Baseball and Drugs Links: An op-ed in the New York Times today highlights a major problem of the current drug problem in sports: it does not stop at the professional or collegiate level, but is also seen in high school. My brother was friends with the young athlete mentioned in this piece, and so I know first-hand the dangerous consequences of performance-enhancing drugs.



For a great deal more on this topic, check out Only Baseball Matters, where John has a number of posts and many links to outside sources that have addressed this issue.



And the debate at Legal Affairs continues between Roberts and Finkelman.



Update: For more on the impact performance-enhancing drugs can have on children, read this article from the current Newsweek. Plano West, the school featured on the cover, is where both of my brothers went and is across the street from my parents' house.



You may also remember Plano from such scandals as the heroin bust that occurred at my high school in the late 90s, as well as the rash of teenage suicides from a decade earlier. This is a city that has been named a Top-10 Kid Friendly city and one of the Top 50 places in America to raise a family.

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