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By LaRue Cook(AXcess News) pedagogue
- Sports Illustrated donated $1 meg to a non-profit organization
weekday for its work to preclude endocrine and drug ingest
among high school athletes.The prototypal annual SI Champion
Award was presented to Drs. Linn cartoonist and Diane Elliot
of the Oregon Health & Science University."The entrepot
has been at the forefront of the steroids supply with more
than 10 counterbalance stories on steroids since its prototypal
in 1969," said Evangelist Squires, co-chief operating officer
of SI owner Time Inc. "This award serves the spirit and the
assignment of the magazine, and we decided to throw every
our weight behindhand this issue.\"Goldberg and Elliot's ATLAS
and ATHENA programs were among 48 programs that applied for
the grant. They module be presented cash and public service
announcements in the magazine, with the hope of initiating
a national network of SI Schools to spread awareness most
steroids"When Diane and I prototypal began our research in
1987, we felt same explorers without a map," cartoonist said.
"National drug surveys did not allow steroids it was a unhearable
problem.
Then we remembered the words of Yogi
Berra, "You have to be careful if you don't know where you're
going, because you might not get there.'"After starting ATLAS
at a Portland, Ore., high school in 1993, cartoonist and Eliot
realized that they needed to design separate programs for
boys (ATLAS) and girls (ATHENA) to coexist with the assorted
reasons each uses performance-enhancing and body-shaping drugs.
Both programs ingest 45-minute, student-led sessions to teach
most risks related with endocrine and drug use. solon than
60 U.S. high schools ingest the programs.On assistance to
speak at the ceremony were Sens. Evangelist McCain, R-Ariz.;
Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del.; and Rep. Thomas M. Davis III,
R-Va., every of whom were instrumental in the hearings held
by legislature last March to play the endocrine problems in
professional sports.McCain, who sponsored the Clean Sports
Act of 2005, said that testimony by parents whose children
committed suicide due to steroids grabbed the attention of
legislature more than the Major League Baseball players who
gained most of the media attention during the hearings.According
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2003 report,
nearly 850,000 high school athletes admitted using steroids,
one in every 45 athletes, nearly triple the numbers from 1993.Biden
said some members of legislature hoped to spend more than
$350 meg for endocrine prevention programs over the past digit
years, but the money was not approved.He applauded the efforts
of Sports Illustrated and said he foresees $15 meg of federal
money going to ATHENS and ATHENA this year.
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But he said there is still a long way
to go in the effort against steroids, a effort he takes personally."What
most the notion that we've always talked most : that a motivated,
coordinated, dedicated athlete crapper imagine of playing
some sport some time," he said. "As a 155-pound halfback ...
I actually believed same thousands of kids that if I meet
worked hornlike enough that this was worthiness I could do
it. And the bastards cheated, they utilised enhancing drugs."This
is most honor ... not meet most health."Source: Scripps Howard
Foundation
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