CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) U-N-C Chapel Hill will place its athletes on probation if they are caught using anabolic steroids and could be banned from athletics.<br>
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The school also strengthened its overall substance abuse policy for student-athletes.<br>
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Both changes take effect Monday and follow a nine-month review of the policy, which was last revised in 1997.<br>
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Athletics director Dick Baddour says the school also bolstered its testing, education, counseling and disciplinary sanctions for the use of other banned substances.<br>
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As part of the changes, North Carolina will administer more tests on a random basis throughout the year than it has under the previous policy.<br>
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