... have the highest number of steroid users are weight-lifting and body-building. Up to ninety percent of men in these sports have reported using the drugs at some point. Football players and field athletes such as shot-putters and javelin and discuss throwers show only a slightly lower percentage. If these athletes wish to succeed, they are required to have superior ... less a failure. Perhaps they just want to get girls or to be able to look good at the beach. I did some research of my own to find out. I interviewed twenty college-aged peers. Ten of them were male and ten were female. Of...

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... Like many other things in life , high school students will find themselves taking steroids because the older kids are doing it. When a high school baseball player who is hoping for a college scholarship watches a big league slugger hitting the ball 450 feet he feels like he needs to do something to get that extra edge. That is the case a lot of times ... sport you are talking about. The reason it is so scary to see in young athletes is because, they think that they wont succeed if they are not the best football player, or fastest sprinter on the track team. The thing that many of these ...

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