The answer is of course YES.  The police departments wolrdwide are working hard to stop crime and many times they fight for their life.  Why should they risk their lives without getting full abilities to fight back.  If police use anabolic steroids,they are not steroid abusers, they are just using anabolic steroids to stay healthy and fit, so they can catch the criminals.

In this particular case, a good veteran on the Florida police force has been forced to resign because of steroid use allegations.  Thus, the people of Florida lost a very important crime fighting figure because he used steroids to help him get in better shape and have better cardio.  In fact, this police investigation seemed to be focused on T3 (thyroid) medication as much as it was focused on anabolic steroids.

Florida times union reports:

A 20-year veteran of the Putnam County Sheriff's Office has resigned and is facing charges after an investigation into steroid use among some officers.

Two other longtime Sheriff's Office officials have been reprimanded in the investigation.

Detective William Prioletti, 41, resigned after an investigation concluded Friday. He has been charged with sale of a prescription drug.

According to the findings of an internal investigation, Prioletti bought the prescription medication Cynomel online and sold it to a lieutenant and a detective also with the Sheriff's Office.

Cynomel is the Mexican version of the thyroid medicine Cytomel.

Prioletti, the only one charged by the State Attorney's Office, was hired by the Sheriff's Office in April 1988 and became a detective in November 1994. He has been charged with sale of a prescription drug, which is a second-degree felony

Lt. Teresa Odom, 54, has been demoted to sergeant and detective Elton Miller, 37, has been suspended for three days. Both were placed on probation and will receive letters of reprimand, according to information from the Sheriff's Office.

Odom has been with the Sheriff's Office since 1988 and Miller has been with the agency since 1995.

The investigation began Sept. 25.

 The truth is after these steroid allegations, it's unlikely any NFL team will take him, so this book is his way out of the NFL for life.  Yea he's a steroid and drug junky but at least he's this much of a joke that he has to publish a book slamming anabolic steroids and not his misgivings about his talent.

QUESTION: What type of reaction have you gotten thus far about the book and its admissions?

ANSWER: In the interview with “Inside the NFL,” I was obviously candid about what I’ve done, mistakes I’ve made and how I’ve tried to fix those mistakes. After we did the interview, I was told that they had so much good content that they planned to break it into a two-part series. My concern was that they’d put all the sensationalistic parts in Part I, and the information about my recovery in Part II.

I expected negative reactions, but I got a lot of positive reaction for standing up and being honest.

I didn’t have any motive. I want to help others suffering through drug and alcohol addiction and provide a warning that no matter what level you’re at — Pop Warner, high school, college, NFL — no one is bulletproof. My motive is to help people who are hurting, and that comes out in the second show.

I have no intention to point the finger at anyone other than myself. This is not a Jose Canseco-style book.

Q: What’s the reaction from Michigan State, if any?

A: The personal contacts I’ve received have pleasantly surprised me. I heard from former MSU players and that made me feel good. I’m a huge Michigan State supporter. I love the school, the program, the coaching staff and I love George Perles. George taught me a lot of great life-lasting lessons.

Q : Have you spoken with George about the book?

A: I last talked to him two years ago when I was on campus and appeared with him on a pregame radio show. Before that, I hadn’t talked to him since I was a player. So that’s 30 minutes in the last 20 years.

Q: What was your experience while taking steroids?

A: They obviously work if you’re already athletic. Steroids make you stronger. I don’t think they make you more athletic if you aren’t already. As much as they have a strong physical effect, they have just as much psychologically. I remember I was taking steroids once for eight weeks and then I went off. On my first day off, I thought, “Oh my god, I’m already getting weaker, I’m already getting smaller.” That’s how much they can affect you psychologically.

Q: Did anyone at MSU know what you were doing?

A: There was a time when some trainers sat me down and asked me point-blank if I was using steroids. I denied it. They did their due diligence and they explained the consequences to me if I was using. I lied to them. But at no point did I talk to any coaches about it.

Q: How did you pass the drug tests, including the one before the 1988 Rose Bowl?

A: “It was easy. I cheated on one test, but in my five years at MSU, I was only tested five times. There was no test when we went to the Cherry Bowl. At the All-American Bowl, I got off the drugs and got clean before I went to Birmingham, Ala., and had to take the test. We didn’t go to a bowl in my junior year.

