NCAA drug testing

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The NCAA's drug testing program exists to "protect players who play by the rules by playing clean."^[1] The NCAA adopted its drug testing program in 1986, the year after the executive committee formed the Special NCAA Committee on Drug Testing.^[1] The drug test ranges from testing player-enhancement drugs to marijuana. A student failing a drug test loses one year of eligibility and is not allowed to compete in events for the first offense.^[2] However, not all students are tested because they are selected at random, but students are subject to be tested at any point in the year after the year-round testing program was adopted in 1990.^[3] Of the 400,000 athletes competing in the NCAA, around 11,000 drug tests were administered in 2008–09 when the last statistics were available.^[4] That number is expected to increase as drugs become more prevalent and easily accessible year by year.