How common is doping at the NCAA and post-collegiate amateur levels?

From my collegiate experience, there were a lore more issues with recreational drugs than there were with performance enhancing ones...

But I suspect there are at least a few dopers in NCAA programs. Probably clustered in programs that are dirty with coaches that look the other way while athletes use small doses while coming back from injury or in oft season.

Most post collegiate amateur runners loose money running, but for runners on the edge of a trials qualifier, there is certainly an incentive to cross that line without much risk.

5:30+ milers: 100% clean

5:00-5:29: 99.9% clean

4:40-4:59: 99% clean

4:20-4:39: 95% clean

4:10-4:19: 90% clean

4:00-4:09: 80% clean

3:50-3:59: 60% clean

3:49 and below: 30% clean

4:20 to 4:39 has to be female, right? Who has so little talent they'd dope for only 4:20?

Athletes injecting themselves with EPO or something similar - Probably zero

Athletes taking some type of oral research chemical like cardarine - Probably a handful

Athletes with a fake TUE - Probably a handful (just to clarify. "Fake" meaning they don't really have the condition, but were able to convince a doctor they do. Or some coach shenanigans)

Athletes taking prescription meds without a TUE - Probably a handful

Athletes taking recreation drugs - A lot

Also, how do you define clean? Would you consider someone using beta-alanine, adderall, caffeine to be doping?

It exists in the ncaa but is probably lower than in other sports like football.

Doping happens at all levels, but is rampant at the pro level.

There are some middle-aged men that would dope for a 4:20 - 4:39. It's a good masters time.

I am using 'doping' in the colloquial sense. Any intentional ingestion or injection of a substance known to enhance performance that is banned by USADA, WADA, etc. Nobody outside of Utah really thinks that caffeine is doping.

I know an All-American hurdler and P5 conference champion who took steroids during the summer each year before school started back up. Never got busted. Never ran post collegiately either.

You’re the Finance bro, shouldn’t you be able to figure out some of this?

1) How many drugs are manufactured that are potential PEDS?

2) How much are consumed for legitimate purposes?

3) Subtract 2) from 1) —> you will find an obscene amount that can only be explained by consumption from the general public.

The thing that opened my eyes to how much people are willing to cheat was cycling. Crits are incredibly dirty. If they’re willing to do dank sh!t in the middle of the race that could seriously hurt someone, they’re willing to break the rules a million other ways.