With the problems of drug abuse and academic integrity in collegiate athletics in the 1980s, something needed to be done to address these issues. The problem was that these issues were hidden and ignored by American society. The death of Len Bias exposed these issues. In this essay I will investigate the extent to which the death of Len Bias affected the problems of drug abuse and the lack of academic integrity in college athletics. This extended essay demonstrates that the death of Len Bias revealed two systemic problems: drug abuse and the lack of academic integrity in college athletics. This information was found by examining the laws that Congress enacted after Bias’s death and the subsequent decrease of drug abuse in the United
