Well, his desperate battle to recover from a life-altering train crash has driven him into steroid use. In fact, all these reasons have torn through his relationship with Dana, and his health is in tatters. As we know, Sonny is taking steroids in secret to speed up train crash recovery and Beau uses the drug debt to blackmail him. A train crash had left Sonny unable to walk earlier this year and made his recovery slow and frustrating. However, Remi caught Sonny with the pills but he convinced Dana Matheson that an unknown man offered them at the gym.