I was shocked when my 16 year old's friend told me takes steroids for playing basketball tournaments. What should I do now

Well! Steroids at any age are not good for the body but at 16, it is really scary because it can soon become an addiction. He is just 16 and I shudder to think what damaging effects the steroids will have on his physical and mental health if he continues. I think, you can make him go through various articles on the Internet when you see him next time. Since, the issue is so grave, you will have to fully analyse as how to go about it. You can consult your husband and see what suggestion he has to make. You can also off school talk to the sports teacher of the school and without naming the child can tell him that you know that kids whop play sports use steroids and is there anyway in the school through which they make out. And this not to bar the kid from playing or rusticate him from school but to educate kids about what havoc steroids can do to their bodies and lives. Because, the kids are quite young and they may have influences because of which they are using the steroids. You can suggest that they must show movies or documentaries or biographies on lives of sportsperson whose sports career was ruined because of the usage of steroids. You can begin by doing so, and as the things progress, you will have to find more ways to educate. You have to build an understanding with the teachers so that they know that the kids have fallen prey to it and it is not what they would have otherwise done. You will have to be quite careful in handling the whole situation so that in the beginning of the boy's life, he does not face embarrassment and humiliation and his whole life is scarred.