The term performance enhancing drugs encompass a lot more than just steroids.  One of the latest fads is energy drinks!  Moms and dads naively introduce these drinks to their kids when they are very young. Encouraging kids to think that improved performance can be found in a bottle or can begins to shape their entire […]

Visitors, Please pay attention to this new data (which we believe understates the magnitude of this problem).  Parents and coaches are pushing young athletes to begin taking supplements at surprisingly young ages.  The average age for youth supplement use is now 10.8 years old! Please read that again and let it sink in.  Kids this […]

The use of steroids and other appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs is on the rise among American youth, and their use is not limited to athletes. In fact the fastest growing group of anabolic steroid users is high school freshman girls, said Clint Faught with theTaylor Hooton Foundation - a nonprofit group dedicated to educating students about […]

ABILENE, Texas - Clint Faught will speak about the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs in the world of sports at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, in the Mabee Room of the Garrison Campus Center. The talk is free and open to the public. Clint travels across North America to high schools, middle schools, […]

The Taylor Hooton Foundation is the only national organization that is dedicated to educating the youth of America of the dangers of the use and abuse of steroids. Clint Faught travels across the country visiting high schools, universities and any organization that will help him get the word out to young athletes about the dangers […]

Carlos Umana, 17, loves the game of basketball but if there is one thing he hates it is cheaters — especially those who use steroids. That philosophy gave him an idea on how to reach his peers and discourage the use of performance-enhancing substances in sports. His idea landed him the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s […]

Stephen Bailey should not have survived, his doctor says. Not after taking 200 Tylenol PM tablets, a dose that shut down his liver. But after four months at Tampa General Hospital, procedures to stop his brain from swelling and repair damage to his liver, lungs, nerves, intestines, kidneys and colon, the 25-year-old Sebring man went […]

Over the counter supplements can be dangerous.  Very dangerous! These substances are unregulated and are marketed to our young people who assume that if they are buying a product at a GNC or other health food store, they that product “must be safe”.  As we are leaning, that is not always the case. Don A […]

Excerpts take from ‘Accused says he’s ‘sorry what I did”, originally published by the Press Republican on February 22nd 2012. Steroids Made Me Do It After Robert J. McCann was arrested, the list of the accused crimes he committed was hard to read; attempted murder, kidnapping, stalking, rape and assault of his ex-girlfriend. His reasoning behind commiting these […]

When Dave Ellis began studying to be a dietitian at the University of Nebraska in 1982, combining sports and nutrition into a full-time job was a fresh concept. A student assistant strength coach for Tom Osborne’s football team, Ellis saw his role expand substantially after the training table manager put out a bratwurst and Braunschweiger […]