e to be on the track team."
This current vice-principal of a Southern California school was a student athlete in high school and often took drugs with his teammates because he felt pressure to do so. He said that he would have welcomed a mandatory drug-testing policy when he was a student.
I'm not trying to excuse myself - I knew that what I was doing was wrong and that I shouldn't buckle under to peer pressure. But I do think that it can be especially hard for an athlete, because you spend so much of your time being told that you're part of a team. And of course you are part of a team. And that just made it really hard for me to turn down my teammates even when it was something stupid like taking drugs. But if there had been the threat of drug-testing hanging over us, then I c
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