steroids

Explores the use and abuse of high-risk performance drugs, how they effect the body, and laws that have been enacted to ban their distribution.

Discusses the short-term and long-term effects and dangers of steroid drug use, recounts the stories of various people who have abused them, and explains how to get help with this problem.

Explores the controversy surrounding performance-enhancing drugs, discussing their use, their effects, use within individual sports and arguments for and against drug testing for athletes.

Performance-enhancing drugs have tainted the accomplishments of athletes in many sports, especially at professional and Olympic levels. Traced are the issues related to athletes and drug use, its testing and debates whether testing is helping curb drug use.

It can also result in dependence or addiction. This book raises awareness of the dangers of misusing prescription drugs. Personal stories are shared through sidebars and a substantial resource section complements the reading experience.

When Coach Reeves retired, he was replaced by Coach Barnes, whose own determination to obtain a college post rested on his ability to create a division one high school team; however, to do this involved the illegal distribution of steroids to the team.

Contains fifteen essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to performance enhancing drugs, including their physiological effects, antidoping policies, drug testing, the use of performance enhancing drugs among teens, and other topics; and provides contact information for organizations and a bibliography.

Discusses steroids' harmful effects on the body, the reasons people turn to steroids, the use of steroids by athletes, and proposed solutions to the problem of steroid use.

To increase his chances of winning a college scholarship, a talented high school quarterback risks his health by taking anabolic steroids to gain weight.

Focuses on the how steroids affect the body and what sports groups are doing to discontinue their use.