https://freerepublic.com/tag/sportssupplements/ en-us Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:30:55 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/706217/posts NEW LAWS CURB TEEN SPORT DRUGS As Diet Supplements Gain Popularity, States Move to Regulate Use By Young Athletes OAKLAND, CALIF. - The days when performance-enhancing drugs were the stuff of East German Olympians and a few light-witted linebackers are over. On high school football fields from Nebraska to California, students are turning themselves into pad-clad rockets by taking pills that give them an abnormal surge of strength - and have been blamed for 80 deaths nationwide. Teenage linemen weighing 300 lbs., once unheard of, are now as common as helmets and cleats - a trend many attribute, in part,... Christian Science Monitor https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/706217/posts#comment Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:30:55 GMT