FSM Blogger

Ok, I just read a Washington Post article by Josh Barr High Schoolers' Supplement Use Is A Growing Concern Athletes' Quest for Extra Edge Leads to Wide Use of Products about enhancement drugs used by High School atheletes. Check this stat out[quoted from the article]

"A 2003 study released by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association found that as many as 1.1 million youths ages 12 to 17 have taken sports supplements, a 10 percent increase from a similar study performed two years earlier."

That is a bit distrubing don't you think. It seems that the pressure to perform has taken on a new face. Does this bother anyone else or is it just me. Why do there have to be performance enhancing drugs? Why do we need to market them so heavily to teens? Why do people just take them at will without knowing what the future repercussions are going to be? If there have been links established between steroid use and suicide...what is going on? Someone explain it to me.