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Growing and changing: The ups and downs of steroids. (Personal care).(Brief Article)
Kids picked on Jamie Fuller when he was young and skinny. Then, in the eighth grade, Jamie began taking anabolic steroids, drugs that increase muscle size and strength. The drugs turned Jamie's weak, skinny body into a body rippled with bulging muscles.
Anabolic steroids-referred to on the streets as "juice"- interfere with the body's normal pattern of growth and development. Jamie took juice to speed his body's growth and improve its development. And it worked-for a while.
Then things changed. "I was real depressed. I hit people. I punched holes in walls when I was mad," explains Jamie.
Jamie says the steroids caused uncontrollable outbursts of rage. In one of those outbursts, Jamie stabbed his girlfriend to death. Jamie is now in prison for life.
"I didn't think steroids would ruin my life," says Jamie, "but here I am, sitting in jail, facing a life sentence."
Growing and Changing
If you're like most kids, your body has begun, or soon will begin, a growth spurt. During that growth spurt, you may outgrow your shoes or clothing two or three times in a year.
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