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In February 2004, Major League Baseball announced a new drug policy which originally included random, offseason testing and 10-day suspensions for first-time offenders, 30 days for second-time offenders, 60 days for third-time offenders, and one year for fourth-time offenders, all without pay, in an effort to curtail performance-enhancing drug use (PED) in professional baseball.
Major league baseball had established a anti-drug policy program to prevent any sort substances banned by the league. The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball states that using these banned substances puts players health at risk and also puts players at an unfair advantage. The MLB has created many jointed sub programs listed below. [37]
Major League Baseball's drug policy prohibits players from using, possessing, selling, facilitating the sale of, distributing, or facilitating the distribution of any Drug of Abuse and/or Steroid. Any and all drugs or substances listed under Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act are considered drugs of abuse covered by the Program.
Major League Baseball's drug policy—the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program—was established by agreement between the MLB Players Association and the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball.
Prior to the scandal, Major League Baseball had no established policy against steroids. As a result of the BALCO bust, commissioner Bud Selig instituted a written, league-wide policy. The first time a player fails a test for steroids, he is subject to a 81-game (about 1/2 of a regular season) suspension.
Doping, or the use of restricted performance-enhancing drugs in the United States occurs in different sports, most notably in the sports of baseball and football.. As of a 2024 study, 2.2% of U.S. athletes have self-reported to using anabolic steroids, peptide hormones, or blood manipulation.
In 2003, Greg Anderson of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), Barry Bonds's trainer since 2000, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and charged with supplying anabolic steroids to athletes, including a number of baseball players.
Major League Baseball did not test its players for steroids until 2005, although minor league players were tested earlier, and MLB had been testing for other drugs. Many of the suspensions on this list came from the cocaine scandal that swept baseball during the 1980s, making some suspensions not steroid-related at all.