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Big Texas Steroid Sweep Nets 2 Students

More than 10,000 are clean in nation's largest such testing

By Drew Nelles, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 23, 2008 6:01 PM CDT

(Newser) – Texas’s $6-million program to test high school athletes for steroids found two students out of 10,117 were using the drugs, the AP reports. Supporters called the testing, the country's largest, a deterrent, but critics see it as a waste of taxpayer money. About... Read full story »

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