"Legal Steroid" Prevalent In High Schools

(CBS)  With baseball season just around the corner and A-Rod's admission of steroid use dominating headlines, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella had an Early Show investigation into steroid use in high school.

"If you are a parent or relative of a teenager, you'll want to listen to what we found out in this report. In spite of congressional hearings, testing and education, scientists are staying one step ahead of the law -- and the kids are right there with them," Cobiella told The Early Show Saturday Edition co-anchor Chris Wragge.

Cobiella visited the sleepy Southern town of Appaloosa, La., where you'd least expect to find a steroid bust the size and scope of one that made local headlines last summer.

As the investigation unfolded, Cobiella found that more people are not just involved in illegal steroid use, but also "legal steroid" use, with a supplement called Tren.

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[Trenboy87]

The goverment had millons of dollars to spend just on steroid education. Where did those money go ? And Doctor Gary Walder still says, the treath is dying, the treath is suicide, and steroids can even be "assosicated" with cancer.
The respones
"Jiees I havent seen that many people die....."

[chuckt123456]

they dont even spell the city name right, not even close. As far as prohormones or supplements like them they are no where close to legit anabolic steroids. This xtreme tren has absolutely no trenebolone in it and the old doctor saying he found 19nor chain in it is a fkn idiot and has no clue or cbs just made it up.

[getaliferightnow]

Worried about the economy? Wondering if your going to keep your job? Just lost your house? Wondering when the Iraq war will end? Not to worry we found the real problem to be focused on "Steroids!" They are a danger to us all. Forget Cocaine, Heroine, LSD, and all that other stuff... this is the real issue to go after. God forbid that make a drug that makes people want to actually go to the gym and work out. Oh my! That 14 year old just went from hitting 30 pounders to 50 pounds... there's a real threat of terrorism forget Binladen or where my 401k went!

[mayo1958]

Wow I'm from Opelousas , Louisiana and I'm shocked that they when to Eunice High School. We have Opelousas Senior High in the city of Opelousas. And there are kids there who have taken drugs to buff them up. Parents need to focus on there kids and watch what they are doing. Yes we do live in a small country town but drugs and dealer are like ants they multiply. When a person sells drugs to kids they need to be jailed for LIFE.

[Strikerrjones]

This is bad reporting at its worst. The reporter obviously did a cursory amount of research in order to make the story sound valid and then tried to blow it up into something real. Ridiculous.


Oh, and to the person that said you don't let your kid take creatine: Creatine is not a steroid. If your kid eats red meat, he probably gets as much creatine in his diet as he would from supplementing it. It's a natural substance found in foods.

[getaliferightnow]

Oh my god my kid is eating healthy in hopes of being a better athlete and seeing a sports trainer and i ask what he's doing, where's he's going and who's he doing it with. it's so hard

[getaliferightnow]

Oh my god my kid is eating healthy in hopes of being a better athlete and seeing a sports trainer and i ask what he's doing, where's he's going and who's he doing it with. it's so hard

[1caleb56]

This is crazy, They want to make everything that is dangerous for teenagers illegal, when more education is whats really needed. Our government has plenty of more serious issues at hand than to babysit peoples kids.

and cbs is a joke, seriously vitamin b12 in your pic? I guess you thought if it had the medical name ppl wouldnt check what it was?

[getaliferightnow]

DOSE CBS EVER STOP AND THINK ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO USE THIS PRODUCT AND ARE RESPONSIBLE WITH IT, THAT ARE TAX PAYING ADULTS?

HOW CBS OR THE PARENTS DON'T STOP AND MAKE THE KID'S TAKE DRUG TESTS IN HOPES OF FINDING REAL DRUGS, THAT COULD KILL THE KIDS?

IT'S DISGUSTING TO SEE CBS SPEND ALL THAT TIME AND MONEY ALONG WITH ASKING BAITING QUESTIONS TO STORE OWNERS TO SET THEM UP IN TRYING TO DRUM UP SOME PUBLIC OUT CRY OVER SOME LITTLE BRAT THAT WILL NEVER PLAY A VARSITY SPORT ON ANY LEVEL, BECAUSE HE IS GENETICALLY INFERIOR.


MOST KIDS AT THAT AGE WON'T TAKE THE TIME TO WORK WITH THE PROPER HELP YEAR ROUND "IE SPORTS TRAINER OR NUTRITIONIST" BECAUSE THEY WANT TO PROCRASTINATE AND PUT OFF THE HARD WORK AND GO TOSS OFF WITH THEIR BOYZ!

[rebiej1971]

While i do realize that some parents do push there children, I have witnessed the pressure put on our children by their coaches for them to bulk up. My son was playing football for the school last year which was his 8th grade year. My son was at the time 13 years old almost 14. The whole football team was told by one of the coaches that they needed to start taking creatine to help build their muscles. Fortunately, I knew better than to do allow him to do that and explained it to him and he agreed he did not want to take it. At that age, they are too young to go to that extent and their bodies are not ready for it yet. My son also played on the freshman team this past year. While he is not a big boy, he is an awesome football player. He was approached by the varsity coach after his last freshman game. The coach gave him instructions to get to the weight room everyday because he needed him bulked up for next year. My son just turned 15, he is 5'11", and weighs 150 lbs. He wears a size 30x34 pants and a large shirt. During wrestling last month, he had a body fat count of 8%. He is already all muscle and bench pressing 185 lbs. He has worked hard to build what muscles he has and stays active in athletics. But with those kinds of pressures from the coaches, I can see how children would turn to other alternatives to build muscles. In my opinion, what they need is more involved, informed, and concerned parents. The responsibility falls on both parents and coaches.

[Trenboy87]

Coaches are often scumbags. The more they are concernd about progress and team wins the more pressure they will put on kids. And it dosent stop there. In adult sports and in the olympics its the same thing, but here the athlete its not pressured by parents or by coaches. Here its the crowd and the people cheering them on. Thats why everybody turns to steroids. They want to be the best and not let anyone down, always win. And the people want to see superhuman athletes doing superhuman things. Its simple to see how we as a society are feeding the steroid monster. But still I dont think steroids are bad and I dont think we can blame anyone who uses it or endorses it. Cause in the end everybody loves steroids they just dont know it until the day every athlete in the world would go off them. Cause then nobody would hit any homerun records, nobody would lift 800-900 pounds anymore. and all the old records would be so far away that going past old records would be impossible. We would then hate sport. U follow me?
Regards
/Johan