NFL players use Adderall

The National Football League is not allowed to make public details, when players violate anti-doping rules. It is just claimed that certain persons have been busted using forbidden medications. But the League must not reveal which substances have been applied by these sportspersons. Thus, several football players cheat about products that have led to positives.
Why do several football players choose to cheat about medicines which have been applied by them? Let try to understand.
Many football players that fail drug tests affirm that they have taken Adderall. In fact, they have taken anabolic steroids. Why do they affirm that they have tested positive for Adderall? What does Adderall represent? This is a medication which is used for treatment of attention-deficit disorder. But this medicine is applied not just for this clinical need. Sportspersons and bodybuilders apply this drug for performance-enhancing effects.
As for steroids, they are widely demonized. Many journalists, specialists, anti-doping officials and ordinary individuals claim that these medicines are too dangerous. They may lead to different grave side effects. Anabolic steroids are blamed even for several crimes. But as for Adderall, this product is not demonized in the society. So, many football players try to avoid criticism. They don’t want to be blamed for administration of such banned medicines, as anabolic steroids. Since consumers of Adderall are not criticized harshly, football players affirm that they have failed drug tests because they have applied Adderall.
A football player compared this situation with following cases: those that are caught with cocaine tell others that they have applied marijuana because cocaine is more harshly demonized than the last one.
You should not believe that each football player that says that he has tested positive for Adderall has actually taken steroids. But it is possible to conclude that those that administer Adderall are less blamed than those who apply steroids.