There is also one effect that especially effects teenagers and nobody else, and I know it is very important for all teens to know this. Dr Wadler speaks on it. “What happens is that steroids close the growth centers in kids bones, once these growth plates are closed, they cannot reopen so adolescents that take to many steroids may end up shorter than they should have been”.
           

Anabolic Steroid Use by Students
Year 2004 Monitoring the Future Survey