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Senate approves ban on coaches pushing athlete supplements.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-MAR-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Senate approves ban on coaches pushing athlete supplements.(Health)(The bill comes after South Eugene coach Chris Miller acknowledged selling creatine)

Article Excerpt
Byline: David Steves and Tim Christie The Register-Guard

SALEM - Oregon would be among the first states in the country to bar coaches from encouraging their student-athletes to use performance-enhancing supplements under a bill that sailed through the Senate Tuesday.

Senate Bill 6 passed 23-2, spurred in part by the disclosure in 2003 that South Eugene High School football coach Chris Miller was selling the supplement creatine to his players, sometimes on campus.

The bill, which now goes to the House, would prohibit school employees and volunteers from promoting, suggesting or supplying performance-enhancing supplements to students. Those who knowingly violate such a ban would face a $500 fine, three months in jail, or both.

High school sports administrators in Oregon and around the country, as well as pediatricians, have argued for years against the use of supplements among high school athletes, and against coaches...

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