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SPORTS DOCTOR WARNS ABOUT STEROID DANGERS

The steroid saga is not going away.

Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte are the new poster children for steroid use, surpassing Barry Bonds and Jose Canseco. And now, a new face is emerging, as a potential user.

For high school and college students, it has become a case of the risks being worth the rewards with a recent ATLAS (Adolescents Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids) study uncovering that an estimated 4 – 12% of high school males have used steroids and that 15 – 20% of college athletes use steroids.

Now, one Bronx doctor is doing what he can to provide students with the essential, albeit well known, information that bears repeating to help students stay away from the pratfalls their idols can