Do you think the NCAA cares about its student-athletes? I do. While I give the governing body of intercollegiate athletics the benefit of the doubt that it does care, I think it is doing a woeful job educating student-athletes on the dangers of drugs.
Furthermore, I think drug use is rampant among college athletes! As reported in bamahammer.com.
Drug use has increased in the United States over the last few years among high school and college students. There is no denying that drug use is a problem on campuses in general. When we see an athlete suspended for a violation of team rules, it simply means that student athletes are tested for drugs while most students are never tested at all. The athletes are the ones in the public eye. No one sits in front of the TV on Saturday watching fraternity intramural football or dorm league soccer. We put our college athletes on pedestals.
I have worked at various levels for secular and faith-based addiction treatment and counseling programs. I am a counselor for both in-class and online drug classes and am heavily involved in the faith-based setting and I see people from almost every age group every week who struggle with this issue.
It is high time the NCAA took a progressive approach to really keep their athletes clean and sober.