The National Football League and Drug Abuse It’s nothing new for the National Football League’s players to be abusing anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Drug abuse in the league has recently focused around recreational drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol. The newest drug being abused is painkillers. The commissioner and his personal need to change their policies. Will they wait until many more players start to die before they tighten …showed first 75 words of 2787 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2787 total…Many of the younger athletes that will become professionals in the future are already abusing and possessing drugs. This can be linked to today’s idols using drugs. If the league changes their policy soon, they can prevent this drug outbreak from continuing to get worse. The NFL help solve all these problems by having more random drug tests given, enforcing stricter, and requiring every team to educate its players on all kinds of drugs.