Yes it is a serious issue. When pro athelets use steroids to enhance their performance, athletes coming up through the ranks are encouraged to use them as well to remain competitive. In addition, young athletes admire the pros and thus use steroids to be "cool." Steroid users make poor role models.
The tragic end result is that steroid use can be fatal!
I admire Senator John McCain and his "Clean Sports Act" and his fight on steroids.
http://www.friendsofmccain.com
Thank you,
Scott
More professional, college, and high school athletes abuse alcohol than abuse steroids. For the US CONGRESS to focus on this one issue is an enormous waste of money and time that could be devoted to more pressing issues.
The only reason these jackasses are focusing on steroid use in sports is that it's an easy target. It's a helluva lot easier to "clean-up" baseball than it is to clean-up the mess they've made with illegal immigration, abortion, and every other real issue in America.
Briefly, I can probably best be described as a moderate conservative
My friend, you're a frickin' RINO....
It's a serious issue, but wouldn't the proper course of action be to send the pro athletes to jail and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law? Why should Congress get involved in it at all? It's illegal steroid use, right?