Hegstrand used some other drugs in addition to anabolic steroids

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 person was sudden because of a heart attack. This wrestler died when he was just 46. It is known that popular media usually writes about deaths of professional wrestlers, connecting the cases with usage of anabolic steroids. The death of Hegstrand was not an exception. After the death of this wrestler a lot of articles appeared in newspapers which blamed anabolic steroids for this case.
Joe Laurinaitis admitted to usage of steroids by this wrestling team. But he noted that these preparations hadn’t caused Hegstrand’s death. He added that other conditions 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 confirmed that he wanted 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 individuals, as Henning, Rick Rude and Davey Boy Smith. According to Joe Laurinaitis, intake of cocaine often leads to administration of morphine. These drugs destroy health totally and cause heart attacks.
Why must affirmation of Laurinaitis be true? He was in Australia with Hegstrand. He knows about what he talks. Recently this wrestler collaborated with Andrew William Wright to talk about his experiences with “Hawk”.