Friday, May 03, 2013
Steroids study from HOF
Neyer reacts to a study (commissioned by the Hall of Fame) on problem areas in an adolescent's life. And as expected, parents are most worried about alcohol usage and least worried about steroid usage. And, one worry they have more than steroid usage is eating disorder. The Hall of Fame's conclusion suggests that this is a perception issue, and parents need to be made aware that steroids is a bigger problem than eating disorders.?
Neyer goes after the HOF's shoddy conclusions. I agree with Rob.
Steroids is a niche problem, while alcohol is prevalent throughout. Steroids is I presume expensive and not-easy to obtain, at least compared to alcohol, which is often free (if you can sneak one past dad) or low cost, and easy to obtain (again, a surrogate will do, unwittingly or not).
Weirdly, tobacco use was not mentioned in the report. I'd more worry that a kid is going to emulate tobacco usage than steroid usage, especially since most kids are not athletes, and therefore, would not be part of the steroid-tempted crowd.
If the survey was limited to parents of kids who are on a college football team, sure, the numbers would look quite different.
And a parent thinks about their kids' eating habits every single day from the day they are born to the day they die. That's what parents do. I'm just shocked it's not even higher.
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