Best Way to Deal With Teenage Steroid Issues?

The Director of the Michigan High School Athletic Association has come out in opposition to drug testing high school athletes. Jack Roberts cast real dispersion on the idea of testing high school athletes as a method for limiting steroid use in a piece he wrote for the Detroit News last winter.

Roberts stipulates that education is the better approach to stopping steroid use in high school. He insists that a more cost efficient and effective way of policing drug use by high school students is to utilize education programs such as ATLAS and ATHENA.

Roberts was thoroughly trashed by at least one web site for that view. But other researchers of the teenage steroid use issue stand firmly behind the educational option. Linn Golberg, a practicing physician and professor of medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, testified before a subcommittee in the House of Representatives as to the need for schools to adopt programs like ATLAS and ATHENA.