The Daily Mail had a lengthy article on young people’s use of steroids:
They’ve long been used by fanatical body-builders, but today thousands of ordinary teenage boys are abusing steroids – risking brain damage, heart disease and infertility. So how do you spot the danger signs?
The paper quotes Martin Barnes, the Chief Executive of DrugScope, who says there may be 100,000 people using anabolic steroids. Jim McVeigh, from the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University, suggests there may be as many people using steroids as are using heroin.
What is less clear from the article is how many young people may be using the drugs.
DrugScope’s research on young people’s use of steroids came out a little while ago and we covered it here.
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