America is a country built on witchhunts. Its happened here since Puritan times and it will continue to happen.
That said, I've done a lot of reading recently about anabolics and legal implications---I think the real problem with them is the media. The media sensationalizes every time ARod farts, stinky or not. If he was injecting something to help make his farts bigger, the fucking new would be all over it. Combine that with some of the stories--like the parents who will not accept the possibility that their kid who was juicing to play baseball may have been fucked up in the first place and MAY have tried to kill himself no matter what he was taking and combine an overpaid group of congressmen who don't know their asses from their bellybuttons but who feel the need to tell every last one of us what we are to do and how to do it and you've got what you are seeing now days.
Its also become a multibillion dollar industry worldwide. That also drives the media and the bullshit they spout because the media by its very nature wants a piece of the pie. it doesn't matter if they are reporting accurate facts or not as long as the story sells. Most of the stories are based on conjecture anyway, so that just makes their job that much easier.
Finally, you have to consider the fact that there may actually be long term health effects--we simply don't know. Unfortunately steroids were made taboo before legitimate research could be conducted on what may or may not happen, and unfortunately, even in the scientific community, the stereotypes carry over. You should have seen the look on the face of the medicine specialist when I suggested winstrol and equipoise for a horse (one of my wifes thoroughbreds) in renal failure who wasn't eating a few years back. It doesnt matter her appetite picked up immediately and she improved drammatically after the drugs were administered, it doesn't matter that they are administered at a label dose for an indicated problem from the label, it was the evil steroids who killed her, not the kidneys that were failing long before those drugs were ever considered. This kind of medical stupidity permeates both veterinary and human medicine.
There are alot of people on forums like this one who are injecting a whole lot of shit into their bodies. Some of it is legitimate, some of it who knows what it is because the sources are out to make a buck. You have to face reality, anabolic steroids are illegal in the US without a prescription. Doctors are reluctant to prescribe them because of the bullshit they have to deal with with them. If you are looking at an underground source, you are looking at one thing---a person who is out to make a buck off you. Why would they maintain pharmaceutical grade sterility in making the product? Its going to cost them more and cut into their profits. Those suppliers aren't concerned about serving a consumer, they are concerned about $$$$$. Its going to be interesting in 15-20 years when the long term effects of injecting "underground" steroids are going to start surfacing.
Sorry for the rant.
