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Ecstasy Steroids (mdma)
Ecstasy is one of the street names for MDMA (the chemical name is N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine). MDMA is an amphetaminelike drug with hallucinogenic properties. People taking the drug get a sense of increased energy, euphoria and a curious feeling of empathy. While we know something about the short-term effects of ecstasy use, we do not have a very good understanding of the long-term effects. The short-term effects of the drug are related to the amount taken. If
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Steroids in Mlb
Opening day isn’t even here yet, and already we have enough controversy to last us the whole season. At a time when we’d much rather be thinking about the smell of fresh cut grass, hot dogs and pennant dreams, we’re forced to deal with a far darker issue. Now more than ever, there is alarming suspicion concerning apparent steroid drug use in Major League Baseball. As an avid baseball watcher and player of the game
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Baseball
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The Abuse of Steroids
In the world of sports it is not rare to see athletes give their heart and soul for the love of the game. From sunrise to sundown they practice everyday to perfect their game. Then there are those who take an alternative route. Now athletes are taking performance enhancers such as creatine, androstenedione and worst of all, anabolic steroids. Steroids are chemicals that act like hormones (substances in your body that regulate bodily functions). Anabolic
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Level Playing Field for Baseball
Level Playing Field for Baseball When most people think of baseball usually the higher market teams such as the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees come to mind. People think of higher market teams because they have the biggest names in the game, they are the most marketable teams, and they have typically been the best. Even though Boston and New York hold one of the biggest rivalries in all of sports, baseball
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The History of Baseball
The History of Baseball Americans began playing baseball on informal teams, using local rules, in the early 1800s. By the 1860s, the sport, unrivaled in popularity, was being described as America's "national pastime." Alexander Joy Cartwright of New York invented the modern baseball field in 1845. Alexander Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club devised the first rules and regulations for the modern game of baseball. Baseball was based on
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The Effects of Steroid Use by Adolescents
shall begin with the psychological dangers. The fact of the matter is that puberty effects more than just physical maturing, but also many personality characteristics that last your entire lives. Puberty is the period in which many influences, as well as practices will contain the most "sticking power". The problem is that steroids can lead to serious health problems, and that the sooner you start taking them the earlier the problems may occur. This is
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Cause and Effects: Steroids and Athletes
Cause and Effect: Steroids and Athletes. There are so many different kinds of people who use steroids; mainly they are athletes who want to compete, kids who are trying it for the first time and other school athletes. Coaches in the GYM take steroids so they will look more muscular and huge from those who are training. On the other side, some people who perform hard work like policeman, fireman uses steroids to be more
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The History of Baseball
The History of Baseball Americans began playing baseball on informal teams, using local rules, in the early 1800s. By the 1860s, the sport, unrivaled in popularity, was being described as America's "national pastime." Alexander Joy Cartwright of New York invented the modern baseball field in 1845. Alexander Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club devised the first rules and regulations for the modern game of baseball. Baseball was based on
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Steroids
In today’s world, the word “steroids” is synonymous with sports, as it has been since steroids were first used. The first known steroid use was in ancient Greece, where the Olympic athletes used natural steroidal substances such as “plant derivatives, all meat diets and animal testicles” to enhance their performances. Throughout time athletes have used all sorts of things to become better athletes, but today’s “anabolic steroids” were discovered in the 1930’s by German scientists.
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History of Baseball
The History of Baseball Americans began playing baseball on informal teams, using local rules, in the early 1800s. By the 1860s, the sport, unrivaled in popularity, was being described as America's "national pastime." Alexander Joy Cartwright of New York invented the modern baseball field in 1845. Alexander Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club devised the first rules and regulations for the modern game of baseball. Baseball was based on
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Cause and Effect: Steroids and Athletes
Phillip Ninan 10/25/2006 Mr. Astmann English Cause and Effect: Steroids and Athletes. There are so many different kinds of people who use steroids; mainly they are athletes who want to compete or kids who are trying it for the first time and other school athletes. Coaches in the gym take steroids so they will look more muscular and huge from those who are training. On the other side, some people who perform hard work like
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A Baseball Fan
What is a baseball fan? The word "fan" is an abbreviation of the word "fanatic," meaning "insane." In the case of baseball fans, the term is very appropriate. They behave insanely, they are insane about baseball trivia, and they are insanely loyal. Certainly the behavior of baseball fans is insane. They wear their official team t-shirts and warm-up jackets to the mall, the store, the classroom, and, if they can get away with it,
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What Are Steroids?
