Artificial Athletes: The Dangers of Steroids

The page calls this Timely TV’s second film on performance-enhancing drugs. The first, Anabolic Steroids: Quest for Superman, was called “the best drug-prevention film ever made” by Jack Sullivan of the FBI, who ordered a copy for every FBI field office. Artificial Athletes is described as an update.

The page estimates that as many as 5 million people a year may be abusing these drugs to change performance, appearance, and self-image, including 175,000 high-school girls and 350,000 high-school-age boys.

Interviews include Dr. Charles Yesalis; coach Pat Connolly, who coached Olympic sprinter Evelyn Ashford and describes steroid use in the Olympics from 1964 through 1988; NFL lineman Steve Courson; bodybuilder Steve Mihalik; and New York Islanders team physician Dr. Anthony Maddallo. Blaine Keys, whose son died by suicide while using steroids, gives what the page calls the most compelling warning.

All you are doing is being a slave to the anabolic.