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Author Assael, Shaun.

Title Steroid nation : juiced home run totals, anti-aging miracles, and a Hercules in every high school : the secret history of America's true drug addiction / Shaun Assael.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : ESPN Books, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.29 As72s 2007    ---  Available
 FSCC Non-Fiction  362.29 As72s 2007    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvii, 349 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-305) and index.
Contents The guru of Venice -- "Zee codes, zey are missing" -- Mules, threesomes, and mom -- The running man -- Inside job -- Blow out -- The biggest believers -- Mormon money -- The perfect pitch -- Solace and sex -- 'Cause I'm TNT, I'm dynamite! -- The king is dead -- The right stuff -- A bully pulpit -- The scientist strikes back -- The two Arnolds -- State of the Union -- This is war -- A vicious cycle -- Growing pains.
Summary An investigative journalist looks at America's complex relationship with steroids and how it has become the country's most dangerous and pervasive drug addiction, examining the high incidence of steroid use throughout the world of sports.
Subject Doping in sports -- United States.
Athletes -- Drug use -- United States.
Anabolic steroids.
Athletes -- Drug use.
Steroids.
Drug abuse.
ISBN 1933060379
9781933060378
Standard No. NZ1 11552695

 
    
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