2003 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Self-Reported Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancers

(PPAAUS items 26 & 28) An average of one-half percent of the Franklin County sixth through eighth graders and one-half percent of the ninth through twelfth graders (overall, one-half percent male and less than one-half percent female) reported using steroids regularly. Fewer than one-half percent of the middle-school students and three percent of the high-school students (three percent male and one-half percent female among all students surveyed) used performance enhancers (such as ephedra, glutamine, or creatine) at least once a month.

Ninety-nine percent of the middle-school students and 99 percent of the high-school students had never used steroids, and 99 percent and 94 percent respectively had never used other performance enhancers.

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