Video & Transcript Research : 'steroids'
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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And what's the effect on the athlete of the steroids? Thank you very much.
- In an athletic competition, who is taking steroids defined in law?
- Steroids given for this purpose, does it enhance their performance?
- , the dosage of the steroid.
- The reasons that you would be taking steroids that are valid and yet may not.
Keywords:
residency, public schools, child safety placement, enrollment, education code, school boards, transparency, public meetings, attendance, recording, misconduct, child abuse, educators, investigation, criminal offense, education law, suspension, reporting requirements, released time, religious instruction
TX
Keywords:
parental rights, education, social transitioning, diversity, equity, inclusion, school policy, student clubs, residency, public schools, child safety placement, enrollment, education code, school boards, transparency, public meetings, attendance, recording, released time, religious instruction
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- it's evidently not clear for UIL to specifically have on their list that you can't use anabolic steroids
- Although sometimes I've seen that steroids have been used over the years, athletes have used steroids
- A question: What happens if an athlete has used a steroid that enhances performance?
Bills:
SB2920, SB2929, SB2398, SB865, SB401, SB2619, SB2927, SB1395, SB1972, SB2540, SB1635, SB1581, SB2008
Keywords:
steroids, student athletes, athletic competition, University Interscholastic League, medical purpose, gender transition, school athletics, spectator conduct, referees, ejection policy, extracurricular activities, concussion, brain injury, school policy, academic accommodations, student welfare, cardiac arrest, emergency response, CPR training, automated external defibrillators
TX
Bills:
SB2920, SB2929, SB2398, SB865, SB401, SB2619, SB2927, SB1395, SB1972, SB2540, SB1635, SB1581, SB2008
Keywords:
steroids, student athletes, athletic competition, University Interscholastic League, medical purpose, gender transition, school athletics, spectator conduct, referees, ejection policy, extracurricular activities, concussion, brain injury, school policy, academic accommodations, student welfare, cardiac arrest, emergency response, CPR training, automated external defibrillators
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And what's the effect on the athlete of the steroids?
- Steroids given for this purpose, does it enhance their performance?
- And my question is, if, as you said, steroids enhance their performance.
- Well, then, let me ask it again, does steroids.
- , the dosage of the steroid, there would be a number of factors that would go into that.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/25/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- allows the prescribing of oral steroids allows the prescribing of oral steroids for<00:36:25.000
- Including steroids and carbonic anhydrase inhibitors for prolonged periods are not common.
- I've seen it caused by steroid injections in and around the eye as well.
- I've seen it caused by steroid I've seen it caused by steroid injections<01:10:28.800>
in - populations and and the use of steroids populations and and the use of steroids and<01:32:56.000
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House commerce panel approves HF2403 4/3/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Medicare will cover part of it, and they find out there is this hormone injection or this particular steroid
- Medicare will cover part of it, and they find out there is this hormone injection or this particular steroid
- c> particular hormone injection or this is particular hormone injection or this is particular steroid
- >
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quality
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/7/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- cases injections, and commonly contain harmful active ingredients such as mercury, hydroquinone, steroids
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Keywords:
health care transparency, ownership disclosure, control reporting, health care consolidation, private equity, management services organization, MSO, provider organization, health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, hospital system, affiliate reporting, financial disclosure, public reporting, market concentration, horizontal consolidation, vertical consolidation, health care ownership, corporate practice, health care regulation
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Republican Press Conference 2/26/25
Transcript Highlights:
- experience as a school resource officer and how this stuff flows during a drill and how do we put it on steroids
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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nomination of Jayanta Bhattacharya, of California, to be Director of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. Mar 5th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- There was a study done in the United Kingdom of a cheap steroid called dexamethasone.
- focused on making America healthy that's the mission of the NIH. and you got cut off a little bit on steroids
- So steroids are virtually pennies. They've been around forever.
