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Anabolic Steroid Statistics
STATISTICS AND FACTS WE FOUND WHILE RESEARCHING
- Survey administered to kids in fifth, sixth and seventh grade (ages 9-13)
- 5.4% of all middle school students reported using steroids...
- 2.6% were males...
- 2.8% were females...
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse.
- 1,084,000 adult Americans have reported using steroids...
- More males uses steroids than females...
- In 1997, about 175,000 teenage girls reported taking anabolic steroids at least once within the past year, an increase of
100 percent since 1991....
- 44.5 percent of seniors feel it would be fairly or very easy for them to get steroids...
- 2.7% of Highschool seinors reported using steroids in 1998...
- Substances And Methods Banned by The IOC.
- SUBSTANCES--
- Stimulants (Amphetamines, Caffine, Cocaine)..
- Narcotics (Dextromoramide, Diamorphine, Methadone, Morphine)..
- Anabolic agents (Anabolic steroids, [Beta]2 agonists)..
- Diuretics (Acetazolamide, Chlorthalidone, Spironolactone)..
- PROHIBITED METHODS--
- Blood doping (administration of blood)..
- Pharmaceutical, chemical, and physical manipulation of samples (spiking of urine samples)..
- SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED DRUG CLASSES--
- Alcohol, Marijuana, Local Anaesthetics, Cortcosteroids, [beta]-blockers..
- Steroid use is growing fastest among 12-17 year old males, and the average adolescents begin using steroids at age 15 (Lovitch).
- The number of male highschool athletes using steroids is 6.6 percent and out of the 6.6 percent, 40 percent are hard-core users(Denham).
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