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Consequences of Steroids in Sports

Every year high school, college, and professional athletes try to get just "a little bigger,""a little stronger," and to increase the amount of weights they lift by, "just a few pounds." To achieve these goals athletes often turn to anabolic steroids to aid them in achieving their goals. Anabolic steroids are a quick, but dangerous way to increase muscle mass, and they can carry many risks including some life threatening side affects. Years after taking steroids athletes can live to have serious heart problems, sterility, or possibly not even live, all because of foolish decisions they made in the past. These potentially fatal drugs are not widely known by young athletes at all, because they don't know about the risks that can go along with them. In school, every student is taught about marijuana, cocaine,heroin, sex, liquor, and all those other health risks, but they're never taught about "roids" or "juice." (slang words for steroids) That......

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