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that of your daughter,

of your son,

or yours.

Physicians and sports

scientists have done that

with the best of

intentions in this area-

"Oh, steroids

are going to cause you

to drop over dead

in your tracks" and so on.

And the athletes are looking

around saying, "Jesus,

haven't seen

that many guys die. "

Are steroids

killing people?

Steroids clearly are

killing people

both in the short term

and in the long term.

CHRIS:
Dr. Gary Wadler is an advisor

to the world anti-doping agency

and the media's go-to guy

when it comes to steroids.

We know it's been associated

with stroke

in young people

for which there was no

other obvious explanation.

We know it's been

associated with heart attacks

for which there was no

other obvious explanation.

We know

it increases clotting.

What bothers me are people

like Dr. Gary Wadler

who's a physician

and going before Congress

and saying these things,

and when confronted-

"Please produce

a single article

that shows any of this in any

scientific way," can't do it.

CHRIS:
Dr. Norm Fost is a

professor of medical ethics

with a research focus on

performance-enhancing drugs.

So I'm not denying

that there aren't

some serious adverse effects

from anabolic steroids.

It's just that we haven't been

able to demonstrate any of them.

Maybe that's because

we don't study them.

One of the problems

with the ban on steroids

is that it's impossible

to do the kind of research

that would answer

these questions.

Some purists would like

to see those studies done.

Well, I can assure you

they never will be done.

It would be a totally

unethical study to do.

So we have to use the

information we have at hand.

Depression, convulsions,

anxiety, jaundice,

myocardial infarction-

which is heart attack-

eczema, abscess,

vaginal pain,

vaginal discharge.

You wanna know what I'm reading

this from? What does that say?

- "Vitamin c. "

- Thank you.

I mean, look, peanuts are

dangerous. You understand?

There are people

that take a peanut

and have a peanut and they

go into anaphylactic shock.

Okay? The airway closes

up. That's it. They die.

Now does that mean

that we ban peanuts

and sue God

for making them?

- No.

- Right.

What we do is we say,

"okay, peanut warnings. "

There is no safe drug.

There is no safe drug

that ever exists.

There's always

the benefit-to-risk ratio.

You name the drug-

"X" percent of people

will suffer

adverse effects.

CHRIS:
Do you feel

any side effects ever?

MARK:
Yeah, I've had

some side effects-

acne, hair growth.

Some side effects

that I've had are-

What do you mean by hair

growth? On your head?

No, just on my chest

and my back and stuff.

I never break out.

My back doesn't break out.

I don't get hairy

from it.

You get a little

testicular atrophy,

but then they come back.

It's normal.

- Your balls shrank?

- The balls shank.

- Who needs 'em?

- Who needs 'em?

What about testosterone?

I have some friends who say

it is like a wonder drug.

It makes them feel great.

It makes them feel,

you know, frisky

and young and it's

great for their skin.

The negative side effects would

be my lovely singing voice,

hair like a monkey

from my head to my toes,

I mean, hair growing out places

you don't even want to talk about.

I mean,

I want to stay feminine.

And I think that's why

I get so much work.

It's because I still

look like a woman

and I still have

hard muscles.

DR. COLKER:

In my experience,

steroids are just gonna make

you more of whatever you are.

If you're a jerk

and you take steroids

- You're a super jerk, right?

- An a**hole.

You've seen that, right? You

go beyond. You're an a**hole.

ANDEE:
I've never seen Roid Rage.

I've never seen any

difference in his personality

or how he is with me,

how he is with Jake.

It hasn't done

anything

that all those after-school

specials tell you that it's gonna do.

Bryce, I gotta

get bigger, man.

- Here, this might help.

- Steroids?

WOMAN:
What is going on with you?

God damn it!

CHRIS:
While I was visiting

my brother and his family

they told me they were

thinking of having another child

but that another possible side

effect of steroids was on their minds.

If you couldn't have

another kid

would it be something

that you'd regret

because you did

steroids?

Yeah. If it was

simply from that, yeah.

I'd probably regret it.

But there's a lot of things

people regret in their

lives, so I'm not, you know-

it's a decision I made and it's

a decision I'll have to live with,

whatever

the consequences are.

CHRIS:
It's been 15

years since Alzado died.

- Why did you lie to me?

- I was afraid...

CHRIS:
Looking back at

Maria Shriver's interview

I can't help

but wonder,

why wasn't she asking

the real questions like

"is this gonna happen

to my husband?"

Did she really

believe Lyle

or was this

just the beginning

of the steroid myth?

And even though the experts

know a lot more about steroids,

you sure wouldn't know it

from watching the news.

Tonight, one of the nation's

most serious drug problems

and it's only getting worse.

It's steroids.

Professional wrestler

Chris Benoit

killed his wife,

his seven-year-old son,

and then hung himself.

Why did he do it?

Steroids found in the house.

Steroids cause

suicidal tendencies.

MAN:
They hallucinate.

They hear voices.

MAN #2:

Depression, paranoia.

Steroids could be

the actual cause...

Speculation

is running wild.

Do you think these drugs

could affect one's mind?

Now we know.

- Testosterone...

- Steroids...

CHRIS:

Let's cut through the crap.

This is steroids 101.

First of all,

the term "steroids"

Is often misused to describe

any performance-enhancing drug

When in fact

many of these drugs

are not actually

steroids at all.

So what are steroids?

Well, steroids are

synthetic versions

of hormones that your body

produces naturally,

like cortisone-

that's a steroid.

It signals the body

to break down inflammation.

Birth control pills

are steroids too

Made from the female

sex hormones

estrogen

and progesterone.

But the steroids that get

all the negative attention

are anabolic steroids,

Made from the male

sex hormone testosterone

which tells the body to

increase muscle size and strength

and helps to recover

from workouts faster.

Like any drug, anabolic

steroids do have side effects.

And if you abuse them the

side effects will be worse.

For men,

they can cause acne,

hair growth,

raised cholesterol,

shrink your testicles

and lower your sperm count,

which could even

make you sterile.

But all of these

side effects

are reversible

when you go off the drugs.

Otherwise, steroids

don't cause baldness,

but if it runs

in your family

they might make you

go bald faster.

And they can also cause

gynecomastia,

or what the gym rats call

"b*tch tits. "

For women, in addition

to acne and hair growth,

steroids can cause a deepened

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