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anabolic steroids  

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  • Anabolic steroids, more appropriately called anabol-ic/androgenic steroids, are synthetic and naturally occurring substances related to male sex hormones including testosterone. Anabolic steroids were first discovered in the 1930s. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Anabolic Steroids]

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