How many people use anabolic steroids?
In 1994, 1,084,000 Americans, or 0.5 percent of the adult population,
said that they had used anabolic steroids, according to the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Household
Survey on Drug Abuse. In the 18 to 34 age group, about 1 percent had
ever used steroids; for ages 35 and older, that figure went down to
0.2 percent. More men than women had used the drugs: 0.9 percent of
men and 0.2 percent of women said they had ever taken steroids..
NIDA's Monitoring the Future study has tracked anabolic steroid use
among middle school and high school students in the United States since
1989. From 1989 to 1996, there was a slight, gradual decline in the
number of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders who had ever used steroids or
used them in the past year. In 1996, 1.8 percent to 2.4 percent of
these students had ever used steroids, and 0.9 percent to 1.5 percent
had used them in the last year.
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