Usage of steroids by college athletes

A few college athletes are caught applying banned drugs. Does it mean that they don’t dope? Less than 1% of college football players have been caught violating anti-doping rules. They have tested positive for anabolic steroids and/or other performance-enhancing drugs. Such situation must convince anti-doping agencies that they win in the war on doping. But some suspicions arise. It is believed that a lot of college football players administer anabolic steroids and/or other related medicines but they avoid detection successfully.
Why do such suspicions appear? Changes in appearance of college football players lead to controversial opinions. So, changes in body weight of more than 61,000 college football players were recently analyzed by the Associated Press. Results manifested that many college football players increased their body weight in short period of time evidentially. Over 20 pounds were acquired by over 4,500 college football players during a year. Furthermore, near 100 individuals increased the body weight by over 80 pounds during a year. As you see, the gains were essential.
Certain experts assure that these aspects should not trouble anti-doping agencies. They affirm that anti-doping officers shouldn’t subject college football players to drug tests just because they have increased body weight evidentially.
But other experts have another opinion. Although they agree that it is impossible to be sure that several football players have used steroids and/or other related preparations, basing just on changes in body weight, they notice that the changes may be a factor that leads to suspicions linked with steroid use. Thus, such persons that have increased body weight in short period of time should be subjected to steroid testing.
Several college athletes that increased body weight obviously in short period of time were asked about their changes. The football players affirmed that they had never administered any banned medicines. They assured that they achieved such amazing changes naturally. The college athletes noticed that they had consumed much food for this need. Thus, they claimed that such essential results were reached by them with the help of proper diets. According to them, it was not difficult to gain many pounds in short period of time.