Who Really Uses Anabolic Steroids?
Last week, the Mitchell Report changed the game of baseball forever by fingering over 80 professional baseball players who may have used anabolic steroids or other illegal performance enhancing substances. Interestingly, just months earlier a study published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition revealed that anabolic steroid use in competitive athletics may not be the real problem. Nearly 2000 men were recruited from various strength training and supplement Internet sites, e-mails and print media to complete an anonymous web-survey to determine the real motivation and characteristics of anabolic steroid users in America. The results WILL surprise you. The typical user is NOT the high school-age male or female athlete. In fact, only 6% of those surveyed reported being motivated by sports or bodybuilding. Researchers identified the most common characteristics of anabolic steroid users as: Caucasian (88%), having a college education (74%), “white”-collar employm
