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Article: Anabolic steroids - uses and abuses
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- DVM
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- April 1, 2008
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Racing industry taking steps toward controls; how substances affect horses beyond the track
At a time when alleged abuses of performance-enhancing anabolic steroids (ABS) are making headlines in many professional and Olympic sports, questions about their use in horses also are coming to the forefront.
Based on a number ol hearings, Congress appears close to legislating a ban on anabolic steroids in horseracing. The lockey Club is seeking a crackdown to clean up the integrity of the sport and in recent months more than a dozen slate racing jurisdictions have enacted or are considering controls on ABS in racing horses.
Most are adopting in some fashion the Racing Medication and Testing ...