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Article: Effort to curb steroid abuse just beginning // Ignorance, vanity main culprits Series: THE STEROID MENACE (STANDARD)
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 1, 1989
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The father of a high school wrestler swung his car into one of
the diagonal parking spaces in front of Tom's Gym in west suburban
Addison and waited in the car as his son went inside to try to buy
anabolic steroids.
"The kid came in and asked for steroids so he could have a good
wrestling season this year so he could get a scholarship for
college," said Tom Meredith, owner of the gym and an opponent of
steroid use.
"I thought it was kind of weird that his father brought him here
and then waited in the car," Meredith recalled. "I asked him if his
father knew why he was here and he said, `Yeah, but he thinks they're
like vitamins. He doesn't think there's anything wrong with
steroids.' "