Blurb: Jennifer Devine is a two-time Olympic rower and University of Washington graduate. She recently moved from Seattle to Massachusetts to begin a residency for rehabilitation medicine at Harvard.

"I have ethical problems with it as a doctor. I can't see where someone would provide a drug or medication to someone for a problem that doesn't exist. Athletes who are using steroids are seeking to disrupt their natural equilibrium. That's like somebody coming to my office with no pain, and me prescribing opiates because they asked for them, because they said it would enhance their life.

"It makes me sad. It's very misguided. My feelings are obviously influenced by my job, but they're also influenced by my philosophy of what role sports should play in society. We give too much emphasis to excellence in sports. There are a lot of people who watch sports, and, unfortunately, not enough who do them. Maybe that's why we're so obese.

"You have to say, as a doctor, can we just not waste time trying to make muscles stronger? Can we fix things like global poverty and disease? Can we cure AIDS? Or how about: Can we do anything more productive than making a muscle 0.03 times stronger than it was before?

"I'm not so much angry as I just don't understand it. I always viewed athletics as something I wanted to do very well for a short period of time. An expression of myself. A lifestyle. But to use my body in a very destructive way, it's like saying I don't have very much respect for it.

"People say that it's going to happen regardless. So we may as well make it legal. Like drugs. It's just sad that there are people out there who feel that life isn't good enough as is. Maybe we need to think about the role sports play in society if we want to understand why people use steroids."