Dane Swan and Drug Use

During his career, Dane Swan admitted to taking illicit, not performance enhancing, drugs when playing football in the Australian league. This is no surprise to those know him or the back story in AFL and drugs.

It is an interesting story, of a tattooed, high-profile man with a lot of friends who are bikers. A tale of a man who likes to party, from Vegas to chilling with DJs. It is no shock that Swan occasionally took drugs.

What is shocking is the fact that he admitted to it and is talking about it openly, because players in the AFL simply do not do that. In fact, the foundation of the illicit drug policy rests on the anonymity of players in the AFL.

Dane Swan fully supports the testing of players and the anonymity of the system. However, at the end of his career, he was ready to speak about his life and drug use without any fear of retribution from the AFL. This all comes at a time when he is releasing his autobiography for the world to see.

The masculine name Dane is taken from an English surname that was either a version of the surname Dean or another ethnic name that was in reference to a person from Denmark. The name Dean is either derived from the Middle English word dene meaning valley; or refers to the occupational surname that means “dean,” which is from the Middle English word deen – ultimately derived from the Latin decanus that means “chief of ten”.