College and professional sports players have been subject to steroid and drug testing for quite some time, and many athlete's results have scorned their image or taken away opportunities and awards. The state of Texas is preparing to enforce a new law requiring mandatory random steroid testing in high school athletes. "Mandatory random" seems like a type of oxymoron, but regardless all high schools will now be forced by law to administer steroid tests to their athletes in some fashion. The steroid tests have some kinks still: they turn up positive for some nutritional supplements that are over the counter and perfectly legal. Associate commissioner of the Texas Education Agency says that athletes should just not take any supplements at all. I think it's ridiculous to say that legal nutritional supplements should be avoided. Unless the steroid test can evaluate a legal substance from an illegal steroid (or a steroid that is out of policy), then this random test should not be issued in my opinion. There is a hold on the steroid testing until this issue is solved, but either way I disagree with the condemning of legal nutritional supplements.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/legislature/stories/071607dnspohssteroids.f584ac.html
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Good solid effort.
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