Steroids and TeensCause and

Effect

Cooperative Questions

• What is the difference in the overall use of steroids from 1996 to 1999 in grades 8, 10, and 12?

Cooperative Questions

• What is one reason the use of steroids is a growing problem among today’s teenagers?

Cause and Effect

• It is a relationship between two things

• A cause makes something happen

• An effect is what happens; it’s the result

Types of Cause and Effect

• One event causes one other event Cause Effect

• One event causes more than one eventCause Effect

Effect• One effect could have multiple causes

Effect Cause Cause

Identify a Cause or Effect

• “These drugs are used illicitly by weight lifters, body builders, long distance runners, cyclists, and others who claim that these drugs give them a competitive advantage and/or improve their physical appearance.”

•Identify the cause in this excerpt.•What is the effect of the cause?

Identify a Cause or Effect

Cause- Teen Steroid AbuseEffect- Several negative

side effects

• Sterility• Premature Ossification• Aggressiveness• Acne• Connective Tissue Injury• Masculinization

Focus on Effects

Aggressiveness

Acne

Irreversible connective tissue injury

CauseTeen steroid

abuse

Effects

Identify a Cause or Effect

Effect- Teens experimenting with steroids

Multiple Causes:• Not making the sports team• Not meeting peer pressure demands• Not getting “the girls”• Not being able to compete with others who are

using steroids• Not looking as good as they want

Focus on Causes

EffectTeens

experimenting with

steroids

Causes

Not making the sports team

Not meeting peer pressure demands

Not being able to compete with others who are using steroids

Identify a Cause or Effect

• Today’s teens have seen many of their athletic role models admit to some form of steroid use at some time in their lives. This may be giving them mixed messages. It may suggest that steroid use is the necessary ingredient to develop a career in sports.

• Cause?

• Effect #1?• Effect #2?

Infer the Cause or Effect

• “ Parents and coaches often demand that young athletes aspire to greatness at any cost.”

What inference can we make about what young athletes might do in order to achieve greatness?

Infer the Cause or Effect

• Teenagers can have a great impact (positive or negative) on the actions of other teens and whether they choose to use steroids or not.

• What inference can we make about the types of actions that teens might take to prevent or encourage the use of steroids in other teens?

Practice - Cause and Effect [IA17]

• Explain why teenagers use steroids. Include two details from the selection in your answer.

Practice - Cause and Effect [IA17]

• What problem do teenagers experience in the selection? What are three events that happen as a result of the problem? Include information from the selection in your answer.

Reflections on Steroids Use

http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugpages/PSAGamePlan.html