Suicide of Taylor Hooton

Taylor Hooton was a student and baseball player at Plano West Senior High School in Plano, Texas, who committed suicide on July 15, 2003. Taylor began using a combination of two anabolic steroids (anadrol and deca durabolin) about 7 months before his death. A number of world-renown physicians have review Taylor's case and have concluded that his suicide likely resulted from the severe depression that set in when he was withdrawing from steroid usage via a condition know as ASIH (Anabolic Steroid Induced Hypogonadism).
Taylor's father, Donald Hooton, subsequently formed the Taylor Hooton Foundation (www.taylorhooton.org) in Taylor's name, a non-profit organization, dedicated to educating youth, parents, coaches and others about the dangers of anabolic steroids and other appearance and performance enhancing drugs (APEDs).
Donald Hooton has testified as an expert witness on this subject before the US Congress on three occasions. He has spoken to multiple state legislatures, met with the governors of several states, and spoken to over a half of a million people across the US and Canada on this topic.
For his work in this field, Donald Hooton was awarded:
* Texas Sports Personality of the Year by the Dallas Morning News in 2005
* 15th Most Powerful Sports Person in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex by the Dallas Observer
* one of the 100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America by the Institute for International Sport
* the Distinguished Service Award by the United States Sports Academy.
Taylor was a cousin of Burt Hooton, a former Major League Baseball pitcher.<ref name=NYT/>

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