The NFL’s Miami Dolphin announced that they will implement the NFL ATLAS & ATHENA anti-steroid education program at six local Florida high schools. While the programs do have some empirical support for reduce teen steroid use, the researcher behind the program, Dr. Linn Goldberg, has been known to argue a causal connection between anabolic steroids and paranoia recently stating that steroid use ”makes you paranoid.” Goldberg defended the statement at Steroid.com.

It is not that steroids MAKE you anything, it promotes changes in neurochemistry that make the susceptible more likely to suffer these effects. To believe that powerful hormones don’t cause these changes are to deny both behavioral evidence and evidence of neurochemistry. It is causal! It just requires the susceptible individual. (Emphasis added)

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