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Several years ago, my organization conducted a survey of young athletes and found that a jaw-dropping 3 percent admitted they were using steroids. These are children 12 years old and younger. It’s one of the scariest numbers I’ve seen. And it’s a problem that’s not going away anytime soon.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) recently came out with a study--“What Sport Means in America: A Study of Sport’s Role in Society”--and some of the numbers certainly have my attention. And they should have yours, too.
Bigger, Faster, Stronger
The study found that Americans rank the use of performance-enhancing drugs as the most serious problem facing sport today. It’s easy to see why.
