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“Diet Drug Factor in Bechler Death” Today’s Major League Baseball athletes are not restricted from the use of any performance enhancing drug on the market. That statement might no longer be true in the future. Doctors have recently reported that they have positively identified traces of the herb ephedra in the body of Baltimore Oriole’s pitcher Steve Bechler. Bechler collapsed of a heatstroke and died shortly thereafter, while attending a routine spring training practice with his fellow teammates. His temperature at the time of his collapse was 108, and that was contributed to by the Florida heat, and amounts of ephedra, pseudoephedrine, and caffeine he was taking at the time. The analysis read that the amounts of these contributors in Bechler’s blood was strikingly consistent with the amount inside three tablets of the weight-loss supplement Xenadrine. Teammates said that Bechler was taking these weight-loss pill