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Like his father, Don Hooton, Jr. is committed to telling his brother’s tragic story to America’s youth.

"My brother Taylor started using steroids when he was 16 years old because he thought he had to do it to be a better baseball player,” Hooton told of group of Houston-area youth Tuesday at Minute Maid Park. “Six months later, he was dead."

Taylor Hooton was a high school baseball player in the Dallas suburb of Plano when he began using performance-enhancing drugs. Within months, he began experiencing severe depression.

In July of 2003, he committed suicide.

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