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 Teenagers, looking up to those elite athletes whose muscles ripple with steroid-enhanced power, are picking up some dangerous training tips, health experts warn. Several national youth surveys estimate steroid use by high school boys at 4-6%, up to 12% in one study, and about 2% for girls. And the numbers are rising. “I’d say 500,000 to 600,000 kids in the U.S. have used these drugs at some time,” says researcher Charles Yesalis, professor of exercise and sport science at Penn State. “Right now steroid use is at an all-time high.”

Check out the pictures of a 15 year old named Tammy.

Those are the biggest guns I have ever scene on an asian 15 year old.  I heard she is trying to qualify for the olympic water polo team in 08.

Here Tammy is westling a 23 year old math student at SJSU.  Look at all that rage!!!!!  If you had to ask, she won.

Yesalis, author of Performance Enhancing Substances in Sport and Exercise, cites a study published in 2000 that found prevalent use among eighth-graders similar to that of high school seniors. “We’ve shown use down to seventh-grade level,” he says. “It’s scary for anybody to use these drugs, but in particular women and children.” A 1999 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance study by the Centers for Disease Control and the 2001 Monitoring the Future survey both show steady growth in steroid use by eighth- to 12th-graders.

It is not only young athletes who use them, says Yesalis. Because steroids can help turn a 100-pound weakling into a buff beach stud, they “make a young person feel more popular, more sexually attractive,” he says. But there is a price to pay. Anabolic steroids are synthetic drugs related to male hormones. They’re used medically to help AIDS patients improve strength and appetite and to treat men for delayed puberty, impotence and hypogonadism, a condition in which the testes are underactive.

For young athletes, steroids increase muscle mass and strength and shorten the time for muscles to recover from a workout. They also have the psychological effect of boosting assertiveness, giving a “pumped-up mental attitude,” DiNubile says.