Hegstrand’s death and drugs

The professional wrestling tag team the Road Warriors 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. The death of this wrestler came suddenly because of a heart attack. This person died when he was just 46. It is known that popular media usually writes about deaths of professional wrestlers, linking the cases with use of anabolic steroids. The death of Hegstrand was not an exception. After the death of this wrestler many articles appeared in newspapers that blamed anabolic steroids for this case.
Joe “Animal” Laurinaitis admitted to administration of steroids by this wrestling team. But he confirmed 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 noted that such drugs, as cocaine and Xanax had to be blamed for such cases. Joe Laurinaitis said that he desired to explain that steroids had not been linked with death of Hegstrand.
Joe Laurinaitis noted that cocaine and Xanax had led to Hegstrand’s death. He also noticed that these drugs caused deaths of such persons, as Henning, Rick Rude and Davey Boy Smith. According to Laurinaitis, administration of cocaine frequently leads to usage of morphine. These drugs destroy health completely and lead to heart attacks.
Why must affirmation of Laurinaitis be true? He was in Australia with Hegstrand. He knows about what he tells. Lately Laurinaitis collaborated with Andrew William Wright to say about his experiences with “Hawk”.