Members of the general public and doping officials are raising their deep concerns over the growing demand and popularity of steroids. The concerns are more since the government has already said that it has tried its level best to enforce tight control on the manufacture and distribution of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. However, the truth is that steroid usage has increased and not decreased in the last few years.

The biggest reason for increasing demand of steroids is celebrity driven image culture.

The fact that news about sportsmen and other celebrities using anabolic steroids to maintain their “invincible edge” is influencing their followers to follow the same short route to success is a matter of great concern. With big names such as Sylvester Stallone remarking that he is an old man jumping around trying to look young and getting busted with 48 vials of human growth hormone Jintropin at the Sydney Airport, things cannot be expected to slow down for the better.

From Timesunion.com:

The names of R&B music star Mary J. Blige, along with rap artists 50 Cent, Timbaland and Wyclef Jean, and award-winning author and producer Tyler Perry, have emerged in an Albany-based investigation of steroids trafficking that has already rocked the professional sports world, according to confidential sources.

Information has surfaced recently showing those stars are among tens of thousands of people who may have used or received prescribed shipments of steroids and injectable human growth hormone in recent years. Law enforcement officials have said they have no evidence in their sprawling multistate probe that customers, including Blige or other entertainers, violated any laws. Instead, they are targeting anti-aging clinics, doctors and pharmacists who prescribed the drugs.

Still, medical experts say that use of steroids and human growth hormone — an estimated $10 billion-a-year operation worldwide — reaching into the entertainment industry illustrates how pervasive steroids use in the United States has become. It is not unique to athletics, where performance-enhancing drug use has marred many sports. For many celebrities, the lure of hormonal drugs is their supposed, unproven anti-aging effects.

It is widely regarded now that the dirt created from use of steroids will not be cleared unless and until stringent measures to inhibit use of steroids are formulated and deployed. Till that happens, things such as distribution of anabolic steroids will continue despite all odds.

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