Anabolic steroids come with health risks for all individuals, but especially adolescents. Anabolic steroids can halt growth prematurely by closing the growth centers in the bones and once these growth plates are closed they cannot reopen. There are many young individuals, in their early teen years, that make the Olympic Teams especially for a sport such as gymnastics, making steroids use on adolescents an issue for discussion. At such a young age, these professional athletes are very impressionable and teaching them the dangers of doping will hopefully prevent them from using in the future.
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