What are type of drugs that athletes use?.?
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To build muscle? - Steroids.\nTo increase blood cell count? - EPO\nFor a bit of a boost? Caffeine & Painkillers & Ephadrine\n\nTo beat the drug tests?....you better ask the athlete or his 'doctor'.
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Every player is subjected to give urine samples which are "randomly" tested for banned substances.\n\nFlaws:\n(1) Everyday medicine can produce a negative test. Even cold medicine can give a negative result.\n(2) A new steroid can easily be created, and go undetected by MLB as they wouldnt know of its existence.
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first off the MLB doesnt give anyone drugs. the current situation surrounding barry bonds is his past use of performance enhancing drugs i.e steroids. if it ends up being proven that he has used these drugs major league baseball will not aknowledge his accoplishments.
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Ehrrr. During in competition drugs testing, alcohol is considered a banned substance. It is considered a drug by WADA (World Anti Doping Agency.) \nSo if you test positive for alcohol during a competition you fail the drugs test. \nGood luck getting a drinking game into the Olympics...
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Are you talking about sports?...its "blood-doping"\nhttp://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/epo.html
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The use of anabolic steroids among athletes has been widely discussed in the press and the medical literature. Sports organizations generally condemn steroid use in the interest of fair competition, while sports physicians often focus on the dangerous side effects and health risks. Anabolic steroids or their breakdown products have been detected in athletes for many years, and black-market steroids are distributed to athletes at all levels of competition. This brief review describes how and why these agents are used by athletes, their effects on body size and athletic performance, and their known side effects.\n\nMisuse of anabolic steroids, growth hormone and other ergogenic aids is a complex problem. General solutions include education and motivation of athletes to avoid these drugs, state and federal regulations to limit their production and distribution, and unannounced drug testing of competitors.\n\nDefinition of Anabolic Steroids\n\nAnabolic steroids are more precisely characterized as anabolic-androgenic steroids. They include testosterone, the primary male sex hormone, and all chemically altered derivatives of testosterone that have anabolic (tissue-building) and androgenic (masculinizing) properties. Synthetic anabolic steroids have greater anabolic activity than androgenic activity when compared with testosterone; in large quantities, however, the synthetic steroids also have strong androgenic effects. Anabolic steroids have medical indications in the treatment of refractory anemias, hereditary angioedema, certain breast cancers, hypogonadism and starvation states.\n\nAthletes use anabolic steroids in the belief that these drugs increase body mass, muscle tissue, strength and aggressiveness. Testosterone and the synthetic anabolic steroids combine with an androgen receptor in skeletal muscles and other organs. This steroid/receptor complex stimulates production of RNA/DNA, which in turn leads to increased protein synthesis (Table 2). In muscle, increased amounts of actin and myosin are produced under the influence of anabolic steroids. These force-producing contractile proteins result in increased strength. Anabolic steroids have more dramatic effects on nitrogen retention and muscular development in females, in boys and in men who have been castrated or are otherwise deficient in natural androgens. Anabolic steroids may also exert positive effects on the growth of skeletal muscle by antagonizing protein breakdown. \n\nIn addition, anabolic steroids may produce an effect that is regulated through the central nervous system. Athletes commonly say that they are far more aggressive, experience less fatigue and recover more quickly from weight-training workouts when they are using steroids. Since minimal increments in muscular performance or psychologic benefit may constitute the difference between winning and losing, athletes may perceive these small, difficult-to-measure changes as crucial to their overall performance. Athletes often feel that they can perform weight-training workouts at a higher intensity and for longer periods under the influence of anabolic steroids. The more intensive training program leads to increased muscle mass development and improvement in strength and power. However, little or no scientific evidence supports this notion.\n\nIn athletes who do not use steroids, a strength stimulus (lifting) and an adequate diet will result in increased passage of amino acids into muscle cells and a subsequent increase in protein synthesis. Strength training without steroids will increase the number of steroid receptor sites in muscle. Strength-training programs, especially when combined with anabolic steroid use, cause not only an increase in steroid receptor sites but also saturation of these receptor sites. This results in increased protein synthesis and prevention of protein breakdown.\n\nTo date, most studies that have shown significant gains in muscle mass and strength with steroids have utilized the fo
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I wouldn't say steroids.  It has to do with the fact that players are now being bred to grow up playing sports.  Football players are conditioned and trained from grade-school through-out their entire life to be faster stronger and smarter.  This goes for any sport.  The conditioning regimen for high school nowadays includes two-a-days (two practices in one day) for 2 weeks in the middle of July (hottest month of the year).  You think they put 15 year olds through that 50 years ago?  Even in gradeschool now, they are doing two-a-days.  They are being groomed to play football from ages 6 or so on up
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Aaand... what drug would that be?
