Hoot's Corner

The Taylor Hooton Foundation is pleased to announce that our Hoot’s Chalk Talk program has been approved for presentation to law enforcement personnel. The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCLEOSE) reviewed our Hoot’s Chalk Talk program and have approved our curriculum.  Officers who successfully take the course and pass our test will be entitled to […]

What else can we say or do to get peoples’ attention?  Here is ANOTHER death which the doctors attribute to anaabolic steroids! This time, it was a 19-year old health fanatic! Don A teenager died from heart failure  after taking steroids he had ordered from a website, an inquest heard. Mohammed Belkhair, 19, suffered a […]

  WASHINGTON — Major League Baseball and the Players Association have closed the gap in the collection system that led to Brewers left-fielder Ryan Braun’s suspension being overturned under the sport’s Joint Drug Agreement, according to key officials with the league and the union. “We made some immediate changes in the wake of the Braun […]

A study was just released that once again proves the correlation between the use of anabolic steroids and negative affects on the heart. Don Anabolic androgenic steroid use is associated with ventricular dysfunction on cardiac MRI in strength trained athletes Background Uncertainty remains about possible cardiac adaptation to resistance training. Androgenic anabolic steroids (AAS) use […]

The needle is 21 gauge, 1.5in. A hogsticker. Forty of them arrived in a package from Greece. Ever received a package from overseas? You get that puff of air when you rip it open – air that’s travelled thousands of miles. Foreign, like stepping into a stranger’s house. The syringe wrapper has instructions in Italian, […]

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 […]