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Steroids have been used by professional athletes to up their game for decades. Whether they're competing in boxing, football, basketball, or even sports entertainment organizations such as the WWE and TNA, steroids have played a prominent role in all forms of athletics. But whichever sport these athletes might belong to, many have undoubtedly played with the idea of using these peformance-enhancing drugs. But what is the cost of such a drug?

One problem an athlete using steroids will have to face, almost inevitably, is disgrace. Athletes of all fields of athleticism have been caught using steroids, and therefore made a center of media attention, while also risking their career and health. Just recently in the WWE, one of the sports entertainment empire's greatest assets, Jeff Hardy, was suspended for disobedience of the WWE's Drug and Welfare Policy. It hasn't been released if it was steroids or some other drug (meth, some might think, in connection to the fact his house burned down only days after his suspension; there are rumors that he had a meth lab), but either way, he risked his career and all the upcoming opportunities just for the sake of increasing his performance.

I can understand the pressure an athlete must face. WWE superstars, above all, are pressured on more than any others. They compete almost each and every night, performing dangerous stunts, often resulting in minor-though still painful-injuries that they must suffer through. It's understandable that one might succumb to the tempation of steroids, but in the end, it is simply not worth it.

It has been seen before how these drugs can have an impact on the lives of not only the ones initialy using them, but the people around them. In most recent memory, we'd have to look to the Chris Benoit incident. Chris Benoit, one of the greatets legends of WWE history, allegedly, due to a combination of steroid-induced rage and lingering grief from his recently deceased best friend (Eddie Guerrero), killed his wife and son before taking his own life. Not only were three lives lost because of the use of steroids, but all the family members who had been close to the Benoits, and the millions of WWE fans had to grieve-and still do to this day-for their fallen idol.

Last year, not long after the Benoit case and the WWE's reaction, in which they began pressing much more heavily upon their Drug and Welfare Policy, a major steroid ring was unveiled, leading to the suspension of over a dozen professional wrestlers,

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