Pro:
Norman Fost, MD, MPH, Professor and Director of the Medical Ethics Program at the University of Wisconsin
- He said there are worse and more dangerous things than playing sports. He also said if they restrict and even criminalize behaviors just because they have health risks. And steroids are so low on the list of drugs or diets that cause serious harm I don’t understand why we would start there.
- She states that when athletes are at the highest level all they care about is winning. "I don't blame the athletes like Marion Jones for juicing their performance with a little extra oomph. She's caught up in her sport; she needs that little somethin' somethin' to maintain her edge. Everyone else is doing it. If you shot me up with whatever she had, I wouldn't be the fastest woman alive. It was still her out there on that track. " She also states that if athletes are willing to risk thee health let them do it.
Athletes Against Steroids, an outreach and educational organization dedicated to eradicating steroids in sports, wrote the following information on its website
- Young athletes everywhere are turning to performance enhancement drugs – playing steroid roulette with their lives in hopes of making it into the 'big leagues.' They’re falling for the big lie that these drugs are safe and okay to use. steroids are KILLERS…DESTROYERS…LIFE WRECKERS!...[S]ome people contend that there is very little evidence that steroids actually cause death
