Although there's been some scaremongering, research has linked steroid use by athletes to liver, cardiac, musculoskeletal, and reproductive system damage, as well as psychiatric effects. When I asked Linda McMahon about the issue, however, she said she shared her husband's doubts. "There's some evidence sometimes of muscle disease, or cardiac disease, but it's really hard to know because you didn't know the condition of the performer's heart, or whatever, prior to," she told me. "So I still don't think we know the long-term effects of steroids. They are continuing to study it more and more, but I don't believe there are a lot of studies out there today that are conclusive.
From Andrew Rice's Bloomberg Businessweek feature - http://www.businessweek.com/...
My bolding for emphasis
This sure doesn't seem to jibe with her official campaign response when they were contacted by Ted Mann at theday.com (for his article click here) to "clarify" her quote spokesman Ed Patru stated
"Linda clearly is opposed to illegal drug use. She believes steroid use can have long-term negative physical and psychiatric impact on the body, and those negative impacts obviously are exacerbated with abuse. Furthermore, she supports continuing research on the issue so that the public can better understand the full scope of impact long-term use has on the body. As for the WWE, it has a very clearly defined policy on all illegal drugs, which I'm sure you've read."
This coming from the owner of a company who was once prosecuted, albeit unsuccessfully, for distributing steroids to its wrestlers. There is very shady accusations around this issue as well as some believe (but cannot prove)that wwe tipped off their doctor to destroy his files a day before they would have been subpoenas/collected by the Government for their case.
Her husband Vince has admitted to using steroids in the past when they weren't illegal. Her son-in-law wrestler Triple H has never reportedly failed a drug test, but is built a helluva lot bigger than those who have failed steroid testing. Given that the wwe has to be contacted in advance to set up testing (because a room would need to be made available at the arena, security passes etc), it would be easy for the chosen ones in the wwe to have a heads up.
Then there is the laundry list of deaths from folks 45 and under who worked once in the wwe, many attributed to steroid usage.
h/t to The Huffington Post for bringing this story to a bigger audience. Their article is available here - Click Me