doping in sports

Provides athletes with information about the side effects and dangers of using drugs and supplements to increase performance.

Provides an overview on the issues of drugs in sports.

Provides information about steroids and their effects on physical health and on sports.

Contains sixteen articles that provide varying perspectives on steroids, discussing why they are used, their use by athletes, their effects, and their regulation.

The author reveals how he discovered and used anabolic steroids in order to enhance his performance in baseball and tells how he passed on that information to other players to the point where steroid use became the norm throughout the major league.

Looks at steroid use in professional and high-performance sports from a historical perspective, exploring questions of how sports became so focused on performance and victory at any cost, what were the reasons for the ban on performance-enhancing substances, and why steroids more than any other substance became so demonized.

Contains fourteen articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to athletes and drug use, debating whether drug use among athletes should be illegal, what the consequences of drug use should be, and how to curb drug use among student athletes.

Examines the physical and psychological effects of steroid use and includes a section on where to go for help in fighting steroid abuse.

Discusses if rampant accusations of widespread steroid use have ruined sports and asks the question: have all the amazing accomplishments athletes have worked so hard to achieve been diminished by relentless and repeated accusations of "juicing"?.

Jim Gullo knew that in recent years something had not been quite right with baseball. In December 2007 Joe's young son was beginning to share Jim's passion for the game. Only then the news of players' steroid use hit the news. And Jim found himself explaining steroid use to his son instead of the game he loved. He decided to start to make things right by removing suspected drug users from his baseball card collection and their posters from his walls. And then he and his son started traveling to games from coast to coast to see if they could find the truth.