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More and more attempts to blame A/S for another childs death. "Rediculous"
Making It Big
Aug. 6, 2004
Rob Garibaldi of Petaluma, Calif., took steroids to bulk up. He later committed suicide. (Photo: CBS)
"I was like a time bomb waiting to explode. When I like started raging, I’d be scared -- I’d be scared of what was gonna happen."
Chris Wash
Chris Wash was a high school sophomore from West Plano, Texas, who was also taking anabolic steroids. (Photo: CBS)
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Taylor Hooton Foundation
The goal of this foundation is to raise awareness about the dangers of steroid abuse by adolescents and young adults.
(CBS) Three years ago, when Chris Wash was a high school sophomore from West Plano, Texas, he put on 55 pounds in just a year.
“It didn’t seem unrealistic for him to look the way he looked at what he weighed,” recalls Chris’ mother, Debbie Russo. “And it wasn’t all muscle … so it just didn’t seem to me like there were any red flags to be raised there, from that standpoint.”
But Russo says she was horrified by her son’s violent and erratic behavior: “He’d punch walls. He punched in a mailbox, punched a concrete wall in a parking lot. I had no clue, you know, what it was that was causing him to have that dramatic change in personality.”
What his mother didn’t know was that Chris had been taking anabolic steroids, growth hormones – forms of the male sex hormone, testosterone – which either come in pills or injections. Correspondent Troy Roberts reports.
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High levels of anabolic steroids cause the body to put on extra muscle. They’re sometimes used medically to treat victims of cancer or people with wasting illnesses, but there’s a long list of possible side effects.
Chris played on his high school basketball team. But he didn’t take steroids to play better; he wanted to look better.
“I was just 6 feet, 2 inches, 170-180 pounds, just kinda, like, scrawny kid,” says Chris. “I didn’t want to be tall and skinny. I wanted to be tall and big. Not big. I wanted to be huge.”
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Making It Big
Aug. 6, 2004
Rob Garibaldi of Petaluma, Calif., took steroids to bulk up. He later committed suicide. (Photo: CBS)
"I was like a time bomb waiting to explode. When I like started raging, I’d be scared -- I’d be scared of what was gonna happen."
Chris Wash
Chris Wash was a high school sophomore from West Plano, Texas, who was also taking anabolic steroids. (Photo: CBS)
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Taylor Hooton Foundation
The goal of this foundation is to raise awareness about the dangers of steroid abuse by adolescents and young adults.
(CBS) Three years ago, when Chris Wash was a high school sophomore from West Plano, Texas, he put on 55 pounds in just a year.
“It didn’t seem unrealistic for him to look the way he looked at what he weighed,” recalls Chris’ mother, Debbie Russo. “And it wasn’t all muscle … so it just didn’t seem to me like there were any red flags to be raised there, from that standpoint.”
But Russo says she was horrified by her son’s violent and erratic behavior: “He’d punch walls. He punched in a mailbox, punched a concrete wall in a parking lot. I had no clue, you know, what it was that was causing him to have that dramatic change in personality.”
What his mother didn’t know was that Chris had been taking anabolic steroids, growth hormones – forms of the male sex hormone, testosterone – which either come in pills or injections. Correspondent Troy Roberts reports.
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High levels of anabolic steroids cause the body to put on extra muscle. They’re sometimes used medically to treat victims of cancer or people with wasting illnesses, but there’s a long list of possible side effects.
Chris played on his high school basketball team. But he didn’t take steroids to play better; he wanted to look better.
“I was just 6 feet, 2 inches, 170-180 pounds, just kinda, like, scrawny kid,” says Chris. “I didn’t want to be tall and skinny. I wanted to be tall and big. Not big. I wanted to be huge.”
Click below for complete story!
**broken link removed**
