Steroids Should Not Be Legalized Essay

There are 7.125 billion people in the world, 528.7 million people in North America, and 318.9 million people in the United States alone; 0.5 percent of those people are steroid users. That is 1,084,000 people in the United States alone, many losing their lives because of steroids. Where do people get the idea to use from? Their role model, the idolized people they look up to do steroids, and so they think it is okay. They think since the professionals have had success in their daily lives as well as their competing using steroids they should be able to also. Instead, athletes overuse and end up with severe side effects, or quite possibly death. For this reason, Performance Enhancing Drugs should not be legalized in the United States for athletes or for non-athletes.

According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, anabolic steroids

The physical being giving you the opposite sex’s sex hormones than the ones you were born with, and build up of the opposite sex’s physical features. The mental effects being increased risk of depression and increased anger issues. Another reason the United States of America should not legalize steroid use is that it shows teenagers and the younger generations that it is okay to do whatever you need to get whatever you might want. It is a bad precedent to set for people at such a young age. We should be setting a standard of hard work and initiative. Like Will from Newsroom says in reference to America being the greatest country in the world, “It’s not the greatest country in the world…...we sure used to be we stood up for what was right...we reached for the stars, acted like men..and we didn’t scare so easy.” Instead of standing up for what is right and reaching for what we were made to accomplish, we have become scared and use drugs, such as steroids, to counteract the fear instead of powering through it and accomplishing our