7 May 2025

Performance enhancing drugs more common in checking clinics

From Checkpoint, 4:36 pm on 7 May 2025

Steroids and other performance and image enhancing drugs are becoming more common in drug checking clinics. KnowYourStuff and the New Zealand Needle Exchange programme say the amount of people bringing in steroids and similar drugs has jumped in the past two years. Users are buying substances online through websites and on social media - and Netsafe said it's a growing problem. Bella Craig reports.