Despite the disagreement, virtually all doctors, Crusaders or not, could agree that
anabolic steroids were lethal to the human system. They were certain that some of the
more powerful steroids, such as Deca-durabolin, Winstrol, and stanozolol, were major threats to the heart, the liver, and the kidneys.
Deca-durabolin, for example, was a particularly nasty steroid that had been in use among weightlifters since the 1960s. Users of the powerful yet lethal drug were
highly susceptible to kidney malfunction and liver and pituitary tumors. To Robert Cantu, the noted Boston neurosurgeon who specialized in catastrophic sports injury, athletes were involved in a high-stakes poker game, in which the odds were against them and the risks were chilling. While most people knew that
steroids could cause sterility, Cantu believed it to be less known that the drugs
could affect the reproductive systems of a user’s children and grandchildren. That athletes were now willing to risk the future health of their unborn children for a big payday raised the stakes even further. (emphasis added)
Steroid hysteria is presented at its finest in ESPN Columnist Howard Bryant's book on the anabolic steroids in baseball scandal entitled "Juicing the
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