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Barry Bonds, the San Francisco Giants’ love-him-or-hate-him home-run king, connected with home run number 756 against the Washington Nationals this week, surpassing Hank Aaron’s legendary 755 and securing a historic niche in baseball’s record books for lifetime home runs. But Bonds already holds a different niche in baseball history – or perhaps in the history of all athletics – as the most notorious alleged consumer of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports. Whether Bonds did or didn’t use the banned drugs is another story. But anabolic steroids are so commonly used by athletes that it’s only a matter of time before a star athlete decides to come clean and handle his drug abuse by checking into a facility for a thorough Drug Detox.
Anabolic steroids are used by athletes to build lean muscle mass. Even though banned by most pro sport leagues because of the unfair advantage they confer on users, the drugs remain popular. Steroids deliver numerous unpleasant side-effects, as well as some which pose threats to health and even to life. Also, the addictive properties of steroids add to the argument by sports fans and media for better controls and stronger penalties for abusers.
Along with more frequent testing and tougher penalties, mandatory drug detox programs might not be a bad idea. Rules that include “you’re out of all games until you successfully detox” would accomplish a couple of positive results:
1. Mandatory drug detox would help deter athletes from dabbling with steroids or any other banned performance enhancing drugs.
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3. Mandatory drug detox would help steroid abusers get clean and stay clean, enhancing their health and the health of their sport.
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Another very good reason for someone who’s been abusing steroids to use a drug detox program is because withdrawal from steroids is the main cause of unpredictable violence – known as ‘roid rage’ among athletes. Treatment should involve the best, most modern drug detox and drug rehab procedures available.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has cited aggression, paranoid jealousy, extreme irritability, delusions, impaired judgment and feelings of invincibility as steroid abuse side effects. Others include liver tumors, cancer, acne, shrinking of the testicles, reduced sperm count and infertility, male development of breasts, increased risk of prostate cancer, and stunted growth in teenagers not yet fully grown. To avoid these problems, people abusing anabolic steroids should consider drug detox.
Although he’s been a key figure in the BALCO steroids scandal, Bonds has never failed a steroid test. And although he is under investigation for perjury by a federal grand jury regarding his testimony in the BALCO case, he still has not been indicted.
So the jury is still out on America’s infamous poster boy for steroid abuse. Nevertheless we cannot deny he’s one of the most talented baseball players to come along in a long time. Whether or not Bonds used performance-enhancing drugs to morph from just a great hitter into a positively terrifying one, he is now the all-time home-run ruler, and we’re stuck with it.
Meanwhile, any athlete yearning to make the record-books by beefing up on steroids should never forget that researchers at Yale found long-term steroid abuse causes all the classic signs of drug addiction – craving it, inability to stop using it, and dangerous withdrawal symptoms. A drug detox programand a successful drug rehab are the only solution to help steroid abusers kick their habits and clean up themselves, and the sports we love.
Rod is a Florida based freelance writer who contributes articles on health.
Contact: info@novusdetox.com
Need help finding a book to effectively prove my thesis?
I want to find a book or two to for a paper I have to write for my history class. Any help will be appreciated.
Here’s my thesis statement: Because of an increase in effective drugs, psychiatric treatment has become more reliant on medicational regimes than other forms of therapy.
Well, if you want literary references that include journal articles like most students would use but mainly at the graduate level, I’d try google scholar typing in “psychiatric treatment reliant” in quotes to get the exact same words with all the matching articles to be found.
However I’d also recommend using JAMA or JAPA authors and looking to see if they have books though these magazines/journals can be enough reliant.
Professor Bernard Lerer on ‘Pharmacogenetics of Antipsychotic Drug Treatment’
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Sugar Town $1.98 Unimpassioned look at the lives of struggling L.A. scene rock stars follows main character, Gwen (Jade Gordon), on her quest for the top. Working as an assistant to a film production designer (Ally Sheedy), she tries to steal her boy friend (Larry Klein) who is a music producer by offering sexual favors. The producer meanwhile is trying to orchestrate a comeback for a former glam band played by Mi… |
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Alcoholics Anonymous: The Big Book, 4th Edition $9.40 It’s more than a book. It’s a way of life. Alcoholics Anonymous-The Big Book-has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. With publication of the second edition in 1955, the third edition in 1976, and now the fourth edit… |
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Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects – Steps Six and Seven $7.79 Resentment. Fear. Self-Pity. Intolerance. Anger. This cast of character defects will undermine the best-laid plans for recovery from addiction. It’s not uncommon for individuals in recovery to hang on to negative, self-defeating behaviors after they’ve given up their addiction. These are the “rocks” that can sink recovery – or, at the least, block further progress. With more than 100,000 copies so… |
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Codependent No More Workbook $8.89 Through hands-on guided journaling, exercises, and self-tests, readers will learn to integrate the time-tested concepts outlined in Codependent No More into their daily lives by setting and enforcing healthy limits developing a support system through healthy relationships with others and a higher power experiencing genuine love and forgiveness letting go and detaching from others’ harmful behavio… |
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Network Therapy for Alcohol and Drug Abuse: Effective Office-Based Treatment [VHS] $39.97 Treatment of substance abuse is challenging for all involvedAfor addicted patients, those close to them, and the treating therapists. This informative video shows how a therapist complements individual sessions with supportive meetings with the patient, family, and friends to surmount major obstacles to recovery. The video portrays reenacted therapy sessions using transcripts from actual sessions … |
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Tough Love: Being Tough on Your Kid May Be the Most Loving Thing You Can Do $55.00 In this story, assistant high school principal Rob Charters (Bruce Dern) and his wife Jan (Lee Remick) are good suburban parents with one model child Scott (Eric Schiff) and a 17 year old son Gary (Jason Patric) who has been using drugs. Gary’s violent behavior convinces Rob and Jan that to save Gary they must lock him out, refuse to help him when he is jailed and let him live in poverty. For the … |
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Therabath Professional Paraffin Bath, Scentfree, Maximum Capacity, 9-Pound $148.97 For Hands, Feet, Face and Body since 1962 For over 90 years paraffin moist heat therapy has been used to relieve pain, inflammation and stiffness caused by arthritis. A form of thermotherapy, paraffin treatments effectively increase blood flow to aid in rehabilitation, or to warm an area of the body prior to other therapies or exercise. Warm paraffin is also used extensively to soften dry, crack… |
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Glymed Plus Vital A About The Age Management Skin Care System: The Age Management Skin Care System addresses the individual challenges of chronologically injured, photo-aged and environmentally damaged skin. This System is a complete line of products that gently cleanse, actively treat, restore balance, and protect even the most sensitive skin for all skin types and all skin colors for cellular rehabilitation. Vital… |
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Rehab Suggestion Humor Card 5 x 7 inch premium quality folded paper greeting card. 12 Step Addiction Recovery cards & photo 12 Step Addiction Recovery cards from Greeting Card Universe will bring a smile to your loved ones’ face. Make your loved ones feel special with a custom paper card. Look no further than Greeting Card Universe for your 12 Step Addiction Recovery card needs. This paper card includes the following themes:… |
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When a Man Loves a Woman $2.89 When a Man Loves a Woman is a dumb title (not another classic pop song, please) for a very smart movie. A kind of gender-switch take on The Lost Weekend, it’s about a woman (Meg Ryan) whose alcoholism almost destroys her family. That may sound like just another TV movie, but When a Man Loves a Woman is so authentic in detail and emotion, that everything about it seems fresh, urgent, and engrossing… |
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