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Can drugs effect male fertility even after having been clean for 20 years?

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Dr. Philip Chenette answered

Specializes in Fertility Medicine

Probably not: Drugs have short-term effects on male fertility through suppression of sperm production. Long-term effects would reflect injury to the testes, the sperm producing organs, and such injury is rare. I would search elsewhere for a source of the problem.

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Answered 8/29/2012

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