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Article: Anabolic Steroids Are Easily Purchased Without a Prescription and Present Significant Challenges to Law Enforcement Officials.
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- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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GAO-06-243R November 3, 2005
This report responds to a Congressional request that we investigate whether anabolic steroids can be purchased without a prescription and test whether such purchases are easily made. Congress also asked us to identify common sources of illegal anabolic steroids, and significant challenges law enforcement officials encounter in investigating, prosecuting, and deterring criminal anabolic steroid traffickers.
Our investigators easily obtained anabolic steroids without a prescription through the Internet. After conducting Internet searches, they found hundreds of Web sites offering anabolic steroids commonly used by athletes and ...