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The Steroid Scandal Hits Home

 

The Champaign chemist who owns Proviant Technologies (left) faces charges in what's known as the BALCO investigation. The case has brought the fight against professional athletes taking performance enhancing drugs to central Illinois. A local physician specializing in sports medicine says it will take the continued pursuit of suspects -- and more severe criminal penalties -- before steroids become less of a problem. AM 580's Jeff Bossert reports on the ongoing battle against steroids from a medical perspective.

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