Australian customs released steroid seizure statistics.

Enforcement authorities believe the high Australian dollar and strong economy have made Australia a target market for drug exporters. The rate of seizure of so-called "performance and image enhancing drugs" - which include anabolic steroids and peptides, which are playing a central role in the drugs in sport scandal - was up 57 per cent in a year. Users of steroids, hormones and peptides – a category known as PIEDS – have virtually "direct and unlimited access" to a full range of products from around the world via online sales, the report found, with more than 91 per cent of detections in this category coming from parcel post. The number of detections of performance enhancing drugs at Australia's border has increased from just more than 1000 in 2002-03 to nearly 9000 in 2011-12. Mr Clare said the rapidly expanding market for PIEDS was evidence the drugs in sport investigation was not an overreaction, as some have claimed. "When the [drugs in sport] report was released earlier this year we made the point that there had been something like a 200 per cent increase in the importation of some performance and image enhancing drugs," he said. "Interestingly, in the last few months we have seen a drop in importations, which shows the impact of the release of that report only a few months ago."