Waterloo Juiced

I have to admit that I'm somewhat surprised that the University of Waterloo football team has been suspended for the entire upcoming season for 9 steroid/doping infractions. This then raises the question, should we have steroid testing in Canadian amateur sports? The CIAU obviously has a testing program which caught these cases, but should testing programs be applied to high school sports? It is something which substantially increases performance while having serious negative long term health effects. There is significant incentive for young athletes to risk their long term health for short term gain, and it is something that should be monitored.

When I played high school football in Ontario, I never knew anyone who openly took steroids, but there were some people that many suspected may be juicing. One of my friends and teammates even went on to play for the Waterloo Warriors, though he was just a "pork rind eating lineman on the Scout Team" and never made "starting defense"...