Anabolic steroids shouldn’t be blamed for Hegstrand’s death

The Road Warriors, a professional wrestling tag team, were first who introduced bodybuilding-type muscularity in this sport. This tag team was composed of Hawk (Mike Hegstrand) and Animal (Joe Laurinaitis). Hegstrand died in 2003. His death came suddenly because of a heart attack. Mike Hegstrand died at the age of 46. It is known that popular media usually writes about deaths of professional wrestlers, connecting the cases with intake of anabolic steroids. The death of Hegstrand was not an exception. After the death of this person a lot of articles appeared in newspapers which blamed anabolic steroids for this case.
Joe “Animal” Laurinaitis admitted to usage of steroids by this wrestling team. But he pointed out that these medications hadn’t caused Hegstrand’s death. He added that other aspects were responsible for Hegstrand’s death as well as deaths of other wrestlers. Joe Laurinaitis pointed out that such drugs, as cocaine and Xanax had to be blamed for such cases. Laurinaitis said that he wanted to explain that steroids had not been linked with Hegstrand’s death.
Joe Laurinaitis said that cocaine and Xanax had contributed in the death of this professional wrestler. He also said that these drugs led to deaths of such persons, as Henning, Rick Rude and Davey Boy Smith. According to Laurinaitis, usage of cocaine often leads to intake of morphine. These drugs corrupt health totally and lead to heart attacks.
Why must affirmation of Laurinaitis be true? He was in Australia with Hegstrand. He knows about what he tells. Recently this wrestler collaborated with Andrew William Wright to tell his experiences with “Hawk”.