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 Few caught by steroid testing in high school
Few caught by steroid testing in high school Dallas Morning News
New Jersey, Florida, Texas and Illinois have tried steroid testing since 2006, and an examination of the results by The Associated Press shows that only 20 tests out of 30,799 have come back positive. [...]
The AP's examination of the states' steroid tests showed limited impact when it came to catching users:
_ While 20 tests came back positive, six were granted medical exemptions.
_ Another 12 tests in Texas are being rechecked because the results were unresolved. Officials there also have classified another 70 cases as "process positives" because students refused to give urine samples or had unexcused absences when they were called.
_ Accounting for the exemptions and process positives, and assuming every unresolved test is positive, that still means tests revealed 78 steroid users at most. That translates into one user for every 320 tests given. ... More... |
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