YOUNG GIRLS ON STEROIDS!!!!

American girls using steorids? Experts say that some girls as young as nine, are using bodybuilding steroids but not to get an edge on the playing field, but to get the toned, sculpted look of models and movie stars. These girls are getting their hands on the same dangerous testosterone pills, shots and creams that other professional athletes get a hold of. According to research these grils who are taking steorids often are girls who have eating disorders.

According to researchers, most girls are using steroids to get stronger on the field. But plenty of other girls are using steroids to give themselves a slightly muscular look, they say."With young women, you see them using it more as a weight control and body fat reduction" method, said Jeff Hoerger, who runs the staff counselling programme at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

You never really hear of girls or student female athletes taking steorids and it is a big shock to hear about young girls, age 9, taking steorids to make themselves look attractive. Females do face a lot when it comes to the topic of fitness and being the "it" or "happening" girl which is why they take these drugs. They maybe pressured into or they simple have a complex about their body and feel the only way to fix it is by taking steorids.

http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1114491246227R131

High School 'Roid Lessons

A NIDA-funded drug abuse prevention program is showing high school football players that they do not need to take steroids to be muscular or to be a great athlete. Educating student athletes about the harmful effects of anabolic steroids and providing nutrition and weight-training alternatives to steroid use has reduced their intentions to use steroids and increased football players' healthy behaviors . Teaching student athletes about the effect of steorids hasn't been focused on much until this program.

I think this program is very sucessful and it should be taught in every signgle High School to student athletes, both boys and girls. This program should be a mandotory class every day or once a week even. Since some of their "role models" aren't setting good examples for them then they should be guided through the right path by someone else.

High School athletes have to face peer pressure and have to hear it from teamates about not being a good player or about being weak and sometimes some of them feel like they HAVE to take steroids to improve there game. A program like this can prevent that from occuring and that's why it should be in every school.

http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol12N4/steroid.html

Bonds, Giambi, Sheffield !!!

Federal investigators were told that Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield and three other major-league baseball players received steroids from a Burlingame nutritional supplement lab. According to info from the government and The Chronicle the major league players received the illegal performance-enhancing drugs from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative through Greg Anderson, who is Bonds' personal weight trainer and longtime friend.

Anderson allegedly obtained a so-called designer steroid known as "the clear" and a testosterone-based steroid known as "the cream" and supplied the substances to all six baseball players. Bonds was said to have received human growth hormone, a powerful substance that legally cannot be distributed without a prescription.

What type of examples are these baseball players setting for the kids who look up to them? They are promoting it is okay to cheat in the sports world just to become the best. What happened to playing to the best of your ability and earning and working hard for what you want? These major league players need to get their act together because it definitely isn't a good name for MLB. This is the first or second or third or so forth incident of steroids in MLB, they need to tighten up on the players because they are setting bad examples.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/02/MNGNM5C3AV1.DTL

Careless Signature

A New York City doctor named Victor Mariani pleaded guilty to illegally writing prescriptions for human growth hormone and anabolic steroids on behalf of patients he never met. Mariani could face a maximum of five years in jail and will be fined $250,000 for each count.

Federal prosecutors state Mariani recruited to write fraudulent prescriptions for American Pharmaceutical Group, which advertised anabolic steroids and human growth hormone in magazines and Web sites targeted at bodybuilders.

It is too easy for doctors to write fake prescriptions for clients they haven't met. It is also too easy for people to find websites that promote the distribution of steroid and other performance enhancer products. Although they are starting to crack down a little more now there have been previous cases in the past with other Professional players and now is when its being addressed, it's a little too late.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03102007/sports/n_y__doc_guilty_of_roid_rap_sports_.htm

Crackin' Down!

Getting a hold of steroids and other performance enhancers is becoming to easy through the Internet. David Soares, Albany County District Attorney, is teaming up with Senator Chuck Schumer to "target pharmacies that sell drugs using phony presripitons from unscrupulous doctors." It is not only easy for professional athletes to buy human growth hormone products through the Internet but its too easy for high school students to purchase them.

Schumer stated that he is going to put forth a legislation to make " the popular human growth hormone (HGH) a controlled substance that's subject to federal regulation and slap doctors who sell prescriptions for HGH and steroids with federal fraud charges." Hopefully this will make it harder for people to purchase this illegal product.

Schumer stated that he is more concerned with the "kids" specifically the high school athlete who wants to "bulk up for wrestling or to get faster for a track meat." Its good that they are focusing more on the young student athletes than on the professionals because in my eyes the professional players know better and they set examples for student athletes. High School athletes believe it or not follow after their favorite player or even by a player that is suddenly improving.

Since it is a competitive world in High School, especially for the boys, they want to do anything in their power to become the best. That includes enhancement performance products that are illegal, they just want to be the best and they don;t care about the consequences. It good that both Schumer and Soares are teaming up to crack down on this topic and its more for the student athletes.

http://www.nydailynews.com/03-05-2007/news/story/502672p-423988c.html