Steroids

Great article by Chuck Klosterman about steriods in sports--not about their prevalence, per se, but why some drugs in some sports matter and others don't.
He notes that much of the great music of the last 50 years would not or could not have been produced without heavy drug use: When The Beatles got high and made better music, they were juicers, so to speak.
Klosterman also offers a perceptive argument about why Congress investigates baseball's drug use while nobody seems to care about steroids in football (although I sure have read a lot of recent columns complaining about why no one else aside from the author cares...):

"This is why the relationship between drugs and football is different from the relationship between drugs and baseball: Baseball is mostly about tangible statistics, which drugs skew and invalidate; football is more about intangible masculine warfare, which drugs quietly enhance."

And:

"There comes a point in every normal person's life when they stop looking at athletes as models for living. Any thinking adult who follows pro sports understands that some people are corrupt and the games are just games and money drives everything. It would be strange if they did not realize these things. But what's equally strange is the way so many fans (and sportswriters, myself included) revert back to their 10-year-old selves whenever an issue like steroids shatters the surface."

Anyway, it's worth a read.