What are Steroids? Anabolic steroids were developed to treat hypogonadism, a condition in which the tests do not produce sufficient testosterone for normal growth. Anabolic steroids are synthetic hormones that can boost the body's ability to produce muscle and prevent muscle breakdown. Some athletes take steroids in their hopes that they will improve their ability to run faster, lift heavy objects, jump higher, or have more endurance. Steroid Dangers? Taking high doses of steroids increases
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“my Brother Allie's Baseball Mitt”
I loved my brother Allie so much, that’s why I kept his baseball mitt. I couldn’t stand thinking about that I’ll never see him again! I guess because of that the mitt is so damn valuable to me. Well, and it really was a huge part of Allie, that’s why it makes me feel good; because only I have it. Allie’s baseball mitt is a left-handed baseball mitt. The whole mitt is a light
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Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big To fully understand this book, people must go behind the book and find the true state of mind of the author. Unfortunately in this case, the author is the one and only Jose Canseco. Jose Canseco is what I like to call, “The black sheep in the family of baseball.” Canseco’s history can be related to such incidents of drug using, heavy
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Baseball
The issue concerning steroid use in baseball has been an ongoing issue for Major League Baseball since the mid 1990's. Steroids, which are performance-enhancing drugs, have been banned from baseball. Although rumors of steroid use by baseball players have persisted for years, the controversy has grown considerably due to the drastic rise in home runs since 1995. Many Major League Baseball players have come forth and spoken about steroid use in baseball. David Wells, currently
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Ethics and Steroids
Many athletes of all ages are turning towards performance enhancing drugs as a way of improving their performance by giving them that extra edge. This is not only wrong but its cheating and harmful to the athlete. Performance enhancing drugs have been around for hundreds of years. The Incas of the South America country Peru used the burned leaves of coca trees to give them great amounts of energy when faced with battles, hunts, ect.
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Steroids
Nowadays, it's not uncommon to know how much money a professional athlete makes. The media covers every aspect of professional sports, for any type of story. You could say their just doing there job, but popularity and achievements romanticize professional sports. The glamorization in professional sports puts added pressure on young teens and adults to use performance enhancing drugs. Today, performance enhancing drugs are talked about on a daily basis; young athletes might think its
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Steroids, Teens
In a 2002 survey, the youth were asked how easy it was for school aged children to obtain steroids. The survey showed 22% of eighth graders, 33.2% of tenth graders, and 46.1% of twelfth graders reported that steroids were “fairly easy” or “very easy” to obtain (greater). Almost 50 percent of seniors in high school reported that obtaining anabolic steroids is “very easy”, the amount of students that have access to steroids is alarmingly
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Steroids and Sexualtiy
Steroids and Sexuality HSC 425i 12/5/2006 In today’s media driven culture there seems to be a high value placed on a person’s physical appearance. Stereotypes and assumptions are made about those who are in great physical shape, as they are of those who are considered to be overweight or out-of-shape. With constant media bombardment of being physically beautiful, many Americans have resulted to attaining the ideal physique by unnatural means such as cosmetic surgery, weight
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Baseball Magic by George Gmelch
Baseball Magic ---> In the article "Baseball Magic" by George Gmelch, it talks about how players and their rituals they perform before a game. The whole idea is to show how two different cultures, American Baseball and the Trobriand Islanders both have the same idea. That idea being that if you change your way of doing something it ultimately ruin you. Keeping things the same will keep your luck the same. -----> The article talks
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Steroids
Topic: Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To present the known facts concerning the use of steroids James Mercer Introduction I. ATTENTION GETTER: In a recent report, The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) uncovered an alarming statistic: more than a half million students in the 8th and 10th grade are currently using some form of anabolic steroids. ( www.steroidabuse.org) II. PREVIEW POINTS: A. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: 1. Definition in scientific terms 2.
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Steroids
Cuban In today’s world, taking drugs for improvement in sports is almost second nature; on the other hand, athletes do not know how many people they affect by this. There are many types of performance enhancing drugs that athletes take and there are many adverse side affects. The first drug taken that had any effect on an athletes performance was amphetamines which were widely used by soldiers in World War II and which, in the
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New York’s Favorite Past Time: Baseball
New York’s Favorite Past Time "Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the home team, If they don't win it's a shame. For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out, At the old ball game." New York City is well known for being an attraction for tourists. Whether
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