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Lennonite Priest
Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA
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Originally Posted by MikeSty
When they use steroids that are banned by law, then they're breaking it. I'm not sure I'd agree on vast majority, but since I have no real evidence then what the hell. I could be way wrong.
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From http://www.steroids.com/
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Fact: Anabolic steroids are synthetic substances related to the male sex hormones, called androgens. Doses taken by abusers can be up to 100 times greater than doses used for treating medical conditions!
Fact: Under Federal law it is illegal to possess or distribute anabolic steroids for non-medical uses. However, heavy demand has generated a black market with estimated sales of up to $400 million a year!
Fact: Many substances sold as anabolic steroids are diluted, contaminated, or simply fake.
Fact: Anabolic steroids were developed in the late 1930s primarily to treat hypogonadism, a condition in which the testes do not produce sufficient testosterone for normal growth, development, and sexual functioning.
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A game or two that you saw. This snippit here is remarkably shallow. Saying "but his juicing effected the outcome of a game or 2" is almost futile, hell, you could even say it's blatantly obvious ...... but that's the case with any steroid using slugger, is it not?
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I stated it was an example of 1 game.
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Well, if they really want roids out (which would mean less money for them), they could do a much better job. Period.
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Isn't that what a lifetime ban would effectively do?
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Actually, a deeper lesson would go something like this:
"MLB is teaching kids that you can make a very profitable business by exploiting players by letting them enhance themselves to hit more dingers and get more people tuned in"
.. but I digress. You could go on and on about the "they're teaching kids this" BS for hours on end.
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Selig wants stiffer penalties because he knows Congress is getting involved. It is the Players Union that refused and set the standard 10 day suspension. In fact Selig fought hard to get the anonymity clause out so that people would know who was shooting themselves up.
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Yeah, someone may end up coming back and saving the game. For all I know, he might as well be using steroids - and if he does, I don't blame him one bit.
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Do you truly even know the effects of steroids? Do you know what happens to the person after they take them? Did you ever see Lyle Alzado at the end of his life?
I'd rather be a heroin or crack addict then to go through what these people will go through.
Again from: http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/Steroids.html
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Today, athletes and others abuse anabolic steroids to enhance performance and also to improve physical appearance. Anabolic steroids are taken orally or injected, typically in cycles of weeks or months (referred to as “cycling”), rather than continuously. Cycling involves taking multiple doses of steroids over a specific period of time, stopping for a period, and starting again. In addition, users often combine several different types of steroids to maximize their effectiveness while minimizing negative effects (referred to as “stacking”).
Health Hazards
The major side effects from abusing anabolic steroids can include liver tumors and cancer, jaundice (yellowish pigmentation of skin, tissues, and body fluids), fluid retention, high blood pressure, increases in LDL (bad cholesterol), and decreases in HDL (good cholesterol). Other side effects include kidney tumors, severe acne, and trembling. In addition, there are some gender-specific side effects:
For men — shrinking of the testicles, reduced sperm count, infertility, baldness, development of breasts, increased risk for prostate cancer.
For women — growth of facial hair, male-pattern baldness, changes in or cessation of the menstrual cycle, enlargement of the clitoris, deepened voice.
For adolescents — growth halted prematurely through premature skeletal maturation and accelerated puberty changes. This means that adolescents risk remaining short for the remainder of their lives if they take anabolic steroids before the typical adolescent growth spurt.
In addition, people who inject anabolic steroids run the added risk of contracting or transmitting HIV/AIDS or hepatitis, which causes serious damage to the liver.
Scientific research also shows that aggression and other psychiatric side effects may result from abuse of anabolic steroids. Many users report feeling good about themselves while on anabolic steroids, but researchers report that extreme mood swings also can occur, including manic-like symptoms leading to violence. Depression often is seen when the drugs are stopped and may contribute to dependence on anabolic steroids. Researchers report also that users may suffer from paranoid jealousy, extreme irritability, delusions, and impaired judgment stemming from feelings of invincibility.
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Yeah, it's worth letting people kill themselves, and become possible menaces to society as they beat the hell out of people in 'roid rages.
It's worth it to watch these guys become heroin addicts as they turn to those drugs (usually opioids, but also benzos) to calm themselves down from the 'roids...... (I see a few cases like that in the drug rehab I work every couple months.... on average maybe 1-2 cases a month, guy/lady took steroids and started shooting up to calm themselves down and fight the "'roid rage", paranoids and so on.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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