| This act mandates that each athlete in the above mentioned leagues will be tested a minimum of five times per year on a random schedule. The tests will look for any substance determined by the World Anti-doping Agency as a prohibited substance as well as anything else currently determined to be a performance-enhancing substance. Also according to this act are the suspension stipulations. Athletes who test positive will be suspended for at least a half of a season of play. A second positive test results in a full year of suspension and a third positive test results in permanent suspension from the sport. All of these suspensions also require a suspension of pay for the time lost.
Steroid testing is not just for adults either. High school around the nation are beginning to institute random steroid testing as a stipulation of athletic codes for student athletes. New Jersey is the first state to implement a statewide high school testing policy and they hope to serve as a model plan for other states that want to follow suit. According to this new policy, student athletes that have qualified for state championship events are subject to random testing and those who test positive will suffer a one-year loss of ineligibility. The state plans to test around 600 students during its first year.
This testing is not cheap. It costs about $150-200 per test. That is one of the main reasons why other states have yet to adopt such plans.
There are some individual schools around the nation that have standard drug testing policies, but many of them do not test for steroids.
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