Jomo Rogers, a naturally talented athlete, starts taking performance enhancing drugs in order to be an even better high school football player, but finds his life spinning out of control as his game improves.
Examines the real risks of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, making public facts that have been misrepresented in the media and arguing that steroids are not as dangerous as they have been portrayed and that over the counter substances such as Tylenol, Vioxx, and Viagra, are actually more dangerous.
Explores the physical and emotional effects of steroid abuse. A former user discusses the dangers of steroids, which are now estimated to be used by over one million Americans.
Discusses the ethics of performance-enhancing drugs and includes articles on such topics as steroids in professional sports and prescription drugs used for academic enhancement.
Contains fifteen articles, including both primary and secondary sources, that provide diverse perspectives on steroids, their use by high school and professional athletes, their effect on sports, and their regulation.
Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
Future physician Kate Grable is horrified when her high school's football coach gives team members steroids, but the drugs turn players into zombies and Kate must find an antidote before the flesh-eating monsters get to her or her friends.
Joseph "Gump" Larken, goalie for the Spokane Chiefs, is not bothered by playing second string to the first woman in the Western Hockey League, but he is not certain about how to handle the accusation that his closest friend on the team might be involved with illegal steroids.
