ne is laboratory produced. These drugs were first developed in Europe in the 1930's and were intended for hospital use only, to help patients recover quicker during surgery. They were used for this purpose because of the ability of the hormone to contribute to tissue formation and growth. Another medicinal use for steroids was to help young girls who were maturing at too slow of a rate, and the testosterone could speed this up. The second most popular type of steroid contains progesterone, a female hormone. Basically, every steroid is made up of hormonal compounds, but we're only discussing testosterone because it has the most available information.
             (PP)As with many other drugs which start out for medicinal use, steroids also came to the point when athletes began to realize what kind of power these "wonder-drugs" could give them, and by the mid 1950's they were widely abused. Steroid abuse was most common in the track and field or weightlifting competitions
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