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Teen Steroid Use on High School Teams

Teen steroid abuse is a dangerous trend that high school coaches may be able to offer solutions for. Known as "roids," "juice," "hype," or "pump," anabolic steroids are man-made substances that act like the male sex hormone testosterone ("Teens and Steroids"). Although steroids are only available legally by a doctor's prescription to treat certain conditions, they are available on the black market and are taken by some teens to "enhance performance and also to improve physical appearance" ("Teens and Steroids"). Teens that take steroids may exhibit a variety of signs and symptoms, such as rapid weight and muscle gain, "aggressiveness and combativeness," jaundice, purple spots, swollen feet and legs, trembling, skin darkening, bad breath, and severe acne ("Teens and Steroids"). More than 70 side effects can occur due to steroid use, including liver cancer, psychological effects such as "roid rage," and depression ("Teens and Steroids"). Males can have "reduced sperm production, shrinking of the testicles, impotence, difficulty or pain in urinating, baldness, and irreversible breast enlargement" ("Teens and Steroids"). Girls can develop masculine characteristics such as lower body fat and breast size, a deeper voice, excess body hair, loss of scalp hair, and clitoral enlargement ("Teens and Steroids"). Teens of both sexes can stop growing and remain shorter for the rest of their lives than they would have been if they had not taken steroids ("Teens and Steroids"). A high level of steroids "fool the body into thinking it has already fully matured-and growth is shut down. The lost height can never be recovered" ("Education Reduces Teen Steroid Use"). One 5'10" high school football coach had a 5'6" daughter, but his son was only 5'4" tall ("Education Reduces Teen Steroid Use"). The son was winning power-lifting championships, and "His father was blind to the fact that his kid was abusing steroids...It wasn't until his son l...

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