Use of anabolic steroids in professional sportsThe first case of performance-enhancing drugs in sport occurred before the discovery of anabolic steroids and is believed to be that of a British cyclist named Arthur Linton. At the age of twenty-four, he died during a race between Bordeaux and Paris in 1886. Controversy quickly arose when it was suspected that he had taken a stimulant called trimethyl at the time of his death. Anabolic steroids have become an epidemic among athletes since the 1950s, when a Swiss company called Ciba Pharmaceuticals introduced what would become the most popular anabolic drug among athletes, called methandrostenolone. “By this time, the era of the steroid athlete was well underway and world records were being broken and re-broken with remarkable regularity. » (Oklobdzija & Weyrauch, 1989, para 3) Since then, there have been numerous cases in professional sports where athletes have been reported or caught using anabolic steroids. Jose Canseco was a former major league baseball player who admitted to using anabolic steroids. He wrote a book called "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big" in which he claimed that eighty-five percent of major league baseball players used steroids. His book became a New York Times bestseller and led to numerous congressional meetings before the House of Representatives where baseball players, including his former teammates, were invited to testify about their alleged steroid use . One player in particular who attracted a lot of attention and trouble as a result of these actions was Roger Clemens. Roger Clemens was a star pitcher in major league baseball who played for teams such as the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Hous...... middle of paper ...... Murder- suicide of Chris Benoit. Retrieved April 28, 2014 from http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/chris-benoits-dad-son-suffered-severe-brain-damage/story?id=11471875Oklobdzija, E., Weyrauch, D., (1989 ). . Anabolic steroids and athletes: a case study. Retrieved April 29, 2014 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2484526/Press, A., (2011). Charlie Sheen admits to using steroids. Retrieved April 29, 2014 from http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6716984Shore, R., (2008). How we got here: a timeline of performance-enhancing drugs in sport. Retrieved April 29, 2014 from http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/03/11/steroid.timeline/Wright, H., (2009). The ten most notorious steroid users in sporting history. Retrieved April 29, 2014 from http://bleacherreport.com/articles/155381-top-ten-notorious-steroid-users/