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Article: 'Roid rage: districts' latest drug problem doesn't involve getting high, but getting stronger. Learn how steroids are infiltrating high schools and what districts are doing to stem the abuse.(Cover Story)
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- District Administration
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- July 1, 2005
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Thanks to Major League Baseball, anabolic steroid use and abuse is once again in the news. In his State of the Union address this January, President Bush called for legislation against steroid abuse in professional sports (federal laws against steroid use have been in place since 1990). In April, a bill called the Drug Free Sports Act that would regulate steroid use in professional sports began wending its way through Congress. And in May, California passed a law that requires teen athletes and their parents to sign an anti-steroid pledge. The leap from tightening steroid controls on the pros to tightening steroid controls on the young shouldn't surprise anyone in the ...