anabolic steroids

Examines the sources, uses, and effects of steroids in sports and society.

Explains how anabolic steroids affect the body, describes laws regarding them, and discusses prevention, treatment, and healthy fitness.

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.

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.

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

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.