If you’re like me, you’ve spent the last couple of months following the news on steroids in sports with the hope that some truth – any truth – would emerge from the midst of the media hype and sensationalism.
While the issue of steroids in sport has been brewing since the early 1980’s, and while the Congressional Hearings in 1987 on Medical Devices and Drug Issues on April 8 and May 4, 1987 sought to address the issue of drugs in sport, nothing of substance followed from these hearings and steroids are today as much a part of organized sports as they’ve always been.
The Current Scandals . . .
The current sensationalism on steroids in sport began with two major events:
1. The publication of Jose Canseco’s book “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big.”
2. The now infamous BALCO scandal.