The issue of performance enhancing steroids and HGH

1) People always wonder if the use of these enhancers destroys the integrity of the game. In hindsight, it seems obvious that some baseball players in the late 1990s were gaining some sort of advantage since power numbers jumped across the board, but the fans, media, and baseball executives either were oblivious to the obvious (I was 13 so that includes me), or unofficially encouraged this usage to increase offense.

2) In recent years, the government has become more involved with steroids in sports. Steroids and HGH are illegal, and with an election year coming up, politicians are looking for some important public issue that they can take a hard stand against without harming their own public interests.

3) Players on steroids are setting a bad example for the children. Children see their role models on steroids and getting great short term results, money, and recognition, so the children think that if they take steroids then they will become rich and popular.

4) There is also a question of the morality of using performance enhancing drugs. Many people question how people can be proud of their accomplishments when they cheats to reach them.

5) It has been documented that steroids can be hazardous to your health. Moderate usage of these drugs can result in massive organ failure, testicular atrophy (always a fun one) and even death. The prime example is the number of professional wrestlers under fifty that have died due to a combination of steroids, pain killers, and illicit drugs.

6) In a legal sense, the case of the murder-suicide of Chris Benoit and his family because of a combination of head trauma and steroids which I cannot discuss without about 4000 words and a ton of profanity.