On March 21, 2007 an editorial was published in the Fort Worth Star Telegram titled "Big Problem On Campus". In this article the author opposes a proposition of policy regarding Senate Bill 8 and Lt. Governor David Dewhurst's push for mandatory random steroid testing throughout Texas high schools. This proposition of policy aims to expose the evidence of why mandatory random steroid testing may not actually be as needed as the Senate Bill claims it to be.
The author of this editorial does a very poor job of defining the key terms of the argument. He never actually defines "steroid" or tells exactly what substances the athletes would or wouldn't be tested for. Would the athletes be tested only for anabolic steroids or would they be tested for other products and supplements that can produce the same effects as steroids? Certified fitness trainer and national best selling author of 8 books on bodybuilding, Hugo Rivera, defines anabolic steroids as synthetic (man-made) hormones......
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