re: Why are steroids illegal?

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No, illegal = against the law. Can't take it even with a prescription. LSD is illegal. Cocaine is Illegal. Steroids and opiates are legal, they just require a prescription. Just like insulin.

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Cocaine is available in multiple prescriptions.

You can have LSD for research.

So it's not as cut and dry as you're saying. Most people consider a scheduled drug to be an illegal drug, because it's illegal to possess without special conditions.

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Cocaine is available in multiple prescriptions.

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Not really. There are some prescribed medicines that will cause you to test positive for cocaine. There is one form of cocaine (cocaine hydrochloride) used as a topical anesthetic, but there is no prescribed use for ingested cocaine, or any form of cocaine outside of cocaine hydrochloride. Any form of cocaine that is not formulated as a topical solution is in fact illegal in all circumstances, prescription or not.

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You can have LSD for research.

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I honestly don't know much about how research on illegal drugs is regulated. Doesn't change the fact the drug is illegal though, at least no to my knowledge.

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So it's not as cut and dry as you're saying. Most people consider a scheduled drug to be an illegal drug, because it's illegal to possess without special conditions.

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That's a really wide categorization. Schedule 1 drugs are definitely illegal. LSD. Ecstacy. Heroin.

Schedule 2? Those are iffy. Cocaine is illegal. It's only schedule 2 because of topical use. But adderall and ritalin? Those are prescription drugs that most people don't think of as being illegal even though they have the same schedule as narcotics.

Schedule 3? No, it takes a real stretch to consider those sorts of prescription drugs illegal. That's where steroids and painkillers with a tiny amount of codeine fit. The closest thing to a "street drug" in this schedule is probably Ketamine (special K). And to be honest Ketamine is only a schedule 3 because it gives you a high/hallucinations. It's not particularly addictive or even all that damaging to use which is why it's not a higher schedule. If it didn't give you a buzz it would be a schedule 4.

Beyond that there's no real question. You're talking about things like Valium, Xanax and cough syrups.

So no, being scheduled really isn't enough to consider something illegal. Schedule 1 definitely is though. Some schedule 2's as well. Nothing schedule 3 or lower.

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wish they were legal just to see what professional sports morphs into.

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NFL: *no change*

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They're all illegal if you don't have an exception.

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As is insulin. Nearly every medicine ever made requires a prescription.

Another way to think of it is that they're completely legal when you have a prescription. Steroids are in that category. Heroin is not.

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Steroids are in that category. Heroin is not.

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Illegal unless you have an exception? Agreed! Or, for shorthand, "illegal drugs"

Fun fact: you can actually get heroin in the hospital. That would be an exception.

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The same reason a lot of drugs are illegal. They hurt the user. They can kill the user. They increase the odds that the user will hurt others.. The term roid rage exists for a reason.

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Pretty much all this thread needs to be.

Long term they wilk destroy your body

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This is a really stupid viewpoint. I'm not sure why you're hammering it.

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Because when people say a drug is "illegal" there are almost always exemptions. We know that an "illegal" drug is one that is federally scheduled

If your argument is that no drug is illegal that would at least be a consistent point, but it seems you weren't aware a lot of drugs you consider to be "legal" are also available via prescription and most people would call them "illegal drugs"

If someone says cocaine is an illegal drug you wouldn't bat an eye, but it's also available via prescription. In other words, you know exactly what is meant by "illegal drug"

for the answer why its illegal...because our esteemed president and senator hatch in the early 90s freaked the frick out after ben johnson wiped the floor with the field and then tested positive

they were not banned to protect the user and in fact the FDA and medical associations fought against them being scheduled as they did not meet the criteria

but they were made illegal because Biden and Hatch in all their wisdom, decided it would clean up sports....it didnt and actually made things more underground to where you are always fighting new drugs coming out that can by pass testing.

and roid rage isnt real...go read the medical literature. stop just repeating myths.

now many steroids where never approved for human use and have limited trials, atleast in this country. example tren was produced in france as human grade but never produced in the USA. Equipose is considered a veterinarian drug in the USA and mexico but was produced as a human grade product in other countries

in the end steroids are illegal not to protect the end user...how fricking naïve do you have to be to believe that. If that was the case we wouldnt allow many of the plastic surgeries we do. It was made illegal because as usual the government felt like they must "do something" even if its not the right thing. and because the government only knows one thing....grandstanding to get reelected.

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If that were the reason, then alcohol would also be illegal. They are illegal because they can be easily synthesized in a homemade lab and made untaxable. Uncle Sam wants his money.

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You think steroids are easily made at home but alcohol isn’t?