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In Canada, unless they are a sprinter or another athlete, it would tend to be a drug-runner, someone who delivers the drugs. Beware! By the way, how come you do not know this with a Hustleandflow as your byline?
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yes i have researched steroids and i am not against them..if you use them intellegently. but i think it's unfair to any athlete that hasn't cheated to compete with someone who who is injecting testosterone into their body. something that can make you twice as strong as you were, should hardly be looked at as exceptable in competition.
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diet, exercise, drugs in that order.
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The answer is probably not. They primarily use them for muscle bulk, but they have the added side effect of promoting other types of growth.\n The main issue now with steroids is the issue of pharmocogenetic medicines, which are particularly adapted to certain genetic types, promoting certain positive functions within the body. This has led to the issue of gene doping where a foreign DNA strand  could be introduced through a specially designed drug. For example, a drug could be developed to promote oxygen saturation in the blood, which at present many athletes use Ethryopoetin, a kidney drug, to do. \n It is unlikely that steroid and general drug use will ever be stopped in sport. The development of synthetic hormones and better masking agents will make detection even more difficult. Also, at present testing for some drugs such as ethryopoetin (EPO) is incredibly difficult, with a EPO test requiring 180 seperate tests and needing highly speciallised equipment and testing. \n This situation may be explained by the particualar focus that the media have on some sports, such as cycling. With more minority sports, with less athletes competing in worldwide competition, it may appear that the problem is more serious than actually is the truth.\n If you can read French then Massacre a la Chaine is worth a read. It focuses primarilly on the Festina affair, where a staff member of a cycling team was discovered with doping products in the car he was using in the Tour De France. It details not only the actual events in the 1998 scandal, for which his team, Festina, were disqualified, but also his own cycling career and drug use then. But I beg you, please don't think all cyclists are like that- most cyclists and tifosi (cycling fans) are ashamed.
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Steroids seem to be the easy way out. Working out at the gym is hard work, and some players are so lazy, they want to do it the easy way. Barry Bonds--and probably plenty of other athletes--could have been respected, great athletes if they had been willing to work. But they just took steroids. Athletes like Barry Bonds, Mark Mcquire (sp?), Rafael Palmiero--they all broke huge records. People celebrated--until they found out the horrible truth. It caused so much confusion in baseball. What to do with them? Did they have to put asterisks by all the records? (715*\n*used steroids)\nI mean, that just gives kids bad ideas. Steroids\na) RECK your body\n2) injure your chances of being a respected athlete\nd) are just plain cheap\nMost of those athletes are liars, too! They say that they didn't intentionally take steroids. That's why I respect Jason Giambi--he admitted his mistake.\nI saw a story on the news about a high school football player who died. He had been taking steroids and they recked his body.
