Steroids  are basically fake hormones.  Hormones  are things that make a guy's  voice get deeper  and help grow  hair  on his body. Athletes sometimes take steroids because it can help  muscles  get bigger and stronger. Steroids usually come in the form of pills, powders, or a liquid that can be injected into the body.  "Roids"  can make an athlete stronger and faster but they can't improve athletic skill. An example that can be taken from the game of baseball: Regardless of a player, it doesn’t make them a faster runner. Performance enhancing drug do not improve their skills. It's true effects are more toward a strength improvement. The other small detail is that regardless of the strength a baseball player may gain in order to be successful in this game you must have good eye coordination and hit the ball. So if you take one moment to think about it, you can use steroids but if your eye coordination and contact is not there. The strength you have gain from this drug has no good use in enhancing your performance in the field. Youngsters should avoid any use of any steroids in the long run. It truly does your body no good.

Using steroids  and other  muscle building  drugs are a major  health risk  and more kids are now taking these substances to improve their performance in  sports. Ten to fifteen years ago if a ball players hit 20 homeruns in a season, he was considered a power hitter. Now it’s not uncommon for even the smallest players to hit thirty to forty homeruns in a season. In fact it’s almost become a requirement. It seemed to happen overnight. One year a few players were hitting twenty homeruns, the next year it seemed almost everyone was.

In the last fifteen to twenty years, baseball has enjoyed a surplus of power hitters, the highest attendance since the 1994 strike, the largest contracts ever offered, and the media giving more attention to individual players than ever before. And now the truth has come out; steroids have been a part of it all. Nobody has been pleased to find out steroids have been used by many players since the early 90’s.