BY JIM VERTUNO updated 3:35 p.m. ET Jan. 30, 2011 AUSTIN, Texas – When Texas began testing tens of thousands of high school athletes for steroids, the goal was to stop teens from taking dangerous performance-enhancing drugs. The death of a 17-year-old baseball player in a Dallas suburb had drawn national attention to the hazard. But that […]

The issue of performance enhancing drugs, or PEDs, is a hot-button topic for many sports fans. The common argument among those that favor allowing PEDs in sports is the notion that if everyone is doing it, then it is not an advantage. The arguments against PEDS are a bit more practical as they run the […]

We get attacked on a regular basis about our contention that anabolic steroids are dangerous.  (These attacks can be vicious and are almost always sent to us anonymously.) Here is one more scientist speaking to one of the many dangers of using these drugs. Don Anabolic steroids making musclemen infertile, say doctors Bodybuilders destroying their […]

At age 16, Taylor Hooton was 6 feet 2 inches, 180 pounds and muscular but wanted more. He wanted bigger, better. So he used steroids, unaware of the steroid-induced depression he could experience as one of a number of side effects. That depression led to his suicide. This is the opening punch Don Hooton threw […]

Everybody would agree that anabolic steroids are not for everyone. In fact, the primary use of this substance is for medical treatment of some health conditions. Through the years, steroids became popular among bodybuilders and professional athletes because of its performance enhancing effects. Bodybuilders use steroids to bulk up or build more lean muscles quickly. It can also improve […]

Every parent should spend a few minutes and absorb.  And realize that this message applies to YOU and your family! Don Over the last few years, it has been almost impossible to talk about sports without the issue of performance-enhancing drugs (steroids, etc.) coming up, especially when some high profile trials occur in the near […]

For years Lance Armstrong has provided an inspirational survivor story and been a strong role model for children.  Some have called him one of the biggest sports icons of all time.  In addition to his many successes in cycling, he has done incredible philanthropic work at home and around the world. The allegations of performance […]

For those of you that follow our work, it will come as no surprise to you to learn that another study has revealed just how easy it is to purchase anabolic steroids over the Internet, even from sites like Amazon.com! Parents, WAKE UP.  Stop assuming that YOUR child just couldn’t be using steroids.  Heck, they […]

Crusading anti-doping speaker hopes to educate unsuspecting parents and teens WATERLOO — Just who is using anabolic steroids? Don Hooton Jr.’s answer might surprise you. Those grunting muscle-heads at your local gym and the eight dirty University of Waterloo football players aren’t the only ones. According to the Texas-based anti-doping crusader, a million high school […]

BATON ROUGE – This week the Taylor Hooton Foundation (THF), the nation's leading organization dedicated to fighting youth steroid abuse announced a partnership with the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA). The LHSAA leadership announced that they will endorse the THF's Hoot's Chalk talk e-Learning Program to their members. Hoot’s Chalk Talk e-Learning Program is […]