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Many Teen Girls Use Steroids
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 Yesalis thinks that part of the solution to steroid use in schools is drug testing. "These drugs are so unbelievably destructive that education alone is not going to do it," he said. "I am a strong proponent of drug-testing kids. If you are really going to make inroads, you have to drug test."
Dr. Todd Schlifstein, a sports medicine rehabilitation doctor at New York University, found the study "chilling."
"Girls are more sensitive to hormonal levels in anabolic steroids and risk irreversible side effects, including arrested growth, infertility and permanent secondary male characteristics," said Schliftein, who last year testified before Congress on the issue.
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He added, "Many are using steroids because they want to look better -- the steroids provide leaner body mass. This shows these girls know what to take and how to take it. We're not talking about professional athletes or celebrities. This is an under-publicized, frightening trickle-down effect."
More information
For more information on teens and steroids, visit the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Last updated 6/4/2007
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SOURCES: Linn Goldberg, M.D., professor of medicine, head, division of health promotion and sports medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland; Charles Yesalis, D.Sc., professor emeritus of health policy and administration and exercise and sport science, Penn State University, University Park; Harrison Pope, M.D., M.P.H., professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Todd Schlifstein, M.D., sports medicine rehabilitation physician, New York University Medical Center's Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine/Hospital for Joint Disease, and assistant professor, New York University School of Medicine, New York City; June 2007, Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
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