The AP reports that 11% high school students have injected synthetic hGH - 9% of girls and 12% of boys have tried it at least once. At least, that's what the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids wants people to think. This compares with 7% of teens who reported using anabolic steroids during the same period.
Even though synthetic hGH is a pharmaceutical drug not sold in sports nutrition stores, the Partnership and USADA CEO Travis Tygart blamed the sports supplement segment's marketing of "performance-enhancing supplements" for the doubling of teen self-reported hGH use.
It seems obvious to most, even to the Partnership and USADA, that the teens were probably referring to "muscle-building" supplements they bought over-the-counter and online rather than any real synthetic hGH.
http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=1073779#.U8_c4fmSySo
Even though synthetic hGH is a pharmaceutical drug not sold in sports nutrition stores, the Partnership and USADA CEO Travis Tygart blamed the sports supplement segment's marketing of "performance-enhancing supplements" for the doubling of teen self-reported hGH use.
It seems obvious to most, even to the Partnership and USADA, that the teens were probably referring to "muscle-building" supplements they bought over-the-counter and online rather than any real synthetic hGH.
http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=1073779#.U8_c4fmSySo
