doing drugs now. It is a problem that needs to be fixed. Steroids are a commonly used drug in the sports world today. Steroids are laboratory made drugs. They are man-made versions of the human hormone testosterone, which aids growth of the muscles, bones, …show more content…
It can be fixed by all sports conducting mandatory drug test on all athletes. All athletes should be tested for performance enhancing drugs. The current method for testing drugs is unfair to the athletes; one reason is that the test results are often incorrect (O’Sullivan 30). All of sports drug testing should be done in special drug testing facilities (O’Sullivan 31). Drug testing or dope testing is performed in almost all sports and sports bodies are faced with policing drug abuse. They are also responsible for publishing a list of banned substances (Dudley 48). We must do something to save athletes from risking their lives and health. The way the companies or sports teams release player’s drug test should be changed. The way they do it now is they release it to the public. That is unfair to the player because the results are sometimes incorrect. That has ruined many athletes’ reputations. The drug test results should be given to the player and kept private. The commissioners of each sport need to come up with a list of consequences for the athletics that fail drug test. The first offense should be a fine of a certain amount of money. The second offense could be where the player gets suspended for a certain number of games and so on. We need this so the athletics of the world will think twice before they take