The year is 1999 and the New York Jets are playing the Minnesota Vikings in the last Super Bowl of the twentieth century. It is late in the fourth quarter, the score is Jets 21, Vikings 20. The Vikings are faced with a crucial fourth and one with a minute, ten left to play in the fourth quarter. The Vikings decide its do or die and are forced to go for it. The teams come to the line of scrimmage and the quarterback starts his cadence. The ball is snapped and the quarterback hands the ball off to the running back. There is no hole and the running back is forced to try and dive over the line for the first down. As he is in the air the middle linebacker, Joe Smith, lays a crushing hit on the him and stops him one foot short of the first down marker. The Jets end up winning the game thanks to the great defensive play made by Joe Smith. Joe Smiths overpowering strength and size seems to have won the game for the Jets and it just so happens that he might have acquired that strength and size through the use of an illegal drug known as anabolic steroids. At the moment everything seems peachy keen, but was it really worth it?Now that I have set the stage, you have probably guessed that my research paper is on anabolic steroids. In this paper I hope to show you all of the effects of steroids, both positive and negative.Steroids are a serious matter and a very controversial issue in our world today. Many people take the side that they shouldnt be an illegal drug because all they do is help people gain strength and size. They feel that even though they might cause a few side effects they should be legal because even some over-the-counter drugs cause side effects similar to the side effects of steroids. On other side of this argument is the person who thinks that enhancing a persons performance by building strength and muscle tissue gives him an unfair advantage over the person who has acquired his strength and size naturally. One ...
