Thread: steroid

Almost every sport has a steroid scandal of its own—track and field, bodybuilding, weight lifting, and football, to name a few. More than 20 college football players from a number of U.S. universities were barred from playing in the postseason bowl games because of steroid use. In the world of professional football, one famed 14-year NFL veteran was quoted as saying: "On some teams, between 75 and 90 percent of all athletes use steroids." Reported the magazine Psychology Today: "Many of those . . . interviewed put steroid use among competitive body-builders at 100 percent."
Furthermore, the abuse of steroids is not limited to professional and collegiate athletes. Today, steroids are widely used by both male and female bodybuilders and athletes and also by boys not yet in their teens.
Dr. William N. Taylor, a member of the U.S. Olympic Drug Control Program, warned that the use of these drugs has reached "epidemic proportions." How far-reaching is this epidemic? Taylor noted that in addition to athletes, accountants and professors as well as unskilled workers and police officers abuse steroids. "It’s not a sports problem anymore," he said, "it’s a social problem. And these users are playing with dynamite."
Anabolic steroids are powerful synthetic versions of the male hormone testosterone. Over the years steroids have been used clinically, and under careful supervision, as an aid in bringing on puberty that is delayed, in building up muscles withered by disease or surgery, and for the protection of blood cells during radiation or chemotherapy. For these and other physiological problems apparent to doctors, steroids have been a potent tool in the hands of the medical profession.
In the 1950’s Russian doctors and scientists reasoned that by giving athletes megadoses of the male hormone testosterone, muscles and body mass should build up more quickly, thus enhancing the performance of their athletes. Their goal was to empower them to run faster, jump higher, throw the discus and javelin farther, lift heavier weights, and excel in all power events. As a result, Russian athletes went into the world arena of international sports competition with a marked edge, dominating most of the sports events at the time.
Nationalism raised its ugly head. An American doctor decided to even the odds on the sports battlefield by formulating a synthetic form of anabolic steroid—a drug related to testosterone—that was easier and cheaper to produce, with the option of being taken in pill form or by injection. The doctor’s formula proved alarmingly successful. Bigger bodies and better sports performances through chemistry were now possible. The sports war was on!
There are also those on an ego trip. "Bulging muscles are in," said an official of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "Guys want to look good at the beach. High-school kids think steroids may enhance their ability to get an athletic scholarship, play pro sports or win the girl of their heart." The Wall Street Journal, October 4, 1988, reported: "Hundreds of thousands of American teen-agers are taking anabolic steroids, orally or by injection, to play better or to simply look better."

Originally Posted by george123

Almost every sport has a steroid scandal of its own—track and field, bodybuilding, weight lifting, and football, to name a few. More than 20 college football players from a number of U.S. universities were barred from playing in the postseason bowl games because of steroid use. In the world of professional football, one famed 14-year NFL veteran was quoted as saying: "On some teams, between 75 and 90 percent of all athletes use steroids." Reported the magazine Psychology Today: "Many of those . . . interviewed put steroid use among competitive body-builders at 100 percent."
Furthermore, the abuse of steroids is not limited to professional and collegiate athletes. Today, steroids are widely used by both male and female bodybuilders and athletes and also by boys not yet in their teens.
Dr. William N. Taylor, a member of the U.S. Olympic Drug Control Program, warned that the use of these drugs has reached "epidemic proportions." How far-reaching is this epidemic? Taylor noted that in addition to athletes, accountants and professors as well as unskilled workers and police officers abuse steroids. "It’s not a sports problem anymore," he said, "it’s a social problem. And these users are playing with dynamite."
Anabolic steroids are powerful synthetic versions of the male hormone testosterone. Over the years steroids have been used clinically, and under careful supervision, as an aid in bringing on puberty that is delayed, in building up muscles withered by disease or surgery, and for the protection of blood cells during radiation or chemotherapy. For these and other physiological problems apparent to doctors, steroids have been a potent tool in the hands of the medical profession.
In the 1950’s Russian doctors and scientists reasoned that by giving athletes megadoses of the male hormone testosterone, muscles and body mass should build up more quickly, thus enhancing the performance of their athletes. Their goal was to empower them to run faster, jump higher, throw the discus and javelin farther, lift heavier weights, and excel in all power events. As a result, Russian athletes went into the world arena of international sports competition with a marked edge, dominating most of the sports events at the time.
Nationalism raised its ugly head. An American doctor decided to even the odds on the sports battlefield by formulating a synthetic form of anabolic steroid—a drug related to testosterone—that was easier and cheaper to produce, with the option of being taken in pill form or by injection. The doctor’s formula proved alarmingly successful. Bigger bodies and better sports performances through chemistry were now possible. The sports war was on!
There are also those on an ego trip. "Bulging muscles are in," said an official of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "Guys want to look good at the beach. High-school kids think steroids may enhance their ability to get an athletic scholarship, play pro sports or win the girl of their heart." The Wall Street Journal, October 4, 1988, reported: "Hundreds of thousands of American teen-agers are taking anabolic steroids, orally or by injection, to play better or to simply look better."

He asked "what's your point?"

Answer him goddammit!!!!