The Adolescents Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids Program: Preventing Drug Use and Promoting Health Behaviors
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A team-centered educational session presented to teenage athletes may be effective in preventing anabolic steroid use. This was the conclusion of researchers who developed classroom and exercise training sessions for 31 high school football teams over three school years. A total of 3,207 athletes participated. Before and after surveys showed that the sessions were effective in reducing the use of anabolic steroids. Many of the athletes also used fewer other drugs such as marijuana, amphetamines, and narcotics.
Publication Name: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1072-4710
Year: 2000
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The Adolescents Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS) Prevention Program: background and results of a model intervention
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An in-school education program on anabolic steroids may increase information and change attitudes toward steroid use among male high school athletes. At one urban high school, 54 football players received eight one-hour sessions on sports nutrition, strength training, and avoidance of steroids from coaches, adolescent team leaders, and research staff. Compared with 24 football players at a different school, the students receiving the program knew more about alternatives to steroids, more about the dangers of steroids, and were less likely to want to use them.
Publication Name: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1072-4710
Year: 1996
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Effects of a multidimensional anabolic steroid prevention intervention: The Adolescents Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids (ATLAS) Program
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A school-based series of classes on the dangers of anabolic steroid use appears to be effective in reducing steroid use among teenage athletes. Athletes often use steroids to boost their performance, but the drugs can have dangerous side effects. Researchers evaluated 7 weekly, 50-minute classes that gave 702 teenage football players comprehensive education in the dangers of steroids and alternatives to their use. This intervention improved the athletes' ability to drop steroid use when compared to a group of 804 athletes who just received a pamphlet about steroids.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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