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In a 2002 survey, the youth were asked how easy it was for school aged children to obtain steroids. The survey showed 22% of eighth graders, 33.2% of tenth graders, and 46.1% of twelfth graders reported that steroids were "fairly easy" or "very easy" to obtain (greater). Almost 50 percent of seniors in high school reported that obtaining anabolic steroids is "very easy", the amount of students that have access to steroids is alarmingly high and something must be done to lower it.

With all the controversy surrounding steroids it is no surprise that youth idolizing major league players such as, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGuire, and Jose Conseco, might take the first step towards using steroids. To deal with the steroid problem the Baseball commissioner, Bud Selig, passed a tough new policy to deal with steroid abuse in the major leagues (espn).

According to the Center for Disease Control (cdc), "the number of teens reported to have tried steroids [has] doubled since 1991 (2facts)."......

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