Summary

           Compilation By: Julian Mora

Other Side Of The Coin… Drugs and Young Athletes

Opponents of performance-enhancing drugs at the professional level argue that their use inspires many young people to try them—and that those whose bodies are still developing may be at even greater risk for harmful health effects. A 2004 Newsweek article included an estimate that in the previous year 300,000 teens between the eighth and twelfth grades had tried steroids, a dramatic increase from a decade before. Users included boys and girls hoping to improve their performance in sports such as football or track and field, or simply to become more muscular and improve their appearance.

But steroids can interfere with the natural processes of puberty. For boys, the sudden surge of testosterone steroids creates can create male pattern baldness and violent mood swings. Steroids may cause the body to stop producing its natural testosterone. This may inhibit bone growth and make males develop female characteristics such as breasts and a high voice. Some who have tried to quit steroids have developed severe depression that in a few cases led to suicide. Girls may become more masculine, lose body fat (including breasts) and develop facial hair and a deep voice.

In many cases young people using steroids draw little suspicion from parents, teachers, or coaches. Steroid testing, at $dollar;50 to $dollar;100 a test, can be too expensive for schools. But some people argue that more extensive testing and other programs are necessary to combat what they consider to be an epidemic of performance-enhancing drugs among youth. "Clearly, burying our heads in the sand simply isn‘t working," argues Rob Dawson, a sports clinic doctor who speaks to schools and students about the dangers of drug use. "It‘s time we re-evaluated our stance on drugs in sports in general."

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Source Citation

"    Drugs and Athletes." Current Issues: Macmillan Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 7 Oct. 2013.

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Examples

Examples, the most consumed drugs by young people

1. Marihuana

2. Cocaine 

   

                                                                                                          


3.  Heroine 

4.  Ecstasies  

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Effects

The effects that these substances cause are psychological effects because these reactions are combined between reactions that are wanted by the consumer with unwanted responses, those responses are: relaxation, drowsiness, trouble-term memory, difficulty concentrating. The physical causes effects such as increased appetite, tachycardia and incoordination of movements. And the social effects are: they are like to spend more time alone, away from his family because only think consume drugs more because they feel more accepted by their friends and believe that they are at the same level.

the duration of the effect of drugs in your body, is the moment when they feel they do not have any kind of problems, they forget everything and when this effect has passed all comes back to reality, there are situations of concern and even increased because the addiction has affected their physically and mental health.

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Causes

Often the causes are as follows:

1. Curiosity: the young on their own initiative, by insistence of his friends or to prove something that is not, takes drugs and consume it.
2. Life circumstances: such as depression by a lost love, debts, school pressure and family problems or with the girlfriend and others aspects that affect in this problematic.
3. Pressure by others: people who are already lost in this terrible world of drugs almost always seek to involve to more people so that they become like them, frequently look to people weak and little temperament that already are the most easy to convince. 

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History

Although the consumption of drugs has existed throughout history in recent decades has taken a new dimension. This due to the fact that currently get, acquire, supply among others is very easy to do because of the progress of the international market as the Liberal thoughts and clearly drug trafficking has done to get this type of substances damage to health is like going out to buy bread at the store, on the other hand in the history of the country never had been so easy get these drugs which makes the level of addiction to these substances to grow every day more.