Steroids Question

I have heard bits and pieces recently about a boy who died due to taking steroids. The parents are obviously quite upset. Congress is asking questions about steroids.

I have been thinking about this and wondering who should take the blame for this death. Should it be the people who made the drug? Well I do not think so but I am not exactly sure. In order, to come to a conclusion I had to work thru a series of questions.

Why did the boy take the drug? What was happening in his mind that he felt as though he needed to push himself beyond his natural limits? We can not all be a super hero and we can only be what our genetics allows us to be. Why did he think who he was was not good enough?

Did the boy know it was bad for him? If he did not know then he would have been telling people in his life such as his parents that he was taking this great new stuff to make him stronger. Did any adult other than a parent such as a coach know he was taking this drug? If so this adult should be held partially responsible. However, I still believe that if the kid knew enough about the drug not to tell his parents then he should have know enough to not take it.

As I think about that I wonder if it is like having safe sex. Teenagers are horrible about not using a condom. They all think it will not happen to them. Why do they think that? I did not think that. Perhaps the question should be why didn't I think that? Pehaps I am the freak. NO COMMENTS PLEASE!

The thing is that we as a society always seem to want to blame someone else. It is sad to me that this boy died for such a meaningless reason but that does not change the fact that he took a drug that is known to do harm. Assuming the drug was not slipped to him w/o his knowledge he made a decision when he took that drug.

Were the shooters at Columbine responsible for their actions? If so what is the difference really?

Is this the fault of the soccor mom? How deeply embedded is the fear of not being good enough?