As somebody who has been there, how wide spread would you say these problems were?
Seems like Steroids have always had a small cult following. If a major part of that group was having these side effects. I don't see anabolic use having been continued thru the decades the way it has.
Going into the 80's steroids where really popular, and even after they became criminalized in 1991, people continued taking them at the risk of being arrested. People still wanted them that bad... I don't think the number of people affected was large enough to make an impact, do you?
If we go 10yrs back from your twenty. @ the 1976 Mr.O There were already some big mofos competing for the Olympia every year. Some of those guys where already ON year round...
http://www.bodybuildbid.com/articles/mrolympia/olympgal.html
For every guy on that page there were already Millions of others taking Juice.
-BRR