American football is definitely part of the country’s passions and one of the most respected professional sports in the United States. Everyone seems to care and have an opinion about the NFL. Unfortunately there has been an ongoing issue that everyone just seems to ignore or has been neglected on purpose by the high NFL power for unknown reasons, even though the NFL does catch a player their “drug testing program” from time to time, I can’t help to wonder how is it that an average NFL player weights over 300 pounds and can till run 40 yards in 4.4 seconds. Could it be their diet and training?
The Charlotte Observer came up with a story not long ago where they showed court and medical referring to repetitive steroid use by players from one NFL team, the Carolina Panthers. On this article, Dr. Gary Wadler, a well-known expert on performance enhancing drugs, was quoted on a revealing declaration:
“Several of them were using disturbing, particularly alarmingly high amounts with high dosages for long durations — some in combinations,”
As alarming as it sounds, apparently the same NFL players consider the Drug Testing Program to be some kind of a joke. As an example, two Carolina Panthers players pick up prescriptions of banned drugs only two days before the 2004 Super Bowl. The abuse of performance enhancers in professional sports is not being taken seriously, and I am not only referring to the NFL teams and management: did we all forget last year when one of the most impressive wrestlers killed his wife and child and subsequently killed himself after experiencing well known side effects of performance enhancement drug abuse?
The NFL is definitely not the only organization that should make some changes on drug use and abuse policies.
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