Problem of Anabolic Steroids

However, professional athletes and young athletes in high school and college are still using anabolic steroids as well. The scope of the problem is considerable. It is estimated that over one million Americans, half of them adolescents, use blackmarket steroids, while countless others are choosing from among more than 100 other substances, legal and illegal, touted as physique boosters and performance enhancers. Over half the teens that use steroids start before age 16, sometimes with the encouragement of their parents. Many of the six to twelve percent of boys who use steroids want to be sports champions, but more than one third are not even on a highschool team. The typical user is middleclass and white. Fiftyseven percent of teen users report that they were influenced by the numerous muscle magazines that today reach a readership of at least seven million, and 42 perc

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men spend more than twice as much as women in all categories related to fitness, including clothing, exercise equipment, membership fees and instruction, and this includes spending money on illicit substances that will assist: One of the sad consequences of the push towards a hypermasculine image is that it can rarely be obtained without the use of potentially harmful drugs. A 1993 study conducted for the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport concluded that four per cent of males aged 11 to 18as many as 83,000 young Canadiansused anabolic steroids in 1992 and 1993. In the study, which involved 16,169 highschool and elementary students, one in five reported that they knew someone who was taking anabolic steroids. Among the reasons given for their use, nearly half said it was to change their physical appearance. That contrasted starkly with previously held notions that steroids were used mostly to increase athletic performance. . . (McClelland, 1999, 38). American studies show similar rates of use and an increase in the rate of use among young people seeking to change their body image or to enhance athletic performance. The results of one study intended to determine the extent of the use of anabolic steroids in a populat
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