February 26th, 2008
Drug Detox Could Help Clean Up Pro Sports Steroid Abuse
Barry Bonds, the San Francisco Giants’ love-him-or-hate-him home-run king, connected with home run number 756 against the Washington Nationals this week, surpassing Hank Aaron’s legendary 755 and securing a historic niche in baseball’s record books for lifetime home runs. But Bonds already holds a different niche in baseball history – or perhaps in the history of all athletics – as the most notorious alleged consumer of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports. Whether Bonds did or didn’t use the banned drugs is another story. But anabolic steroids are so commonly used by athletes that it’s only a matter of time before a star athlete decides to come clean and handle his drug abuse by checking into a facility for a thorough drug detox.