July 2013

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BETA BLOCKERS: stage fright cure or unfair advantage?

A hot topic in the sports world is the use of performance enhancing drugs. From Lance Armstrong most recently, to any number of Olympic athletes and professional baseball players, there is a lot of controversy surrounding this issue. Why? Quite simply, steroids give athletes an unfair advantage. Athletes have been fired and their titles stripped because of the use of steroids. Classical musicians are under the same, if not more, pressure than athletes to succeed and play flawlessly.

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