High School Steriod Wake Up Call

Smokey500+ posts

I was just lookin' for high school scores and came accoss this article. Sobering.

"A recent study conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse revealed that 3.5 percent of high school seniors nationwide admitted to using steroids at least once in 2005."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/prep/cst-spt-prep23.html

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. ~ General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

4/23/068:30 AM

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play baseball1,000+ posts

Shortly after the steroid related death of Taylor Hooten, but before all Senate committee hearings on the topic, I taught the 8th grade students at a junior high school about the dangers of steroid use. There were lots of questions from the boys, but I'll never forget one of the them. It still haunts me.

A very pleasant, athletic-looking kid looked up at me from his seat in the front and quietly asked, "Well, then, how DO you get big?"

4/23/069:00 AM

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