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banned drugs by athletes no surprise  Super Bowl fans will watch
plenty of commercials today, and those ads will be more fun than
the ones I usually see. That's because I watch too much TV news.
The demographics of that viewing audience apparently jibe with
users of certain prescription drugs. So I see a lot of ads for
problems -- they're not ailments, exactly. Judging by the
frequency of these ads, "low T" is a common condition.
Testosterone products promise to fix symptoms that include low
libido, lack of energy and decreased strength, all things that
come with aging. News viewers must also be a depressed lot.
There's an ad for a drug called Abilify that's taken with an
antidepressant. The drug's selling point is that it keeps at bay
a cartoon shadow that follows you around -- your persistent case
of the blues. Sleep also appears to elude us. A new drug,
Intermezzo, is made to cure the ins