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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Sep 17.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2006 Nov 28;88(2-3):156–162. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2006.10.013

Table 1. National Studies of Anabolic Steroid Use in Girls.

Study Method Overall sample Subgroup N Prevalence of AAS Use Lifetime prevalence of cannabis use
Lifetime Past Year
CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, 2003 Anonymous questionnaire National sample of high school students 9th grade girls 1809 7.3% 28.1%
10th grade girls 1860 5.1% 36.4%
11th grade girls 1938 4.3% 43.5%
12th grade girls 1922 3.3% 44.9%
CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, 2005 Anonymous questionnaire National sample of high school students 9th grade girls 1735 4.8% 27.8%
10th grade girls 1780 2.5% 35.7%
11th grade girls 1821 2.8% 39.4%
12th grade girls 1817 2.3% 42.8%
Monitoring the Future Study, 2004 Anonymous questionnaire National sample of high school students 8th grade Girls 8708 1.6% 1.0% 15.0%
10th grade Girls 8342 1.4% 0.9% 32.8%
12th grade Girls 7370 2.3% 1.7% 42.6%
Growing up Today Study, 2001a Anonymous questionnaire Children of participants in Nurses Health Study Girls 14-19 3427 0.1% 0.1% 22.6%
National Household Survey, 1994 Questionnaire/Interviewb National population sample Girls 14-19 2062 0.1% 0.1% 21.4%
a

Note that figures shown here are for girls studied in 2001, whereas the most recent publication of the Growing up Today Study (Field et al., 2005) presents data from 1999.

b

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