This paper aims to analyse the use of anabolic drugs among Spanish, Portuguese and Italian students in the Physical Education and Sport Faculties. In order to do it, a survey was conducted in February and March 2011 in six different Faculties in these three countries. The sample was 144 students in their first or second year at the university.The results showed that although 25.2% of them had consumed some kind of drugs, only 3.4% (all of them males) informed that they had used anabolic steroids sometime in the past, whereas 5.2% reported that they would intend to use them in the future. This confirms that anabolic steroids are still an important problem among adolescents and students at the sport faculties, but the governments should not focus only in this direction but also in the prevention of other type of drugs, which consumption rate is much higher. Educational programs should increase students´ knowledge about drugs, and they should come not only from the state, but also from coaches, teachers, trainers and parents.

Key words: Athletics, anabolic steroids, adolescents, boys and girls, Europe.