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Article: What athletic directors can do about the steroid abuse crisis.(A.D.MINISTRATION)
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- Coach and Athletic Director
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- April 1, 2006
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As more professional and Olympic athletes reveal their usage of anabolic steroids, the trickle-down effect to our young people continues to worsen.
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We are clearly in the midst of an anabolic steroid epidemic that has permeated just about every sport at every level of play. Reports from the Mayo Clinic and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reveal that upward of one million middle and high school-aged kids experimented with steroids in 2003.
Other scientific reports indicate that anabolic steroid use is steadily creeping upward among both athletes and non-athletes. Usage by females has doubled since the '90s and ...