Talk:Cheaters Sometimes Prosper/@comment-G-unit-2006031493349

"We" are the people who pay these salaries with overpriced clothes, special radio, tv, and internet stations, and then further subsidize these games with at least three levels of tax dollars. I would like to see fans act first, but any government or conglomerate of governments in this country can regulate anything that it wants to really. The US government does not need rights to do anything. It can do anything that it wants, (be it officially or unofficially), so long as there is a strong enough economic or political impetus. My concern stems from the increased use of steroids and other substances among young american athletes. The strongest arguments for abortion in the 1960s-70s were the shady backroom medical procedures that women were "forced" to have. Well, complications from steroids are producing a comparable if not worse horror. Young athletes taking unregulated doses of these substances that they purchase from some shade in the gym locker room develop horrible compluications. Most of them are forced to push the substances themselves in order to fund their own use. After complications arise (sexual complications, growths of foreign tissue in muscles and various vital organs, etc.), these young people have nowhere to go. Parents are a scary place to turn (at least that is what we say when it comes to pregnant teens), healthcare providers will certainly not be happy to pay for complications of such use, and too much attention drawn to an individual with such problems may lead to legal trouble. On top of that, any legal investigation will only begin with the user, and that user may be in further danger of reprisal like anyone in any illicit drug trade. And this is all without getting into the long-term effects. You can&quot;t run away for a year and put your tumor up for adoption. Even though steroids have been around for a long time, exposing them as commonplace among professional athletes will only have the "everyone else is doing it" effect that young americans so love as a basis for engaging in activity. Awright01 will probably have more to post on this too.