TheScholarOfBrew
Banned
I remember one time a higher-up in our department floated the idea of adding steroid detection to the K9 training program. The suggestion got completely laughed out of the room by the rest of the wing. Everyone agreed it was a waste of resources. And honestly, they weren’t wrong. Steroids just don’t fit the profile of what law enforcement prioritizes... there’s no violence or overdose epidemic tied to them, and they're not a frontline driver of crime.as someone who worked in customs in europe, i can confirm we only have trained police dogs which sniff cocaine, heroine, bombs etc) no steriod sniffing dogs will be trained in the next 50 years just no justifyable goverment spending for it.
Maybe one day that'll change, but I doubt it’ll be anytime soon. Steroids don’t cause the same level of societal harm as narcotics like heroin, meth, or fentanyl. The urgency just isn’t there from a policy or budget perspective.
What did leave a lasting impact on public perception, though, was the anti-drug education campaigns from the late '90s and early 2000s. I still remember the D.A.R.E. booths we’d see in schools. Steroids were always lumped in there with heroin and meth... neatly packaged next to bags of white powder and syringes, as if they were all the same thing. That kind of visual messaging stuck with people. It painted anabolic steroids as equally dangerous, even though the context and consequences are wildly different.
This kind of scare-tactic messaging was common across the U.S. between the late '90s and early 2000s. I remember it being especially heavy around 1999 through 2005.... that was peak hysteria around performance-enhancing drugs in general, fueled even more by scandals in sports.

