steroids

Full-color photographs and informative text on the danger of using steroids.

Presents an examination of the illegal steroid use in sports, chronicling the investigation of professional baseball players Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi and providing a narrative overview of the investigation and its principle characters: Victor Conte, Greg Anderson, and BALCO.

Explores the history of steroids, discusses who uses them, describes the physiological effects of using them, offers advice on overcoming addiction, and comments on other performance enhancing drugs.

Craig decides to start a steroid program to improve his football performance, until "roid rage" threatens to send him out of control.

Discusses the damaging and even life-threatening side effects caused by taking anabolic steroids to build muscles and improve performance in sports.

Presents an examination of the illegal steroid use in sports, chronicling the investigation of professional baseball players Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi and providing a narrative overview of the investigation and its principle characters: Victor Conte, Greg Anderson, and BALCO.

Examines the problems and risks associated with taking steroids, and contains real-life case studies and quotes from drug users and health professionals.

Seventeen-year-old Zach, his best friend and state wrestling champion Tank, and Tank's twin sister Sarah, an Ivy League-bound scholar, are desperate to leave their depressing hometown of Blaine, Michigan, after graduation, but plans go awry when Zach uncovers a steroid scandal and falls in love with Sarah.

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

This book uses news stories and everyday applications to explain the science behind steroids.