TY  - JOUR
T1  - ANabolic steroid use among male high school seniors-reply
AU  - Buckley WE, Yesalis CE, III
Y1  - 1989/05/12
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1989.03420180063032
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2640
EP  - 2640
VL  - 261
IS  - 18
N2  - In Reply. — 
    Amsel et al make several observations that further focus the public health implications of the nonmedical use of anabolic steroids. While the extent of needle sharing among anabolic steroid users is unknown, we agree that this behavior could increase the rate of human immunodeficiency virus infection. In fact, we mention this concern in an article that will appear in the Journal of Drug Education.1Drs Eriksen and Kondo criticize the generalizability of our findings to the entire population of adolescent males. In our study, we made every attempt to consider the characteristics of the sampling process as it relates to its representativeness as well as to the issues of overreporting and underreporting. We acknowledged in our article that the presence of a certified athletic trainer as a requisite for a high school to be in the study population introduces a potential bias. However, we contend that
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1989.03420180063032
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03420180063032
ER  -