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Article: Athletes and steroids: playing a deadly game.
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- November 1, 1987
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Athletes and Steroids: Playing a Deadly Game
Politics and sports usually don't mix too much, but the legacy of just such a mixture some 30 years ago has left modern America with another serious drug problem--abuse of anabolic steroids.
The Russians provided the politics in the 1950s when they gave their athletes--both men and women--a male hormone called testosterone that apparently helped the competitors build muscle. As a result, they dominated many international sports events at the time.
An American doctor, who was later to regret his action, sought to even the score in those coldest of the Cold War days by developing for our athletes a ...