- Fauci came to this committee in March of 2020 I asked him about using high-dose steroids the way they
- fasciitis and other infections and he said oh they don't work we've tried it and he was adamant that the steroids
Keywords:
NIH funding, healthcare research, chronic diseases, scientific integrity, public trust, pandemic response
Summary:
The meeting of the committee focused on various healthcare and scientific issues, with significant discussions surrounding the impact of recent administrative actions on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its research agenda. Senators expressed concerns over funding cuts and personnel reductions, particularly the reported termination of over 1,200 NIH staff members, which could jeopardize ongoing and future research projects. The session included testimonies on the importance of supporting early-stage researchers and restoring public trust in scientific institutions following pandemic-related controversies. Additionally, the potential for future healthcare management based on diverse scientific ideas was emphasized as crucial to tackle chronic diseases effectively.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Health Jun 21st, 2026 at 09:00 am
Joint Committee on Public Health
Transcript Highlights:
- Many have been found to be laced with prescription drugs, banned substances, steroids, and other dangerous
- Many have been found to be laced with prescription drugs, banned substances, steroids, and other dangerous
- We know these products are often adulterated with dangerous substances like steroids, Adderall, and other
- neighborhood corner store and buy these, quote-unquote, supplements adulterated with amphetamines, Prozac, steroids
- These are my inhalers, my allergy pills, my steroid creams, steroid pills, and nasal sprays.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Health heard testimony on a wide range of bills focused on environmental health, disease prevention, and access to care. Major topics included restricting polystyrene use, creating a pancreatic cancer awareness and early-detection initiative, improving indoor air quality through a task force and new regulations, expanding access to epinephrine in public places, improving access to health care for people with long COVID, creating an OBGYN loan repayment program for underserved areas, expanding access to hygiene products, modernizing licensure for dietitians and nutritionists, updating school postural screening requirements, and restricting harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements. Several legislators also testified in support of their own bills, including measures on menstrual product access and ingredient disclosure, and surgical smoke protections.
Testimony on the polystyrene bill emphasized local municipal bans and the need to reduce plastic pollution. Pancreatic cancer advocates and patients described the disease’s low survival rate, the difficulty of early diagnosis, and the need for an awareness campaign and implementation of commission recommendations. Indoor air quality supporters from environmental justice groups, public health organizations, and residents described asthma, mold, pollution, and the need for a task force with technical expertise; some witnesses urged adding remediation professionals to the task force. On epinephrine access, family members of a man who died after a bee sting and an allergy organization stressed that anaphylaxis can be sudden and fatal and that stock epinephrine in public venues could save lives. Long COVID advocates said the condition affects hundreds of thousands of residents and called for better surveillance and access to care, with a request to include MECFS in the bills’ scope.
Other testimony focused on workforce and equity issues. Supporters of the OBGYN loan repayment bill said it would help address maternal health disparities and provider shortages, especially in rural and underserved communities. Hope and Comfort described widespread hygiene insecurity and a long waiting list for basic products, urging a task force to study statewide solutions. Dietitians and nutritionists supported modernization of licensure to clarify standards for medical nutrition therapy while allowing broader wellness counseling. School nurses backed reducing mandatory postural screenings, arguing the current law is not evidence-based, is not reimbursed by MassHealth, and takes time from other student health needs. On the supplement bill, the industry trade group opposed restrictions as overbroad and burdensome, while a public health expert cited research linking weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to serious harms and urged passage. The committee also heard support for menstrual product access and surgical smoke protections, with legislators and advocates describing those bills as longstanding priorities.
MS
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories can be helpful, but we have to realize that they can be dangerous
- Um, but there is at least one option there or a topical non-steroidal.
- Um, but there is at least one option there or a topical non-steroidal.
