High School Kids using Anabolic Steroids – caught juicing in school bathrooms!

Reports that 6% of teenage girls are using steroids have lots of people in a frenzy. If there are that many school girls juicing then just how many high school guys are using roids! And you won’t believe the crazy measures that the government is taking to combat the situation.

I can still remember back to my freshman year of high school when our teacher had everyone in the class take an anonymous survey. The survey dealt with drug usage among 9th grade students and asked us to give honest answers to if there were any illegal drugs we were using at the time and how frequently we were doing it. I can also remember that back in the day, my answers weren’t exactly the most honest ones either.

Being the class clown, and knowing the survey was anonymous, I proceeded to write down that I took just about every single illegal drug in the book despite that fact that I wasn’t taking any at all. The bad part was that the rest of the people in my class were clowns too and had the same idea about writing down that they were taking tons of drugs when they weren’t.

When the surveys were completed, our teacher was in disbelief. A whopping 65% of the students in our class said that they were using at least one illegal drug and 40% said that they were taking more than one. Luckily I, unlike my teacher, knew my classmates pretty well and also knew that barely anyone in the class actually took any drugs at all.

Now government officials and lawmakers want to use the same kind of anonymous surveys as reason for why they should be wasting taxpayers’ money on extensive steroid programs for high school students. Especially in the state of Florida which recently became another state that will test its high-school athletes for steroids.

Starting next year, random steroid testing will be given to one percent of students who compete in football, baseball, or weightlifting. The Florida High School Athletics Association is going to be administering the testing and it will include all of the state’s 426 public schools as well as the 224 private member schools.

Under this plan, any athlete who is selected to be tested and refuses to give a urine sample would be ineligible to be on their high school team. Any athlete who tested positive for steroids would be suspended from their team but could get back on if they passed a second test later on.

To pay for this testing, Florida lawmakers saw it fit to approve $100,000 of its residents’ money towards the plan. And while people like Florida State Rep. Marcelo Llorente, who’s pushed for the testing for four years, are elated about the passing of this bill and the amount of money going towards it, others aren’t so happy.

Namely the coaches and parents of the athletes who think that such a bill will no doubt infringe upon the privacy of students. They also think that steroid usage among high school students is so low that it would be ridiculous to dump $100,000 into such a program.

However, proponents of this bill have fired back by saying that a survey of Florida high school students revealed that 4% of them were using some kind of steroid to enhance their athletic performance. But some people are really starting to question the legitimacy of these surveys as they believe that there is no way 1 out of every 25 students in every high school is juicing.

Similar surveys are starting to pop up in other states as well such as Oregon, which is another hotbed of high school testing. Dr. Linn Goldberg of the Oregon Health & Science University, in conjunction with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), conducted a study that sought to shock people by revealing the number of teenage girls that were on roids. And shock people it did!

The CDC’s survey asked 7,544 teenage girls in grades 7 through 12 to answer questions about if they had ever used illegal drugs, especially steroids. After all of the results were tallied, the report stated that almost 6% of teenage girls were using steroids. What was especially amazing was that over 7% of the 7th grade girls said that they were on steroids!

Dr. Goldberg showed through his study that most girls who were using steroids were also drinking, smoking and using marijuana and cocaine. After reviewing the results of his study, Goldberg believed steroids should be included in prevention programs as he said, “In prevention programs for girls, you would want to deal with diet pills, marijuana and cocaine and not think of steroids in isolation.”

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But one has to seriously wonder if a prevention program is necessary or if Goldberg’s study is a bunch of BS. Really, how many people mix alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and steroids? Especially in 7th grade!

Dr. Harrison Pope, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, seems to share this skepticism as he said, “The publicity about steroid use was due to a mistake about the way these national surveys were constructed. The CDC\'s estimates of steroid use among teenage girls are almost certainly grossly inflated.”

Pope went on to give a much more realistic estimate about what he believes the true number of girls using steroids really is, “The data suggests that true use of anabolic steroids among teenage girls is probably closer to 0.1 percent.” He also believes that the survey used was wrong because the questions were far too open-ended.

If what Pope says is true in that only 1 out every 1000 students are using steroids, then why test at all? Data from New Jersey, which became the first state in America to test high school athletes for steroids, seems to back Pope’s estimate up as all of the 150 students they tested came up clean. And New Jersey poured $50,000 into a program that’s end result was to find out 150 kids were NOT juicing.

But lawmakers and other people don’t seem to want to listen to this type of logic. They’d rather follow all of the crazy surveys that claim 1 out of every 14 middle school girls are using steroids and never stopping to think if these girls are really taking the surveys seriously.

They don’t think about how in the world all of these teenage girls would consistently get their hands on the money to buy steroids. So we are forced to willingly give up our tax money to states that, one after another, ponder spending it on implementing steroid testing in high schools. Let’s hope that some states will wise up and realize this is wasted money that could go to better and more important things.

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