Investigate steroids and performance drugs
By: Sara Latta
Series: Investigate drugs
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780766042407
Subjects: Steroid abuse; Juvenile literature; History; Steroids; Physiological effect
Description: "Find out about the history of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, how they work, their effects, and why people use and abuse them"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to steroids and performance enhancing drugs; title: History of steroids and performance enhancing drugs; title: Muscle builders: anabolic androgenic steroids, steroid precursors, and other hormones; title: Oxygen boosters: epo and blood doping; title: Speed it up; slow it down: stimulants and relaxants; title: Something on the side: creatine and other supplements; title: Diuretics and masking agents.