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Athletes face a difficult choice whether to use drugs to enhance their performance or to take the risk of suffering from severe side effects. It is a choice, which carries significant ethical considerations. Should athletes be permitted to make this choice, or should society, through official sports organizations strictly enforce the ban on performance enhancing drugs? Athletes argue that the decision should be left to them in order to respect their individual choice. Contrary to their belief, sports organizations choose to ban performance-enhancing drugs because of the harmful consequences. The competitive nature of the modern sports’ world, in conjunction with society’s demand for excellence, has caused athletes to seek quicker alternative solutions, which results in the consumption of the drug steroids. Steroids should be banned from sports because of the negative history in competitions, the health risks involved, and the disgrace it brings to many sports. Before trying to prove that steroids serve no positive role in sport, it would be beneficial to outline the history of the drug used in sports. In the early 1950's, athletes in eastern European were already using crude forms of testosterone injections to increas