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If the proper "stack" is used and you don't over do it in the gym steroids are pretty safe and give great results. Its the things you hear about "juicers" that give steroid's a bad name. Just remember to do the research and find out what you want from the drug. i.e. more endurance, more muscle mass, or just get stronger. Don't jump into it without knowing what your getting into. Also, its addicting because of the fast gains you will see. \n\nHope this helpes:\n\nAnabolic steroids (AS) are effective in enhancing athletic performance. The trade off, however, is the occurrence of adverse side effects which can jeopardize health. Since AS have effects on several organ systems, a myriad of side effects can be found. In general, the orally administered AS have more adverse effects than parenterally administered AS. In addition, the type of AS is not only important for the advantageous effects, but also for the adverse effects. Especially the AS containing a 17-alkyl group have potentially more adverse affects, in particular to the liver. One of the problems with athletes, in particular strength athletes and bodybuilders, is the use of oral and parenteral AS at the same time ("stacking"), and in dosages which may be several (up to 40 times) the recommended therapeutical dosage. The frequency and severity of side effects is quite variable. It depends on several factors such as type of drug, dosage, duration of use and the individual sensitivity and response.\n\nLiver Function\n\nAS may exert a profound adverse effect on the liver. This is particularly true for orally administered AS. The parenterally administered AS seem to have less serious effects on the liver. Testosterone cypionate, testosterone enanthate and other injectable anabolic steroids seem to have little adverse effects on the liver. However, lesions of the liver have been reported after parenteral nortestosterone administration, and also occasionally after injection of testosterone esters. The influence of AS on liver function has been studied extensively. The majority of the studies involve hospitalized patients who are treated for prolonged periods for various diseases, such as anemia, renal insufficiency, impotence, and dysfunction of the pituitary gland. In clinical trials, treatment with anabolic steroids resulted in a decreased hepatic excretory function. In addition, intra hepatic cholestasis, reflected by itch and jaundice, and hepatic peliosis were observed. Hepatic peliosis is a hemorrhagic cystic degeneration of the liver, which may lead to fibrosis and portal hypertension. Rupture of a cyst may lead to fatal bleeding.\n\nBenign (adenoma's) and malign tumors (hepatocellular carcinoma) have been reported. There are rather strong indications that tumors of the liver are caused when the anabolic steroids contain a 17-alpha-alkyl group. Usually, the tumors are benign adenoma's, that reverse after stopping with steroid administration. However, there are some indications that administration of anabolic steroids in athletes may lead to hepatic carcinoma. Often these abnormalities remain asymptomatic, since peliosis hepatis and liver tumors do not always result in abnormalities in the blood variables that are generally used to measure liver function.\n\nAS use is often associated with an increase in plasma activity of liver enzymes such as aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (AP), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT). These enzymes are present in hepatocytes in relatively high concentrations, and an increase in plasma levels of these enzymes reflect hepatocellular damage or at least increased permeability of the hepatocellular membrane.\n\nIn longitudinal studies of athletes treated with anabolic steroids, contradictory results were obtained on the plasma activity of liver enzymes (AST, AST, LDH, GGT, AP). In some studies, enzymes were i
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Zero Tolerance. Suppliments such as Rip Fuel and other GNC items are ok. But roids aren't permitted.
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They are tested.  If they write egregiously grammatically incorrect questions on Yahoo Answers, it is assumed that they are on drugs.\n\nThe proper phrasing would have been, "Why aren't all high school and middle school students tested for drugs, rather than just the student athletes?"\n\nThe answer to your question is, because drug testing is an invasion of privacy.  If you play sports, you sign a waiver allowing random drug testing, which tests for STEROIDS ONLY.  Generally, the drug test performed on an athlete does not test for street drugs.   Unless the school has reason to suspect that you are on drugs, they cannot test you for street drugs, whether or not you are an athlete.
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...corruption and politics has found its' way into sports\n\n...drugs [introducing foreign substances into the body and blood doping ]\n\n...racism and other forms of discrimination [although 'they' claim it does not exist in sports...YEAH RIGHT]\n\n...athletes selling out and going to other careers for the love of fame and money [example: anna kournikova]