Hoot's Corner

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 […]

This editorial from today’s Newcastle, Australia newspaper succinctly summarizes the risks that people are taking when they use steroids. Every visitor to this site should read this post. Don Steroid abuse is on the increase again. Popular some years ago, anabolic steroids fell into disfavour as their side-effects became apparent and “roid-heads” became objects of […]

A number of police departments around the country already test cops for steroids.  The problem of steroid use has gotten so rampant in New Jersey that some local papers are calling for testing all cops for steroids . . . to keep the public safe! Don In a three-part series published in December, The Star-Ledger […]

These numbers are consistent with numbers we’ve seen across the country.  Somewhere between 4-6% of all high school students admit to KNOWINGLY using anabolic steroids.  Please note that these numbers do not include the number of students who unknowingly ingest steroids via supplements that they purchase across the counter at the local health food store. […]

We’ve posted a lot here recently about the fact that supplements are not regulated.  And, so have a lot of other people. While reading one of the stories on this subject posted on the CBS News web site, I was reading one of the comments that were posted and thought it worth sharing. Parents – […]

It is devastating for anyone to find out that someone they cared about is hooked on an illegal substance such as anabolic steroids – but it is perhaps most devastating for a parent to find that out about their teenaged kids. One of the things that parents can do to ensure that their kids are […]