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Last spring doctors administered a dose of radioactive iodine to slow down the First Lady's hyperactive thyroid. But treatment with a steroid, prednisone, failed to cure her vision problems. Should the radiation treatments (in which low-intensity rays are focused on swollen tissues behind the eyes) prove no more effective, the next step could be surgery...
...doctors say such preliminary results do not justify indiscriminate use of HGH. Already the hormone has begun to appear on the black market. As sports officials have cracked down on steroids, some athletes have resorted to injecting HGH in a foolhardy effort to build themselves up. Unlike steroid abuse, HGH use cannot be picked up in routine drug tests. Experts warn, however, that the hormone injections may be dangerous. Researchers fear that high doses of HGH taken over a long period of time could produce such side effects as joint-cartilage problems, diabetes, arthritis and heart disease...
...results were spectacular. Johnson, initially a scrawny sprinter, bulked up like a wrestler. In August 1987, he shattered the 100-meter world record with a stunning 9.83-sec. performance at the Rome track-and-field championships, a feat that Francis claims was aided by an extensive anabolic- steroid program. But John Holt, general secretary of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, has said there are no grounds for nullifying the seemingly tainted record, because Johnson tested negative for the drugs after that key race. The Jamaican-born sprinter, 27, had no such luck after his 9.79 sprint in Seoul...
What about the steroid rumors...
...former user. "It doesn't work that way." Bulging biceps and ham-hock thighs do a fast fade when the chemicals are halted. So do the feelings of being powerful and manly. Almost every user winds up back on the drugs. A self-image that relies on a steroid-soaked body may be difficult to change. Chamberlain has a friend, now 29, who has been taking steroids for more than a dozen years. Says Chamberlain: "His mind is so warped that he said he doesn't care if he dies, so long as he looks big in the coffin...