| What happens when high school kids tend
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| | plans to stop using steroids. It has also
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| to go the Arnold way...
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| | been reported that many adolescent users
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| The anabolic-androgenic steroids have
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| | are either unaware or unconvinced of
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| been used since the early 1950s for
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| | negative effects of steroids, physical
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| medicinal purposes and to enhance
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| | and psychological effects.
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| athletic performance. The incidence of
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| | The growing evidence of habituation among
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| non-medicinal use has been found to be
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| | adolescent steroid users, and the
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| increased considerably in recent years.
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| | powerfully reinforcing properties of the
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| This is followed by a strikingly
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| | drugs, presents a very disturbing trend
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| increased frequency of their use among
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| | in our young society. Such alarming
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| adolescents & high school student
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| | teenage steroid use forces us to stop and
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| groups in particular.
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| | think about our own kids. Why do so many
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| A 2001 CDC survey indicated that 5% of
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| | young people continue to use them? There
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| all high school students reported
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| | can be many answers:
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| lifetime use of steroid without a
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| | - One answer is social pressures. Many
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| doctor's prescription. The survey also
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| | young men, for various reasons, start
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| indicated that 5.8% of ninth graders,
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| | feeling that they need to look
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| 4.9% of tenth graders, 4.3% of eleventh
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| | "masculine," that is, strong and muscular
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| graders, and 4.3% of twelfth graders
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| | and they fall easily for these so called
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| reported lifetime illegal use of
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| | "body-toners".
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| steroids. It has been estimated that at
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| | - There is more pressure to win and
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| least 700,000 high school students use
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| | perform in sports today than ever before
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| anabolic steroids and that at least two
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| | in history. Some student athletes feel so
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| third of them begin use by 16 years of
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| | pressured to succeed in their respective
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| age.
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| | sports that they resort to steroids for
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| Many users also engage in a practice
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| | help.
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| known as "stacking"; that is, using
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| | - Easy accessibility is also a major
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| several steroids at once. There have been
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| | reason for the use of steroids and other
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| reports of addictive behavior and
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| | performance-enhancing drugs among youth
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| habituation among both adult and
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| | today. Just a click over Google will
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| adolescent steroid users, as well as
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| | display thousands of vendors selling
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| reports of affective and psychotic
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| | "booster" doses and thus procuring such
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| symptoms, often characterized by
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| | steroids is never a major hassle!
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| impulsive, aggressive and violent
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| | Need for Steroid Testing:
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| behavior.
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| | In such a situation, the need for steroid
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| Adolescent steroid users appear to be at
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| | testing at various levels arise manifolds
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| special risk for many of the adverse
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| | for many reasons. You wouldn't want
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| psychological and physical consequences
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| | yourself or your kids to fall prey to
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| of steroid use and most of them strongly
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| | enormous side effects of such potentially
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| believe that steroids produce the
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| | devastating drugs.
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| physical effects they desire, and have no
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