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Steroid use negligible among high school jocks; what about testing police?

After a Texas law passed demanding steroid testing for high school athletes, I argued the program wasted money and ignored more seriously problematic classes of steroid users, particularly in law enforcement where the state has a more compelling interest in preventing illicit steroid use.Now the results are nearly all in, and the state got back only two positive tests after randomly testing more than 10,000 student athletes. That rate of return is good news to the extent it confirms steroid use isn't a big problem among Texas high school athletes, but it was sure a massively expensive and needless waste of time and money to prove that point.Dallas PD recently announced it would begin steroid testing for its officers, but most other Texas police departments do not...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 20, 2008 (boomark / email).