Steroids: How Dangerous Are They?

When we think of steroids, we often think of their negativeimpact on sports;however, steroids have a variety of uses outside of powering up a runner or cyclist. Steroids are often prescribed by doctors to help treat muscle damage or development, as anabolic steroids...

The History of Steroids, Part 2

Picking up where we left off yesterday, we now can identify why certain drugs are banned before other performance enhancing substances, and where the use and abuse of performance enhancing drugs began. It is their recent abuse, however, that has stunned the...

The History of Steroids Part 1

No one is truly certain where using performance enhancing drugs in sports began. To really define it, we’d have to first define what is, and more importantly what isn’t, a performance enhancing drug, or PED. A PED is usually a drug that enhances one or...

Steroids and the Rio Olympics

In a month, the nations around the world will come together to participate in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While we always get a little excited for the Olympics, this year’s celebrations are mired in controversy. The threat of the Zika virus is...