At the Rose Bowl, they tested us twice. Again, I got off drugs and went clean and passed the first test. Then there was a surprise test, and I knew I was (in trouble). I had to improvise. The story of what I did is amusing because it was so simple. I won’t tell you because it’s in the book.

Testing is more advanced today, but back then, it was Mickey Mouse.

Q: Once you left for the NFL, more focus was placed on MSU in terms of steroid use. Did a culture of steroid use exist in East Lansing?

A: It was a very awkward time. Even though I was in Green Bay by then, it was interesting that they went after me and MSU only. I personally knew players at Michigan and other Big Ten schools that were doing it. While I didn’t expect a Detroit paper to go to Madison, Wis., to investigate that program, I wondered why they only went after MSU.

Steroid Abuse in Baseball

Steroid abuse in baseball has started to seep into the public’s consciousness during the 1990s. The 1990s was the period when sluggers like David Wells, Jose Canseco, and Ken Caminiti revealed overwhelming statistics relating to steroid abuse in baseball.

Wells stated that 25-40 percent of Major League Baseball players abused steroids. Canseco, on the other hand, provided a much higher number – 85 percent of MLB players abused steroids, including himself, Canseco said.

But what surprised many was when Ken Caminiti publicly admitted that he was abusing steroids when he won the 1996 National League Most Valuable Player and he was on them too during the subsequent seasons.

Caminiti told a sport magazine in 2002 that his steroids abuse started when he used them to deal with a shoulder injury in the early part of 1996. Caminiti died of drug-induced heart attack (combination effects of cocaine and opiates) in 2004 at the age of 41.

Caminiti’s admission caused embarrassment to the pro baseball community – team owners, players, reporters, regulatory commissions – because it refused to acknowledge that steroid abuse was behind the explosive performances in the field. It was in the 1990s when home run records were easily eclipsed by Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire. Both Sosa’s and McGwire’s careers had been tainted with abuse of steroids and supplements.

But perhaps the most high profile baseball player implicated to steroid abuse was Barry Bonds. Bonds has been under speculation since he broke the major league’s home run records in both single season and career. His detractors claim that he could not have accomplished such records without the use of steroids and PEDs. Bonds was already 37 years old in 2001, the season when he beat McGwire’s record by hitting 73 home runs. When the BALCO steroid distribution activity was exposed in 2003, Bonds was one of baseball personalities who got embroiled in the scandal.

Steroid abuse in baseball and the BALCO incident

In 2002, the official federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative commenced. BALCO was started as a vitamin shop in 1994 in San Francisco by its founder Victor Conte.

In 2003, the investigation came into fruition and resulted to what many considered as the biggest steroid scandal in sports. Later dubbed as the BALCO Affair, the incident exposed well-known athletes in diverse sport fields who abused steroids and PEDs. Among these athletes were MLB players and most prominent of them was Barry Bonds.

In 2006, a congressional inquiry was conducted in which several baseball players, including Mark McGwire and Roger Clemens, were asked to testify regarding steroid abuse in baseball.

MLB implements stiffer penalties to stop steroid abuse

Subsequent to the embarrassing BALCO Affair, the Major League Baseball started imposing heavier penalties to players who violate anti-steroid policies.

In November 2005, MLB owners and players gave the green light for the adoption of the following rules to discourage steroid abuse: a first positive test would result in a 50-game suspension, a second positive test would result in a 100-game suspension, and a third positive test would result in a lifetime suspension from the Major League.

Why baseball players abuse steroids

When Caminiti confessed his steroid abuse in 2002, he said the illegal practice had improved his performance considerably.

In September last year, Roger Tobin, a physics professor at Tufts University put forth striking findings about how steroid use could lead to performance enhancement in baseball. He said steroid use that yields 10 percent of muscle mass could translate to a 4 percent increase in bat speed, a 3 percent increase in ball speed off the bat, and a home run production of 50-100 percent.

Although some have criticized Tobin’s research, which used physics modeling to arrive at such findings, there is no doubt that the possibility of hitting more home runs is encouragement enough to some baseball players to abuse steroids.

Types of Steroids used in Baseball

Steroids are not the only drugs used in baseball.  Besides steroids abuse, most baseball players are using a huge amount of human growth hormone (HGH) and IGF-1, both equivalent or better then anabolic steroids.  When these baseball players buy steroids, they are also buying human growth hormone along with the anabolics.  This is a common steroid cycle, HGH and winstrol or anavar.