Steroids: Death Mr. Don Foster To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of fatalities caused by the abuse of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in each of the last 10 years. Dawn Primarolo There have been two deaths in England between 1997 and 2006 in which anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs were implicated or may have played a contributory part. Source: Statistics from The National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths