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       DANGERS OR RISK OF BLACK  MARKET STEROIDS
       By: Road2HardCoreIron Date: April 25, 2021, 5:16 pm
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       [Dangers and risks of black market anabolic steroid abuse in
       sports --gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses]
       [Article in German]
       M Ritsch, F Musshoff
       PMID: 10859788 DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-7396
       Abstract
       Anabolic steroids have become increasingly popular among
       athletes even at subcompetitive or recreational level instead of
       extensive doping tests, educational campaigns and lethal
       incidents. Nowadays, the fitness boom has also produced a
       population of steroid users at high school level and also under
       non-sports practicing children. After opening the borders to
       East Europe an explosion of the black-market for anabolic
       steroids occurred. Beside the well-known side effects of
       anabolic steroids new problems and risks occurred due to fake
       drugs from the black market. This review ist subdivided into two
       parts: We provide a detailed review of the literature an
       anabolic steroids to the reader the information needed to make
       an informed decision an the relative risks and benefits of
       anabolic steroids. Secondly, we evaluated 40 "anabolic steroids"
       obtained from the black market using mass spectrometry or gas
       chromatography analysis to evaluate the real pharmacological
       compounds. As the results of this analysis, we found that 15
       (37.5%) these drugs contained different or any pharmacological
       compounds as labeled. From the external packing, a
       differentiation between original and the fake drugs was
       impossible. Therefore, a large information and credibility gap
       concerning anabolic steroids particular those from the black
       market exists between the athletes and the medical and
       scientific communities. We believe that this gap can only be
       closed if both groups are be better informed about anabolic
       steroids.
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