Commentart By Mike Celizic

MSNBC contributor

Updated 8:00 p.m. ET, Thur., Jan. 24, 2008

The question isn’t why kids take steroids. Rather, it is why the great majority of teens aspiring to be professional athletes don’t take steroids, and why we do virtually nothing to attempt to stop the minority who do.

Statistics vary but the latest national survey of steroid use among teens reports that 3.5 percent of high school seniors admitted to using steroids at least once. That doesn’t sound like a lot. But it’s a 67 percent increase over the 1991 and a 17 percent increase over figures cited by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 1999. So, while the numbers look small, they’re rising rapidly, and that’s an indictment of an education system that would rather invent reasons why it can’t -– or won’t — do anything about it than find ways to stop it.

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