http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_221_Roid_Rage.mp3 A young bodybuilder who used steroids tells Dick Gordon how "roid rage" eventually saved his life. Plone 2.0 http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_221_Roid_Rage.mp3/logo.jpg http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_221_Roid_Rage.mp3 <h4>'Roid Rage</h4><p><a href="http://www.taylorhooton.org/mattalavi.asp" target="_self"><img class="image-left" src="../graphics/matt-flexing-back.gif" alt="Matt Alavi Flexing Back" height="100" width="100" /></a>Performance-enhancing drugs are everywhere. This week, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell announced that he's committed to completing his investigation into steroid abuse baseball within the coming months.</p><p>People who aren't athletes are also using steroids to slow down the aging process. A pharmacy raid in a Florida exposed people who use human growth hormone as "the new Botox" at anti-aging clinics.</p><p>Matt Alavi started using steroids when he was 23 to get a "little extra boost." Dick Gordon talks to Matt about the muscle magazine ad that motivated him, and how his manic behavior eventually saved his life.</p><blockquote><p>I was pissed with my roommate who started me on steroids... I got the urge to just punch him in the head. But instead I punched a hole in the George Foreman grill and shattered that. I was thinking look what I've done to myself with this crap!<br />- Matt Alavi, former steroid user</p></blockquote><p class="imageleft"><img class="image-left" src="../graphics/steroid-jan-cairnes-2.jpg" alt="Jan Cairnes" height="100" width="100" />Jan Cairnes</p><p>Dick also talks to Jan Cairnes about increasing high school steroid prevention programs. She says that teenagers want their bodies to look a certain way and may not recognize the risks.</p><blockquote><p>The sad thing to say here is that steroids work. And the kids hear that they work … and they know that they work ... However, the side effects are tremendous.<br />- Jan Cairnes</p></blockquote><p>Jan Cairnes is an Addiction Prevention Professional at the Hanley Center in Florida.</p><ul><li>Do you have a <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/performance-enhancing-drugs/SM00045" target="_self">teen athlete</a>? <br /></li><li>Learn more about <a href="http://www.hanleycenter.org/prevention.html#atlas" target="_self">Jan Cairens' steroid prevention</a><br /></li></ul><p><a title="Add To This Story" class="addbtn" href="../addstory" target="_self">Add to Story</a></p> steroids Matt Alavi drugs Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:00:00