doping in sports

Examines the dangers of drug use in sports, discussing such substances as prescription drugs, alcohol, cocaine, pain relievers, steroids, and tobacco.

Examines steroids, with an emphasis on anabolic steroids, discussing their effects on the body, dangers, and use in sports.

Reveals steroids' dangerous side effects, provides suggested treatments, the legal consequences of using illegal steroids, and safer ways to achieve the same results.

Through objective discussion see how over the past decade, the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs by professional and amateur athletes at elite levels have made headlines in newspapers across the country and beyond.

Investigates the allegations of doping against cyclists Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis, interviewing cycling insiders and discussing Armstrong's intense ambition, the pair's years of competition, and the reasons athletes fall to the pressure to use performance-enhancing drugs.

Presents sixteen essays on performance-enhancing drugs, presenting background information and opposing viewpoints on such issues as the degree of health risk, regulation versus prohibition, and the effectiveness of drug testing.

An exploration of the debate over athletes who are caught using performance enhancing drugs that defines doping and discusses tests, penalties, both sides of the argument, and other related topics.

Examines the history of performance enhancement drugs used by athletes, covering events and incidents from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, and discusses various sports doping scandals.

Explores the seamier side of sports and focuses on the problems society faces: violence, drug abuse, cheating, and sexual and racial discrimination.

Presents a comprehensive examination of the use of steroids within major league baseball in the years following the 1994 players' strike, and describes how and when it began and what baseball's leadership knew.