“Each year in the US over 25 percent of high school athletes will use some type of performance-enhancing drug, and well over 50 percent will use some type of energy-enhancing substance,” says Mike Gimbel. Gimbel is a substance abuse trainer for the NCAA and runs a program called “Powered by Me!” “Many of these supplements […]

As sports officials fight to end the use of performance-enhancing drugs by big-name athletes, they face a new foe in South Florida: Parents seeking the dangerous chemicals to help their teens fulfill athletic dreams, a Sun Sentinel investigation has found. The parents want the same substances — human growth hormone and anabolic steroids — that […]

The Little League World Series begins Thursday, but the most important development at this year’s gathering of the world’s top 12-year-old baseball teams won’t happen on the iconic Howard J. Lamade Stadium field. For the first time, Little League, which boasts a membership of more than 2.4 million boys and girls around the world, will […]

Students across the country continue to report high usage levels of anabolic steroids.  And our nation continues to do almost NOTHING about the problem. Newspapers in Florida are reporting on this troubling trend.  They report that about 4% of students admit to having used steroids.  That’s almost one child in every high school classroom in […]

Little League Baseball plans to introduce an educational program for coaches and volunteers intended to raise awareness about the use and dangers of performance-enhancing drugs among young players. Working with the Taylor Hooton Foundation, Little League hopes to have an online program ready for the 2014 season. The youth sports organization had been in discussions […]

Open Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 Close Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 Add this event to your itinerary. Description: Yankee Andy Pettitte and GM Brian Cashman will assist the Taylor Hooton Foundation in its crusade against steroid abuse at the Fourth Annual “Give A Hoot” Benefit at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, Aug. 11, when the […]

Users more aggressive and at significant risk of personal and psychological harm The largest needle exchange service in the State has seen a “dramatic increase” in the number of people, mainly men, who are injecting anabolic steroids. Some 15 per cent of those presenting at Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI) for injecting equipment in the past […]

McKinney, TX (August 5, 2013) – The Taylor Hooton Foundation, widely acknowledged as the leader in the advocacy against performance enhancing drug use by the youth of America, has issued the following statements regarding today’s suspension of Alex Rodriguez by Major League Baseball. “It is with sadness and disappointment that we learned today that Alex Rodriguez […]

Don was invited to appear on this morning’s Mike and Mike Show on ESPN. Listen to his interview here:  http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=9527709

Taylor Hooton had just turned 17 when, in the summer of 2003, he hanged himself. It was a shock to everyone: his family, his friends, his teammates on the Plano West baseball team, where he expected to be a starting pitcher the next season. There was at least circumstantial evidence that the suicide, and the […]