Adderall serves as excuse in NFL

The National Football League is not allowed to make public details, when players violate anti-doping rules. It is only affirmed that certain individuals have tested positive for prohibited preparations. But the League must not report which substances have been administered by these sportspersons. Thus, some football players lie about drugs that have caused positives.
Why do several football players choose to lie about medications that have been used by them? Let try to understand.
A lot of football players that fail drug tests say that they have taken Adderall. Actually, they have used anabolic steroids. Why do they say that they have tested positive for Adderall? What does Adderall represent? This is a preparation which is indicated to treat attention-deficit disorder. But this preparation is administered not just for this clinical need. Athletes and bodybuilders administer this product for performance-enhancing effects.
When it comes to steroids, they are harshly demonized. Numerous reporters, experts, anti-doping officers and ordinary people affirm that these products are too dangerous. They may lead to various grave unwanted reactions. Anabolic steroids are demonized even for certain crimes. But when it comes to Adderall, this drug is not blamed in the society. Thus, numerous football players try to prevent criticism. They don’t desire to be demonized for administration of such forbidden medicines, as steroids. Since consumers of Adderall are not criticized harshly, football players claim that they have failed drug tests because they have used Adderall.
A football player compared this situation with following cases: those who are detained with cocaine tell others that they have taken marijuana because cocaine is more harshly demonized than the last one.
You should not think that every football player who says that he has tested positive for Adderall has really administered anabolic steroids. But it is possible to affirm that those that use Adderall are less demonized than those that apply steroids.