... botched liposuctions, breast augmentations and other cosmetic surgery procedures in the past few years than in nearly fifty years of anabolic steroid use by athletes." (http://www.mesomorphosis.com/articles/collins/wrong-prescription.htm) The effects of steroids are exaggerated. The effects of steroids are as ... short term effects of steroids. Depression and bad temper are equally bad. I do not think that shrinkage of body parts, hair growth, and acne are reasons to bar a drug. Someone who thinks steroids should be barred will say that some of the effects of steroids are fatal and ... ...

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... players, swimmers, and runners. They do so because they mistakenly believe that they will gain strength and size. In a male, testosterone is released by the cells in the testes. The testosterone has two main functions androgenic and anabolic. Androgenic is the development of male sex characteristics. Anabolic is the ... there not supposed to some of the masculinizing effects of testosterone still show on users of anabolic steroid. People whom use them sometimes develop acne, depend voice, abnormal hair growth. Some of these side effects can not be reversed. The most severe effect of an...

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... growth. Those are the steroids that we are talking about. In the United States, anabolic steroids are illegal except if prescribed for medical reasons by a physician. Major League Baseball is no exception either. As of right now the MLB has no testing done that would confirm or deny whether ... anabolic steroids include liver tumors and cancer, jaundice, retention of fluid, high blood pressure, hear attacks and strokes, increases in LDL, kidney cancer, acne and trembling. Men may find their testes shrink, sperm count falls with increase of infertility, their hair falls out, breasts star...

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