Fewer than one in five adults believe steroid use to be a major problem among high school student-athletes, according to a national survey released earlier this month.
The survey, commissioned by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, the Taylor Hooton Foundation, and the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society, gauged the opinions of 1,002 adults ages 18 or older, 52 percent of whom were male, about adolescent steroid use. The Center for Social Development and Education and the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts-Boston conducted the survey.
Among those surveyed, only 17 percent believed steroid use to be a big problem for high school athletes. Forty-six percent said steroid use was a major issue for college-aged athletes, and 63 percent believe it to be a big problem at the professional level. Ninety-seven percent of the survey respondents believed steroids to have negative health effects.
