The Miami-Dade County, Fla., district will pilot a drug-testing program in the coming school year to deter and root out high school athletes who use steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.
Last week’s decision came a day after a Florida man at the center of a Major League Baseball steroid scandal admitted that he had provided performance-enhancing drugs to high school athletes as young as 15, the Miami Herald reported.
District officials said no Miami-Dade high school athletes had been on the client list of Antonio Bosch, the founder of the Biogenesis clinic, who has been charged with providing illegal performance-enhancing drugs to MLB players.
