Fri 30 Mar 2007
Steroids Or Drugs… What’s Worse
Posted by Brad under Life
I’ve touched on this subject a little bit before but it still seems that everyone is making such a HUGE deal with steroids in sports…
What I really don’t get is this… why aren’t people focusing on the other illegal drugs that some of these players use.
Why is the steroid thing so big?
I think that if I have a kid and he looks up to a certain player… I’d rather that player be on ‘roids than smoking dope all of the time (or doing ecstasy).
Isn’t the drug problem among the youth a much, much larger problem than the steroid problem?
Granted, these things didn’t get as much press back when I was younger but I never had anyone come up to me and say, “Hey Brad, you need to try these pills… they’ll make you strong!”
Are we sending the wrong message when a person in baseball gets caught with steroids and is hit with a 50 game suspension but they can’t get in any trouble for smoking weed…
Am I wrong or are they both illegal?
Don’t get me wrong here… I’m not advocating steroids by any means. But, I can attest that I’ve never really seen a huge amount of steroid type issues in the whole time I’ve been in the health and fitness industry.
If someone is going to pull a 50 game suspension for steroids, they should pull a 50 game suspension for any drug use… period.
What do you think?
May 19th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Both can lead to serious abuse. In that way, none are the worse, they are both bad. However, steroids can be harnessed from the body itself. it is just a matter of technique and knowing what to do, and what not. Artificial steroids will never teach that. So my vote goes to - which is worse? Synthetic Steroids.