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What should drug policy reformers make of the apparently bottomless “scandal” swirling around drugs in sports? Can ideas like harm reduction and responsible use apply to sports, or is sports an exception, a different realm that needs different rules? The sports world has yet to learn that when you make substances illegal and drive them underground, you’re giving up just about all hope of “controlling” their use and of helping people who get overwhelmed.
It might also help to be honest about the fact that an atmosphere more conducive to performance-enhancing drugs than big-league baseball would be hard to create. You bring together 750 highly talented, very competitive people. You make the stakes enormous – money, acclaim, maybe even a run at immortality. Finally, you concoct a game where the difference between winning and losing is achingly small. How many games are decided by one play or at-bat? How many seasons come down to the last weekend?
It’s dismaying but not surprising that the orgy of public hand-wringing and wind-bagging over steroids in sports has produced nothing more than the same tired, discredited “solutions:” tougher penalties, more testing. We won’t even get into the fact that the case for keeping sports drug-free is not a slam dunk once you get past the mythology of the “values” and “ideals” that sports is supposed to embody. What’s an athletic supporter to do?
