Anabolic Steroids
Since ancient history, many athletes have resorted to performance
enhancing aids to give them an edge on their opponents. Greek Olympians used
strychnine and hallucinogenic mushrooms to psych up for an event. "In 1886 a
French cyclist was the first athlete to die from using a performance enhancer,
called speedballs, a mixture of cocaine and heroin. In the 1920's, physicians
inserted slices of monkey testicles into male athletes to help boost vitality.
In the 1930's Aldof Hitler allegedly administered the hormone testosterone to
himself and his troops to increase aggressiveness" (Schrof, 54). Athletes had
already begun using the male hormone testosterone to boost performance by the
1940's. The first synthetic anabolic steroid was developed in 1953, having a
strength building effect five times stronger than the natural hormone
testosterone. Not since the development of the anabolic steroid has any
performance enhancer been so effective and so desired by......
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