Summary of “High and Inside” by Mark Starr

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another steroids user. Marion Jones, one of the well-known athletes accused of subsisting to steroids, does not escape Starr's discussion, for Jones is one of the professional athletes who served as the catalyst for professional sports organization to look into the effectiveness of their drug testing programs for professional athletes and players.
Of course, Starr also includes other "players" in the game of steroid use in the country's professional sports organizations. BALCO, Giambi's supplier of steroids, finds itself accused of harboring the illegal habit of enhancing the athletes and players' performance by supplying them with steroids. Personal trainers of athletes and players are also pinpointed as one of the primary influences why players learn to use illegal drugs, as Giambi's experience shows, it is the personal trainer (to Barry Bonds) Greg Anderson who introduced him to steroids. While Giambi acknowledges that he had used synthetic testosterone and HGH, Bonds ...

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