Today’s Major League Baseball athletes are not restricted from the use of any performance enhancing drug on the market. That statement might no longer be true in the future. Doctors have recently reported that they have positively identified traces of the herb ephedra in the body of Baltimore Oriole’s pitcher Steve Bechler. Bechler collapsed of a heatstroke and died shortly thereafter, while attending a routine spring training practice with his fellow teammates. His temperature at the time of his collapse was 108, and that was contributed to by the Florida heat, and amounts of ephedra, pseudoephedrine, and caffeine he was taking at the time. The analysis read that the amounts of these contributors in Bechler’s blood was strikingly consistent with the amount inside three tablets of the weight-loss supplement Xenadrine.
Teammates said that Bechler was taking these weight-loss pill
I feel that the research put into the current death of Steve Bechler should be incriminating enough to get the drug ephedra banned from baseball, and hopefully taken off the shelves of the drugstores across the nation. Evidence seems overwhelmingly against the drug when you see the situation and put it together with other events that have taken place in the past. Many athletes have died, or been severely hurt by abusing the drug and taking it for quick weight-loss and in too hot of conditions. The drug ephedra makes the heart work at a higher pace then normal, and the body switches into overdrive; all while already working out. This seems to cause problems with athletes on the top rung of today’s sports mainly because they are the one’s using high amounts of supplements, and having the most intense workouts to get into shape.
s to lose weight during the beginning stages of the season when he collapsed on February 16. Both
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