By Jaylon Thompson / MLB.com | June 7th, 2017 ATLANTA — Early Tuesday morning, Woodstock, Ga., resident Victor Cannon made the near 20-mile drive to SunTrust Park for a unique opportunity. Along with his 11-year-old son, Victor Cannon III, the duo participated in the National PLAY (Promoting a Lifetime of Activity for Youth) Campaign started […]

Who says you can’t get outside and be active on a rainy day in May? It helps when you’ve got a big league ballpark to make use of, and the Rockies made full use of Coors Field on Saturday to give about 50 children the chance to learn from Major League players and try some […]

Nearly 12 percent of children (about one in nine) in the United States use a complementary health approach, such as dietary or herbal supplements. Some teens use products advertised as dietary supplements for weight loss or bodybuilding. Increasingly, products sold as dietary supplements, particularly for weight loss and bodybuilding, contain ingredients that could be harmful, including […]

BODYBUILDERS who abuse steroids risk fatally damaging their heart, warns new research. Long-term anabolic steroid use may reduce the heart’s ability to pump blood throughout the body, according to the study. And the research, published in the journal Circulation, also shows that long-term use of steroids damages the heart muscle’s ability to relax and may […]

AUDIENCE: Patient, Endocrinology, Internal Medicine ISSUE: FDA approved class-wide labeling changes for all prescription testosterone products, adding a new Warning and updating the Abuse and Dependence section to include new safety information from published literature and case reports regarding the risks associated with abuse and dependence of testosterone and other AAS.  The Anabolic Steroids Control […]

Dateline DEA, Washington, DC Retired Special Agent Jack Robertson received the Taylor Hooton Foundation’s prestigious 2017 Legacy Award at an “All-Star Gala” event in Dallas on March 25. Several family members, friends and DEA colleagues attended the event. “Each year we recognize individuals who have made a significant contribution to the fight against appearance and […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   TONY WATSON JOINS TAYLOR HOOTON FOUNDATION’S ADVISORY BOARD OF MAJOR-LEAGUE PLAYERS Pirates Closer Joins 39 Others in Helping to Educate Young People  About the Dangers of Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs   McKinney, Texas (Monday, May 8, 2017) – The Taylor Hooton Foundation announced today that Tony Watson of the Pittsburgh Pirates has […]

Bill Madden, NY Daily News, May 5, 2017 Ever since 2003, when his own son, Taylor, committed suicide after suffering from depression as a result of using anabolic steroids, Don Hooton has embarked on a determined and often lonely mission to educate the youth of America about the dangers of PEDs. A week ago, Hooton […]

 – It’s not just pro athletes any more WASHINGTON — A dozen years ago, Congress held widely-publicized hearings to lambaste Major League Baseball stars for using steroids and similar performance-enhancing substances, which were filtering down to youth sports in part because of their role modeling. Down the street here Thursday afternoon, providers and advocates conveyed […]

Jake Arrieta might be the Cubs’ most tested player under baseball’s “random” testing program for performance enhancing drugs,  enough that the muscular power pitcher might be able to make a case he’s being profiled. “I was tested a couple weeks ago. I have one today,” he said Tuesday before the Cubs rallied to beat the […]