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Steroids
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Beyond Myth: When Steroids Are Just a Fact of Life
For powerlifter Mark Bell, using anabolic steroids to bench-press 600 pounds isn’t right, or wrong; it’s simply the way things work.
Everybody’s Juicing
The latest raids of undercover steroid labs suggest the market for steroids goes way beyond the world of elite athletes.
Weak Sanctions: A Major Shift in Anti-Doping Strategy
Anti-doping investigators say they would rather trade leniency for information on coaches and other athletes involved in doping.
Why Are Synthetic Hormones Off-Limits in Sports?
Our bodies naturally create hundreds of hormones that are key to determining our athletic abilities. But the introduction of unnatural hormones raises important questions about how we define sex and gender.
Your Kids Don’t Care That Their Favorite Athlete Did Steroids
Brandon Sneed spoke to a Yale professor about what happens to kids who find out that their heroes lied to them, and how their parents should handle it.
Teen Steroid Use Suppresses Submissiveness
New research on hamsters suggests steroid use produces greater long-term behavioral problems in males when the drugs are administered during adolescence.
Academic Coverage of Sports and Steroids
More than 20 years of published articles on performance-enhancing drugs have ranged from identifying the damage the drugs have on the individual to the damage they have on society as a whole.