Listen i've made a career move and want to become a police officer.  I've spent the last years of my life playing football all over the country and in europe.  Previousy while in college I used steroids(my two last years of college for one month in the summer before training camp and the season started, I was 20 and 21 years old at the time of use) and smoked marajuana(twice and then realized that it was not for me and i gave it up and havent touched it even since, i was 19 when i smoked it two days in a row then never again).  I have not used a steroid since my last year in college(age 21) and never felt that i need them in the upper ranks of the professionals; so i have been clean since i was 21 and im now 25.  I knew when i got out of college that i was wrong in using them to help me and that i have matured to a point that i have seen my follies.  My concern is that i want to apply for law inforcement and am concerned that I will not pass my polygrapgh test.  I am confindedent that i would make a great police officer and love doing that perticular job and profession.  I just don't want my past to hinder the possibility of me eliminating my chances of getting such a rewarding and respectful job.  I never knew that my past juvinile and stupid one time decision would hinder my chance of future employment.  im going to read The Lie Behind the Lie Detector and hope it works.  Do i have a chance to beat this polygraph and have a new career change; or am i doomed to failure?  i am surely not alone in this world with this problem....am I?

Kinda, sorta have to agree with Nunyun on your attempt to hide your past.  You can't expect to start a career in LE by lying.

Either way,  I do have one area of criticism.  You stated you used during your last two years of college.  I am therefore, inferring that you finished college.  This is where my concern comes into it.  A college educated individual misspells: PARTICULAR, JUVENILE, CONFIDENT, AND YOUR OVERALL GRAMMAR SUCKS.  

I know I am taking a cheap shot here, but my point is this, the method in which you present your story is a clear presentation of the kind of person you are.  If you want to be taken seriously then make the attempt to at least do so in a professional and well done manner.

Why do I get the feeling that you are the kind of guy that would show up to your Oral Board interview in jeans or shorts?  Your drug use issue depends on many circumstances.  Things like if they were injectable or not, how you obtained the drugs, how many cycles you used and most importantly what you have done with your life since then and how you present yourself to the BI, Polygrapher and the people on the oral board.