b'WHY ARE SO MANY GIRLSUSING ANABOLIC STEROIDS?By Don Hooton, Jr. | ContributorWhen it comes to the use of Appearance & Performance Enhancing Substances, including anabolic steroids, there is a perception that only males, primarily male athletes, use these substances to help them achieve their physical goals. What always seems to shock people is when they learn that surveys continue to state a large and growing number of females also admit to using these drugs.Inarecentsurveyfromthesummerof2019completedby Washington D.C.-based Digital Citizens Alliance, we learned thatTHE NEW FACE OF STEROIDS8% of females surveyed admitted to using anabolic steroids. That is an eye-opening number, and it should be! Most people believeTEEN GIRLS ARE that this issue is only happening in professional sports and believe that people are using these substances to help them perform on theTHE FASTEST field of play. Yet, as part of that survey, the respondents reportedGROWING that 53% of the users cited improve physical appearance as the reason they use these drugs. USER GROUP OF Take a few moments today to look at some of the advertisementsANABOLIC that companies are running and take note of how many females intheseadsarehalfdressedorwearingrevealingoutfits.InSTEROIDSa society that is driven by body image, its no surprise females feel pressure to use anabolic steroids with the mindset that they are the key to achieving what society tells us is a perfect body. The most thought-provoking question when it comes to taking drasticmeasurestoachievesocietysperfectbody,is,Do females know what the health risks of using these drugs actually are? Wed like to think that people have an understanding of the health risks associated with the use of anabolic steroids, but sadly this is a topic that is rarely talked about in our social groups as well as in our schools. Typically, when we do talk about this topic amongst ourselves, its not about females using these drugs to try and improve their physique, rather its which athlete is using these drugs to perform or who has recently tested positive for Performance Enhancing Drugs in professional sports.As the nations leading organization on the subject of Appearance andPerformanceEnhancingSubstances,theTaylorHooton ACTOR PORTRAYAL Photography by Nikki Glasgow66GoodLifeFamilyMag.comJANUARY | FEBRUARY 2020PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO OUR SCHOLARSHIP FUND TO HELP US BRING STEROID EDUCATION TO UNDERFUNDED SCHOOLS'