Laurinaitis was together with Hegstrand in Australia: he knows the situation better

The professional wrestling tag team the Road Warriors were first who introduced bodybuilding-type muscularity in this sport. Hawk (Mike Hegstrand) and Animal (Joe Laurinaitis) have been comprised this tag team. Hegstrand died in 2003. The death of this person was sudden because of a heart attack. Mike Hegstrand died when he was just 46. As it is known, popular media usually writes about deaths of professional wrestlers, connecting the cases with use of anabolic steroids. The death of Hegstrand was not an exception. After the death of this person a lot of articles appeared in newspapers that demonized anabolic steroids for this case.
Joe “Animal” Laurinaitis admitted to intake of steroids by this professional wrestling team. But he claimed that these products hadn’t lead to Hegstrand’s death. He added that other factors 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. Laurinaitis announced that he desired to explain that steroids had not been connected with Hegstrand’s death.
Joe Laurinaitis noted that cocaine and Xanax had caused the death of this professional wrestler. He also noted that these drugs led to deaths of such people, as Henning, Rick Rude and Davey Boy Smith. According to Laurinaitis, intake of cocaine frequently leads to administration of morphine. These drugs destruct health wholly and lead to heart attacks.
Why must affirmation of Laurinaitis be true? He was in Australia with Hegstrand. He knows about what he talks. Lately this person collaborated with Andrew William Wright to talk about his experiences with “Hawk”.