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The first edition of this work, published in 1982, concentrated on the athletes use of and the physicians knowledge of, anabolic steroids. This fully updated second edition discusses the continuing controversy over their use in competitive sports. An introduction of the use and abuse of anabolic steroids is followed by chapters on such topics as anabolic steroid compounds, the anabolic-to-androgen ratio, basic principles of muscle building, current...
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The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that made headlines across the country - told by the award-winning reporters who broke the story and featuring major new revelations about high-profile athletes. For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sport, there were rumors that some of our nation's greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track...
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"The use of anabolic steroids in sport has become increasingly well documented over recent years. Controversy over nandrolone and EPO, and the suspicions surrounding their testing, continue to keep the subject in the headlines. Concern is growing, however, that the use of anabolic steroids outside competitive sport is becoming more widespread.
Acknowledged by the EU as a public health issue, health professionals outside the sporting arena are increasingly...
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"For nearly twenty-five years, East Germany's corrupt sports organization dominated international athletics. While the German Democratic Republic's secret "State Plan" was in effect, more than ten thousand unsuspecting young athletes - some as young as twelve years old - were given massive doses of performance-enhancing anabolic steroids. These athletes achieved miraculous success in international competition, including the Olympics, but for many...
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America is a country that prides itself on the superlative, we are the biggest, strongest, fastest nation in the world. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? Director Chris Bell combines a mix of pop culture references, a diverse cast from elite athletes to U.S. Congressmen, with an emotional family story to illustrate the image of a "nation on steroids." When you discover that your heroes have broken the...
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From Baron Pierre de Coubertin's original objectives in establishing the modern Olympic Games to the increasingly widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs during the Cold War to the 1998 drug scandal during the Tour de France and beyond, Steroids: A New Look at Performance-Enhancing Drugs puts the social construction of steroids as a banned substance under the microscope and interprets the implications of that particular conception of steroid...
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