Two high school students test positive for steroids. Even steroid users don’t see anything wrong with that. You will see on my forums, veteran steroid users discourage young athletes from taking steroids, even ones in their late teens and early 20s. But I’ll tell you what the steroid users, and probably people all over North America have a problem with… they have a problem with the cost.
The University Interscholastic League, spent $2,000,000, yes two million dollars, to catch these two students. Two students out of 3,133 students tested positive for anabolic steroids. You do the math. What recession?
I wonder how many new computers $2,000,000 could buy? Or the amount of sports equipment, or school upgrades. It must be nice to be able to carelessly throw money around… I guess it’s not hard when it’s not yours.
So what does this tell us?
This tells us steroid use in high schools is not as big as everyone thought.
It tells us we should be worried about our children going to schools where the decision makers foolishly throw money away.
I guess people should be happy the program’s funding was cut down to $2M, from the initial plan in 2007 of $6M, where only 19 students tested positive for anabolic steroids… out of 45,193 students.
The great thing about the steroid tests, is their sole purpose is to test for steroid use. Forget cocaine, meth, or any other drug that is ruining lives… futures, they singled out anabolic steroids. I admit, I’m not too familiar with the UIL drug programs, but I’m willing to bet they don’t have any random drug tests for any of the actual dangerous drugs.
Show me one person who had their life ruined from steroids, and I will show you communities of people, that were ruined by more severe drugs.
I think President Obama said it best,
“We’ve got, you know, nuclear weapons and a financial meltdown to worry about. We shouldn’t be worry as much about steroids as sometimes we do.”
Maybe one day they’ll actually make a change, and maybe one day they’ll realize, that maybe, that one guy in a million who used steroids and died of liver complications(at the age of 78), died because he had liver complications, and not because he used steroids.
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