What are you talking about?
What Matt is talking about is this,
Every drug is different. I think for health-conscious people who can skirt addition - this being a VERY difficult thing for even people as disciplined as Jean-Claude Van Damme - opioids are probably the least toxic substance. Cocaine taken nasally probably wouldn't be nearly the issue it was if people could just keep it to once a week or once a month - aside from all the other impurities cut into cocaine as it passes hands down to the end user.
I could go on here - a friend of mine was "micro-dosing" MDMA by taking 1/3 of a normal sized serving, but doing it daily or every other day - as I understand it, that frequency of MDMA use would still disrupt neurological processes that should not be disrupted that frequently.
My point is, every drug is different, and things need to be considered that many ignore. For example "Oh, he didn't die because of alcohol, he died because he drove drunk."
Well yeah...but would he have been in the state of mind to drive drunk had it not been for the alcohol?
Another example is elderly people tripping and falling, and dying as a result, after taking oxycodone. You could argue that the oxycodone itself didn't kill the elderly person, but it sort of did.
How about car crashes as a result of smoking marijuana? I suspect that they are under-reported.
Does anyone aspirate their gear anymore? Are there many infections or deaths as a result of not doing so? I don't hear about too many of them.
In 2004, on the Bryant Gumbel HBO documentary on steroid use, John Romano asked [regarding steroid-related deaths] "Where are the bodies?"
Well...now in 2018, we can produce a list of bodies.
Drug use and abuse is a difficult thing. Like religion, it is one of the few views that I am not as sure about as I was when I was a naive 23-year-old libertarian.
I think having a dealer you can trust, following proper instructions regarding steroid use [or the use of any other drug], and listening to your own body are some of the most important things to consider.
Nasser El Sonbaty decided to stay over 300-lb for his entire life. It most likely was a key factor in preventing him from making it to his 50th birthday.
For myself, there are very few drugs that I intend to do - maybe a wimpy steroid cycle for my 40th birthday, just to do it while I am still young enough to respond well to the cycle. I will have a few drinks a year, some coffee, maybe a cigar or two or three each decade. The only drug that I don't find concerning, from a toxicity perspective, would be opiates. This really depends on whether or not a person has an addictive personality though. I don't - but anyone can be tempted.
Dallas McCarver should have probably never done his first steroid cycle. Antoine Vaillant should probably stop now. After all, he is only turning 31 this year. Why not put pro bodybuilding behind him, and live a quiet life in Quebec?