Attitudes to steroids and Adderall

The National Football League is not permitted to make public details, when players fail drug tests. It is just claimed that certain individuals have tested positive for prohibited preparations. But the League must not disclose which substances have been administered by these athletes. Thus, some football players cheat about preparations that have resulted in positives.
Why do certain football players choose to cheat about substances that have been used by them? Let try to understand.
A lot of football players who fail drug tests say that they have administered Adderall. Actually, they have used anabolic steroids. Why do they affirm that they have tested positive for Adderall? What is Adderall? This is a medicine which is indicated to treat attention-deficit disorder. But this medicine is used not only for this therapeutic purpose. Sportspersons and bodybuilders take this preparation for athletic goals.
When it comes to anabolic steroids, they are harshly demonized. Many reporters, specialists, anti-doping officials and ordinary people affirm that these preparations are too dangerous. They may cause various grave side results. Anabolic steroids are blamed even for several crimes. But when it comes to Adderall, this medicine is not blamed in the society. Thus, numerous football players try to prevent criticism. They don’t want to be blamed for administration of such prohibited preparations, as anabolic steroids. Since consumers of Adderall are not criticized harshly, football players affirm that they have failed drug tests because they have administered Adderall.
A football player compared this situation with following cases: those who are detained with cocaine tell others that they have used marijuana because cocaine is more harshly demonized than the last one.
You should not think that every football player that says that he has tested positive for Adderall has actually applied steroids. But it is possible to conclude that those that use Adderall are less blamed than those that use steroids.