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Steroids: To Use or Not to Use?
Many of the most respected athletes such as Marc McGuire, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Jose Canseco have all used steroids. This drug can cause many serious physical and psychological side effects that many people are not aware of. In spite of these hazards, steroid use is still currently escalating in America's favorite past time: baseball. Professional athletes insist on taking them because they feel as though it increases their competitive advantage and athletic performance. The use of anabolic steroids causes serious health problems, it's a form of cheating, and its use should be abolished.
Steroids are man made drugs used to treat conditions that occur when the body makes abnormally low amounts of testosterone. However, other more serious side-effects aren't as well known.
"Some side-effects include liver cancer, jaundice, high blood pressure, and increase cholesterol. In addition, other risks men take when using......

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