(WBAP/KLIF News) A North Texas man whose teenage son died after taking steroids has partnered up with doctors and a company to help prevent more tragedy in the future. Don Hooten’s son, Taylor, was playing baseball at Plano West Senior High when a coach told him he needed to beef up. He started taking anabolic steroids, then committed suicide a few months later. Hooten says pediatricians are as unaware of the prevalence of use of the drug among students as parents are. Hooten teamed up with the American Academy of Pediatricians and Kognito, to develop an app to help train doctors how to recognize steroid use in young people. He claims on average, 120 students in each high school across the nation are taking the drugs. Read more here.
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