Steroid Drugs: Misuse
(asked on 19th May 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the harms caused by Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs.
This question was answered on 26th May 2021
No recent assessment has been made.
Public Health England (PHE) records the numbers of people who are in drug treatment reporting a problem with image and performance enhancing drugs, including anabolic steroids. These numbers are low and are included in the figures for ‘other’ drugs in PHE’s annual reports on alcohol and drug treatment.