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This is not the first time I read something like this, great article
http://www.dailyrepublic.com/articles/2005/06/24/columnists/newssillanpaa.txt
Don't believe the hype; steroids might not be so dangerous
It turns out that nobody really knows whether or not steroids do any long-term damage to people who use them.
Watch HBO's "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel" to get the whole lowdown. I'll make it quick, because HBO will probably only air the show 35 or 40 times in the next month and I want everybody to get the nut of the steroid story done by former Sports Illustrated writer Armen Keteyian.
Keteyian reported that anabolic steroids were made illegal in the United States when Congress passed legislation in the 1980s that was opposed by the Food & Drug Administration, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the American Medical Association.
You read correctly. The FDA, DEA and AMA all fought to keep steroids legal in the United States.
Look, I'm 48 and my body is failing fast. If the people who know drugs have no beef with steroids, I'd like a case of the anabolics with a side of human growth hormone - to go.
Well, it turns out that there hasn't been one long-term study done to determine the effects of steroid use on the human body. Not one study. The doctor Keteyian interviewed, who testified in Congressional hearings on steroid use in professional sports, could only repeat that the possible risks of steroid us is too great.
Thanks, doc! Let me worry about the risk since I know just as much about it as you do.
Oh, that's right, athletes have died from steroid use, haven't they?
Football fans recall that NFL star Lyle Alzado went public and said his use of steroids brought on the brain tumor and cancer that would eventually take his life.
HBO reports that Alzado's doctors stated that steroids had nothing to do with Alzado's cancer. And, as Keteyian said, Alzado became "the public face of steroid use" in America.
If he didn't die from steroid-related illness, most of us based our feelings about the stuff on a lie.
This isn't exactly breakfast-table chatter, but I'm excited. Like I said, a shot here and a tablet there and I might be able to see without glasses, hear better and work out long enough to chase the moon every night.
The 70-year-old man who has been using steroids for 30 or 40 years is worth thinking about over your Wheaties and toast. (I nearly spit my Lucky Charms across the room when I heard that testosterone injections can keep a man young.)
The guy looks 50 and hasn't suffered any side effect of using steroids. He swears steroids are a medical miracle. He won a body-building contest when he really was 50 - beating men in their 20s. Since he's 70, he can legally obtain testosterone injections in his home state of Arizona. Hormone replacement therapy, he claims, is magic.
My new favorite senior citizen also knows of 2,500 others who have used steroids for an extended period and never been sick a day in their lives. Write the guy off if you like, but he took a two-year stint in prison in the '80s because he refused to show any remorse for selling steroids. Go to jail? Say steroids are bad? The guy went to jail.
You thought you knew all about steroids, right? Watch HBO and then think about how quickly we should believe what other people only think they know is true.
http://www.dailyrepublic.com/articles/2005/06/24/columnists/newssillanpaa.txt
Don't believe the hype; steroids might not be so dangerous
It turns out that nobody really knows whether or not steroids do any long-term damage to people who use them.
Watch HBO's "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel" to get the whole lowdown. I'll make it quick, because HBO will probably only air the show 35 or 40 times in the next month and I want everybody to get the nut of the steroid story done by former Sports Illustrated writer Armen Keteyian.
Keteyian reported that anabolic steroids were made illegal in the United States when Congress passed legislation in the 1980s that was opposed by the Food & Drug Administration, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the American Medical Association.
You read correctly. The FDA, DEA and AMA all fought to keep steroids legal in the United States.
Look, I'm 48 and my body is failing fast. If the people who know drugs have no beef with steroids, I'd like a case of the anabolics with a side of human growth hormone - to go.
Well, it turns out that there hasn't been one long-term study done to determine the effects of steroid use on the human body. Not one study. The doctor Keteyian interviewed, who testified in Congressional hearings on steroid use in professional sports, could only repeat that the possible risks of steroid us is too great.
Thanks, doc! Let me worry about the risk since I know just as much about it as you do.
Oh, that's right, athletes have died from steroid use, haven't they?
Football fans recall that NFL star Lyle Alzado went public and said his use of steroids brought on the brain tumor and cancer that would eventually take his life.
HBO reports that Alzado's doctors stated that steroids had nothing to do with Alzado's cancer. And, as Keteyian said, Alzado became "the public face of steroid use" in America.
If he didn't die from steroid-related illness, most of us based our feelings about the stuff on a lie.
This isn't exactly breakfast-table chatter, but I'm excited. Like I said, a shot here and a tablet there and I might be able to see without glasses, hear better and work out long enough to chase the moon every night.
The 70-year-old man who has been using steroids for 30 or 40 years is worth thinking about over your Wheaties and toast. (I nearly spit my Lucky Charms across the room when I heard that testosterone injections can keep a man young.)
The guy looks 50 and hasn't suffered any side effect of using steroids. He swears steroids are a medical miracle. He won a body-building contest when he really was 50 - beating men in their 20s. Since he's 70, he can legally obtain testosterone injections in his home state of Arizona. Hormone replacement therapy, he claims, is magic.
My new favorite senior citizen also knows of 2,500 others who have used steroids for an extended period and never been sick a day in their lives. Write the guy off if you like, but he took a two-year stint in prison in the '80s because he refused to show any remorse for selling steroids. Go to jail? Say steroids are bad? The guy went to jail.
You thought you knew all about steroids, right? Watch HBO and then think about how quickly we should believe what other people only think they know is true.