- non-steroidal anti-inflammatories can be non-steroidal anti-inflammatories can be helpful,<00:04
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dicloanac uh dicloanac uh dicloanac is<00:04:
Summary:
The committee heard presentations on several Medicaid-related topics. First, a pharmacy representative discussed nonopioid pain medications as a way to reduce opioid dependence and overdose risk, emphasizing that options such as acetaminophen, NSAIDs, and topical diclofenac can be useful for pain management. She cautioned that nonopioids can still have risks and said any policy should avoid requiring patients to step through opioids before accessing safer alternatives, while still allowing reasonable step therapy among nonopioid options. The presenter said the goal is to keep patients from being pushed toward opioids by cost or insurance design.
The committee also heard emotional testimony from parents of a child with Prader-Willi syndrome, who described the condition as a rare genetic disorder that causes severe, lifelong hyperphagia and requires rigid supervision and ongoing treatment. They argued that alternative funding programs can disrupt access to medically necessary drugs such as human growth hormone, forcing families into costly and uncertain coverage gaps. They asked lawmakers to ensure insurance coverage remains stable for rare disease patients and thanked Senator Blackwell for prior support of rare disease legislation.
Next, a Livanova representative urged the committee to support higher Medicaid reimbursement for vagus nerve stimulator surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy. He said inadequate hospital reimbursement has reduced access in Mississippi, causing patients to travel long distances or go without treatment, and argued that better reimbursement would improve outcomes and save money over time. He cited studies showing seizure reductions, lower ER use, and a projected $2.8 million in five-year savings for Medicaid based on 40 patients, and asked that hospitals be reimbursed at 100% of Medicare rates for the procedure codes.
Finally, a Medicaid official gave a broad overview of hospital payment structure, including fee-for-service, managed care, MHAP, DSH, UPL, provider taxes, and related funding mechanisms. She explained that hospital payments are interrelated and have shifted over time, with major changes tied to managed care, MHAP/UPL increases, and provider taxes. At the end of the discussion, the committee was running short on time and asked her to skip ahead to the provider tax component; no votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- These products commonly contain harmful active ingredients such as mercury, hydroquinone, steroids, arsenic
- to change their skin involve mixing multiple products containing mercury, hydroquinone, lead, and steroid-based
- However, steroid-based products are prescribed by doctors, and so, when.
- some of the cases, people that we work with have developed Cushing's syndrome because of usage of steroid-based
Keywords:
health care transparency, ownership disclosure, control reporting, health care consolidation, private equity, management services organization, MSO, provider organization, health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, hospital system, affiliate reporting, financial disclosure, public reporting, market concentration, horizontal consolidation, vertical consolidation, health care ownership, corporate practice, health care regulation
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The other one, the steroids, often for dermatitis, same thing.
- The other one, the steroids, often for dermatitis, same thing.
- The other one, the steroids, often for dermatitis, same thing.
- The other one, the steroids, often for dermatitis, same thing.
- um other one, the steroids um other one, the steroids um<00:52:39.839>
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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Informal House Session 99 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Moran for legislation to establish a commission to research topical steroid addiction and topical steroid
Summary:
The House opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several procedural and legislative matters. Members adopted an order extending the reporting deadline for the Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy Committee on House Document 4654, and later suspended Joint Rule 12 to allow a petition by Frank A. Moran for a commission studying topical steroid addiction and topical steroid syndrome to go to the Public Health Committee. The House also approved scheduling and advancing a local bill designating the tennis courts in Wether Park, Roslindale, as the Kim O’Connell Tennis Courts.
