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Monroe, Judy

Steroids, Sports, and Body Image: The Risks of Performance-Enhancing Drugs

128 pp. | Enslow | September, 2004 | Library ISBN 0-7660-2160-2 $26.60
(4) YA Issues in Focus series. The text outlines the current challenges and considerations of legalization and regulation of steroid use. The message that steroid use by elite athletes is being copied by increasingly younger girls and boys concerned not just with athletic performance but also with personal appearance is repeated too frequently. Occasional black-and-white photographs add little to the solid text. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Gail Hedges

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