Steroids in high-school have become an increasingly hot topic in both the media as well as at various levels of the government. In 1988, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined Anabolic Steroid use patterns among the male students. In this study, overall participation rate on a school-wide basis was 68.7% and on an individual basis was approximately half (just over 50%). According to the survey, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, steroid use among high school students more than doubled between 1991 and 2003. Slightly over 6% of 15,000 students surveyed admitted trying steroid pills or injections. This is telling us how much it is really being tried be the average high-school male. They Look up to the main source of all sports and where they learned the game as a kid, by watching the guys on television and see what they do to be so good.
((Sports Illustrated, June 2002, as told by Ken Caminiti)
This has many purposes to my topic because about 95% of all teenage boys that test with steroids in high-school are playing some sort of sport. I think the main reason they feel that they have to use these drugs is because they watch the professionals and think they can’t do as well as they do unless they get some help. I don’t think that students are getting much education about the affects of steroids and what it will do to you in the long run.