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.
