Steroids aren't going anywhere in America. Not even a top 25 priority for our politics. It's a commodity that is enjoyed by 90% middle class white suburbia.
As long as the soccer moms can keep getting their semaglutide and the influencers aren't getting laced with fen, not a single thing will change other than slightly more shipping costs.
Everyone likes to think that they're Pablo Escobar but you're ordering testosterone and peptides. Marijuana still has a higher drug scheduling than anabolics. It's not that deep.
To be clear, the crackdown is China is a seperate issue from de minimus reform in the US. Regardless of what China does de minimus is the bigger problem.
It's not about availability, heroin is "available". It's ease of availability. Literally straight from China to your house. There was a time, not long ago, when that wasn't feasible for a variety of reasons, and it isn't in many countries today. "No ship" and "No-reship" policies for specific countries exist for a reason.
If that method of getting them, no harder than ordering from Amazon, is closed off, they'll be more expensive, with less choice, worse quality, and more disruptions.
It's not about steroids, it's about all the other problems around revenue from untaxed goods, fentanyl, machine gun parts, even textiles that are made with slave labor and banned slipping in via the same method. To stop the others, you end up stopping the primary way steroids are funneled into the US.
Gear will go back to being brought in the old fashioned drug smuggling way, but you're not going to see $4 vials of test once that happens.