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What can be done to help the postpolio sufferers? Not much, unfortunately. There are only experimental treatments. A steroid called prednisone, usually used to treat immune-system diseases like multiple sclerosis, seems to help in postpolio as well, reducing fatigue and increasing endurance. And Dr. Marinos Dalakas at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is experimenting with nerve growth factor, a protein that spurs the proliferation of nerve axons...
...still remember the steroid scandal of the football team's recent past. Maine's entire athletic program stands at a crossroads, as whispered questions of integrity mount into agonized groans of recognition--quite a come-down from last year's veneer of impenetrability surrounding college hockey's national champions...
...Hoefflin to make it smaller, make it smaller." Jackson has said it was the painful after-effects of scalp surgery that started him on his addiction to drugs. One source has told TIME Jackson may have abused prescribed Demerol, a narcotic the singer first used when he was receiving steroid treatments to soften scar tissue...
...interesting experience once when I pulled up along side a blacked-out Camaro whose sole occupant wore wrap-around sunglasses, a pink bandanna and all the indications of steroid use. I inched up a little to the light, and when it turned he thrust his V8 engine into action. Of course, he had to brake heavily to stop before the next light, but I arrived, unavoidably, slightly later than he did. Knowing that my horsepower was inferior, I decided that brains would...
...times, the problems they face aren't. A 15-year-old boy is falling in with the wrong crowd on the streets. A single mother tries to put her life back together after drug rehabilitation. The manager of a clothing store owned by the Mob is lured into a steroid-fencing scheme by an old friend. A high school basketball star is benched for a bad attitude, ruining his chance to impress a college scout. All the action takes place over a single weekend; there are crises and confrontations, small changes but no big conclusions...