Recent cover of NEWSWEEK - KIDS AND STEROIDS...bullshit hype!

[MikeS]

More alarmist media reporting, ignoring the facts!

See these stats complied by Rick Collins:

High School Steroid Use is Decreasing
Despite claims of a "burgeoning epidemic," the truth is that teen steroid use has been declining. According to the published data of the widely accepted Monitoring the Future studies, the percentage of 8th graders who reported using steroids at least once in their lives went from 2.5% in 2002 down to 1.9% in 2004. Among 10th graders, the figure went from 3.5% in 2002 down to 3.0% in 2003 and then down again to 2.4% in 2004. Among 12th graders, the decrease was from 4.0% in 2002 to 3.5% in 2003 to 3.4% in 2004. Obviously, any non-medical steroid use by adolescents is unacceptable. However, it's wrong for self-serving professional alarmists and sensationalistic journalists to create unfounded hysteria. -- Rick Collins, www.teamlegalmuscle.com

 

[IRON37]

Ive always wondered where they get these "statistics" from...if its from those little drug surveys they used to give us in highschool then theyre fuckin morons for thinking kids actually take those things seriously. I was always a 7 year old native american with 4 children & did every known drug to man on a 2 hour basis. So yeah, unless they have other means of getting their info theyre way off of how many actually do use. It just depends on where you are...and is nothing near an"epidimic" like they say. Damn media always trying to stir up shit. Im done

 

[jerrywear]

Mike S it was a good post.the funyest part was when i was reading legal muscle,that steroids are the biges and bedest drug ever.i dont know anybody who is killing somebody for one botle of test,or goes it to the somebodys home and kils sombody just to get a botle or two of deca.its just sounds like that.and kits 8 graders takeing steroids,thats just stupid.how the f... they test them.or they just ask them?you know its getting really fu..ed up lately about that steroid thing.
how many time in the gym i have people come to me and telling me (if i would take what you takeing i would be bigger then you)what the fuck,go and try it.they think that our sport is based on steroid.its like to lift weights or eat you just dont need.all those talks and missleads about our sport just makeing everything worst.
but from other hand they do love competitions,big guys, nice bodys.i just dont understand that.
but what ever it is,i would say let it be.we cant change other people thinking.why we need to fight it?dont you think guys?