NFL players admit to using Adderall

The National Football League is not allowed to make public details, when players violate anti-doping rules. It is just affirmed that certain persons have violated anti-doping program. But the League must not report which substances have been administered by these athletes. So, several football players cheat about preparations that have led to positives.
Why do certain football players choose to cheat about medications that have been administered by them? Let try to understand.
A lot of football players that fail drug tests claim that they have used Adderall. In fact, they have applied steroids. Why do they say that they have tested positive for Adderall? What is Adderall? This is a medication that is administered for treatment of attention-deficit disorder. But this medicine is used not just for this medical need. Sportspersons and bodybuilders administer this product for performance-enhancing effects.
When it comes to steroids, they are harshly demonized. Many journalists, experts, anti-doping officers and ordinary individuals say that these medications are very dangerous. They may cause various grave undesirable consequences. Steroids are demonized even for several crimes. But when it comes to Adderall, this preparation is not blamed in the society. So, a lot of football players try to avoid criticism. They don’t want to be demonized for intake of such banned medications, as steroids. Since consumers of Adderall are not criticized harshly, football players say that they have failed drug tests because they have applied Adderall.
A football player compared this situation with following cases: those who are busted with cocaine tell others that they have used marijuana because cocaine is more harshly blamed than the last one.
You should not suggest that each football player that says that he has tested positive for Adderall has really used anabolic steroids. But it is possible to affirm that those that apply Adderall are less demonized than those who administer anabolic steroids.