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To the Editor: In their study of the use of multiple drugs among adolescents who use anabolic steroids, DuRant et al. (April 1 issue)¹ used a questionnaire to determine that 6.5 percent of high-school boys enrolled in compulsory health-science classes took these drugs. The authors note that their results depend on the validity of the students' reports, but appear reassured because their findings agree with the figure of 5 to 11 percent reported by others using comparable methods to study similar populations. Anabolic-steroid use seems to have been assessed with a single question, "During your life, how many times have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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