The chamber considered a Senate amendment to House No. 4615, the fiscal year 2025 supplemental appropriations bill, but voted not to concur and instead appointed a conference committee. The House also moved several bills through second and third reading, including measures on child safety, loading light vehicles from car carriers on public ways, increasing penalties for passing stopped school buses, the retirement of Walter L. Gurn of Attleboro, and the Marlborough Ward 7 counselor office. Senate No. 2563, relating to individuals with disabilities, was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
On final action, the House adopted the emergency preamble and passed House No. 4009, authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer service to a parcel in Sharon, and passed House No. 3901, exempting the assistant fire chief position in Natick from civil service. It also engrossed House No. 3897, authorizing Quincy to extend a lease with Quarry Hills Associates, and House No. 4381, regulating the term of the Norwood town moderator. The House then adopted an order to adjourn until Wednesday at 11 a.m. and stood adjourned.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (01/20/2026)
Environment and Agriculture
Transcript Highlights:
- basically up against somebody who's competing, it's like in sports, you know, we ban the use of steroids
- basically up against somebody who's competing, it's like in sports, you know, we ban the use of steroids
- basically up against somebody who's competing, it's like in sports, you know, we ban the use of steroids
- basically up against somebody who's competing, it's like in sports, you know, we ban the use of steroids
- basically up against somebody who's competing, it's like in sports, you know, we ban the use of steroids
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (01/23/2025)
Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Testosterone, if you don't understand, is another word for steroid, and so when men, typically older
- But the problem was that, because chemically steroids and testosterone are essentially the same thing
- and so um it and so word for steroid and so um it and so when<03:47:45.640>
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and <03:48:30.080>testosterone <03:48:30.880>are chemically steroids - and testosterone are chemically steroids and testosterone are essentially<03:48:31.720>
the <03
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Only six states restrict optometrists from treating their patients with oral steroids or oral carbonic
- The bill could also allow steroid injections, as well as cosmetic injections like Botox and fillers.
- The other one, the steroids, is often for dermatitis.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Day 23 (2-9-26)
Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This would just enhance some of the work they're already doing and maybe put that on steroids a little
- they're already doing and maybe put<00:14:39.199>
that <00:14:39.360>on <00:14:39.600>steroids - <00:14:40.639>
Maybe put that on steroids a little bit. - Maybe put that on steroids a little bit.
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, roll call, and approval of the prior journal. The chamber received House messages listing several House bills passed by the House and introduced new Senate measures, including SB 172 on utility fuel adjustment, SB 173 on Medicaid state plan oversight, and several resolutions. The Senate then took up SB 2, which would limit school administrator pay raises so they do not exceed the average percentage raise given to classroom teachers in the same district. Supporters said the bill promotes fairness, transparency, teacher retention, and classroom priorities; it passed 38-0.
The Senate next considered SB 4 on school leadership. The bill creates a five-year principal leadership development pathway, including KDE-led training for new principals, a mentorship program, a gap year with continuing education options, expanded use of an existing Truist/Kentucky Chamber Foundation leadership program, and a final year of approved high-level leadership training providers. A committee substitute changed the Chamber reference to the Kentucky Chamber Foundation. Senators speaking in favor emphasized the need for intentional leadership development and noted the bill builds on existing successful training partnerships. One senator suggested clarifying the term "new principal" to "first-time principal" to avoid redundancy. The bill passed 38-0 as amended.
The Senate also passed SB 71, as amended by committee substitute, which requires ongoing financial training for local school board members. The substitute clarified the training-hour language after consultation with the Kentucky School Boards Association. The sponsor said the measure supports board members with updated school finance knowledge so they can better serve with superintendents and ask informed questions. After passage, the chamber adopted a title amendment for SB 71. The Senate then recessed for committee meetings, received a committee report assigning bills and resolutions to standing committees or the floor, and heard several announcements and co-sponsorship requests.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- A couple of weeks ago, I did a hip injection of a steroid.
- So you gave an example of doing a steroid injection. And how much did that cost that patient?
- Do you have a theory on how much the steroid itself might have cost? I do not. Okay.
Keywords:
health impact analysis, cost analysis, coverage mandates, health insurance, legislative analysis, health care data, education, funding, classroom resources, teacher support, student outcomes, health benefits, provider dentists, payment reimbursement, insurance code, noncontracting, dental care, reimbursement, health benefit plans, noncontracting providers