Administration of steroids by college athletes

A few college sportspersons are caught applying prohibited substances. Does it mean that they don’t dope? Less than 1% of college football players have been caught violating anti-doping policies. They have tested positive for steroids and/or other doping products. Such situation must convince anti-doping agencies that they win in the war on doping. But certain suspicions arise. It is believed that numerous college football players take steroids and/or other related medications but they avoid detection successfully.
Why do such suspicions appear? Changes in physique of college football players lead to controversial opinions. So, changes in body mass of over 61,000 college football players were recently analyzed by the Associated Press. Results showed that a lot of college football players enhanced their body weight in short period of time essentially. Over 20 pounds were gained by more than 4,500 college football players during a year. Moreover, near 100 individuals enhanced the body weight by over 80 pounds during a year. As you see, the gains were obvious.
Some specialists claim that these aspects should not trouble anti-doping officers. They affirm that anti-doping officials shouldn’t subject college football players to drug tests just because they have enhanced body weight significantly.
But other experts have another opinion. However they agree that it is impossible to assure that several football players have used steroids and/or other related medicines, basing just on changes in body weight, they notice that the changes may be a factor that leads to suspicions linked with steroid use. Thus, such individuals that have enhanced body mass in short period of time should be subjected to drug testing.
Some college football players that enhanced body weight obviously in short period of time were asked about their changes. The football players claimed that they had never applied any forbidden preparations. They affirmed that they reached such dramatic changes naturally. The college athletes noted that they had consumed much food for this purpose. Thus, they assured that such evident results were reached by them with the help of appropriate nutrition. According to them, it was not difficult to gain many pounds in short period of time.