The disturbing thing is he may have been injecting them into his son, Daniel which if true is deplorable.
As I understand it, the reason his son was apparently taking steroids is that he was prescribed them for being undersized, which (if true) is, to me at least, not deplorable at all (if perhaps a little stupid: steroids are a very dangerous thing, and getting your son a prescription because he's short seems unnecessary to me).
It wasn't/wouldn't have been because he was "short," but because of a growth deficiency. Working at College Pharmacy, we specialized in hormone replacement therapy, including human growth hormones. It isn't such a strange thing as you may think.
Also, allergy medications can be steroids (think Flonase). Painkillers can be steroids. Menopause hormone replacements are steroids. In small amounts steroids are very different from what you typically assume.
steroids are actually very commonly prescribed to help people get over injuries. it's not the drug itself, it's how the drug is used or more frequently abused, that's the problem. something most people forget.
