Performance enhancing drugs in sport - who uses and who doesn't?

Who uses Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) in professional sports? Anyone who can get away with it, that's who.

There is too much money on the line for athletes NOT to be using PEDs. Gone are the days of Mickey Mantle making $40k per year. A-Rod is making around $25M per year.

From the advantages of recovery, to increased power, to leaner body mass and increased endurance, how can you blame the athletes for taking the drugs and getting all the money?

The concern lies with:

1. creating an uneven playing field
   
2. decreased life span (25 year olds dying of heart attacks)
3. decreased health (kidney failure)
4. decreased morality (don't use drugs say the star athletes, yet many are using themselves)
   
5. distorted body image concerns (an 18 year old boy spends hours in the gym lifting weights with minimal gain, yet his friends on juice spend less time and get better gains)

If you look at athletes from the pre-1970's era, they weren't behemoths, yet they competed at the highest levels. Sure training has come light years from the 1970's, but do they atheletes need the additional boost of PEDs?

What would you tell your young athlete to do? What would you do?