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- Congress Seeks to Control Steroid Precursors
A congressional committee on Thursday moved to ban steroid-like substances from store shelves but exempted DHEA. Write your congressman now. Tell him/her to oppose HR 3866
- Alleged Iowa Steroid Ring Grows Into Arizona
B.J. Stevens grossed $400,000 from 2001 to early this year selling human growth hormone to bodybuilders
more Steroid Madness
- Steroids for Everyone!, Wired Magazine
“Drugs make athletes better. So why ban them? Let’s regulate instead.”
- Trainer accused of selling steroids
What’s significant about this article is that the unnamed suspect placed in the 2002 NPC Emerald Cup, so they go to Elaine Craig, the co-promoter, for a comment:
“I don’t support the use of drugs, and the majority of bodybuilders don’t,” she said. “It isn’t done freely, and it isn’t mainstream.” There are people who choose to cross the line, she added.
Craig said she would be hard-pressed to take the trophies from the suspect, since she likely couldn’t prove he was using steroids during the competitions.
What a joke. The Emeral Cup is not a drug tested contest, so they know that most everyone in the contest is on steroids or growth hormone. After all, it is the NPC, where steroids are done freely and are in the mainstream.
Only five out of the twenty contests on the CraigPro site (covering Washington, Oregon, Utah, and Alaska) are listed as drug tested or has the word “natural” in the title.
Steroids Again
- House panel approves bill to limit sales of steroid precursors
The bill also would double the penalties for manufacturing or distributing anabolic steroids at or near a sports facility, prompting the only real debate at Wednesday’s meeting.
The bill is H.R. 3866.
The rational behind extra penalties for selling drugs near a school is that children are innocent, unable to make decisions regarding their health and safety on their own, and need protection. None of those apply to adults at the local gym.
Prior to the Steroid Control Act of 1990, you could find a doctor specializing in sports medicine who would prescribe reasonable doses of anabolic steroids, monitoring your blood and liver all through the process. The Steroid Control Act of 1990 made anabolic steroids C-III controlled substance (possession without a script from a US doctor is a felony), and made it illegal for a doctor to prescribe them for performance enhancement. Fourteen years later, anabolic steroids are more popular than ever. But you can’t go to a doctor for advice. Instead you go to your local drug dealers and hope that what he gives you is not fake, diluted, contaminated, or counterfeit.
Then because of a loophole in the Hatch Supplement Act, steroid precursors (prohormones) were discovered and became available at every local health food store. They’re not as good as anabolic steroids. Some may be harsher on your liver than injectables, but at least you know what you’re getting. Now the US government wants to outlaw prohormones and increase the penalties for selling steroids near a gym.
Adolescents under the age of 21 should not use anabolic steroids or prohormones. They’re not done growing. Limiting the sales of prohormones to adults is a reasonable measure to take. But that would just force adolescents to buy real steroids off the black market.
The only way to prevent children from buying steroids is to dry up the black market. The only real way to do that is to allow doctors to prescribe steroids for cosmetic or muscle enhancing purposes. I, as an adult, have the right to change my appearance as many times as I wish through surgery. Why not through hormones?
Roid Madness, part 3
- Rodney St Cloud arrested
A firefighter who is also a bodybuilder and moonlights as a stripper was arrested Wednesday when Customs officers discovered a box from China containing $347,000 worth of anabolic steroids [and human growth hormone] addressed to him, law enforcement officials said.
Police charged Rodney St. Cloud, 30, with criminal possession of a controlled substance.
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Berman Introduces Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004
“It updates the list of illegal dangerous substances being marketed as performance ?enhancers? and increases the potential penalties for those who traffic them within 1000 feet of a sports facility. “
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Florida bill requires testing high school athletes for steroid drug use
Concerned about growing steroid use at the high school level, a [Florida] House panel said Monday it’s time to require random drug testing for prep athletes.
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Push for Steroid Testing in Schools, Florida Today
Headlines
- Olympics-Genetic Engineering Is Next Doping Threat
- Steroids: Cause or symptom?
- Getting Off Steroids Can Be Tough
- Bodybuilding contest held in Alameda
- Obituary - Stewart Cameron
Roid Madness, part 2
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The Governor of California took time from his state’s deepening fiscal crisis last weekend to preside over a body building contest.
Never mind that the guy who won the event, the prize for which included a Hummer and $100,000, looked as natural as a taxidermy exhibit. [...]
By coming to Columbus last weekend, the Governor admirably refused to ignore his roots. But the ground is starting to shift underfoot. Things are starting to get messy. It’s time for Arnold to get it.
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Heavyweights convene on steroids
[this must be written tongue-in-cheek]
Conspicuously absent from the proceedings was Caleeeefornia governor Arnold “First Terminator” Schwarzenegger. According to Sacramento insiders, Arnold was busy examining results from the steroid tests that should have been administered at last weekend’s Arnold Classic bodybuilding competition.
While not guilty of steroid use until the phantom testing is completed, it has been alleged that several Arnold Classic competitors strained muscles in their ears and lips during posedowns.
Roid Madness, part 1
News items found elsewhere:
- New grand jury convened in Iowa, Milos Sarcev’s home raided
The grand jury subpoenas were served last week in the Greater Columbus Convention Center [during the Arnold Classic]. The subpoenas require the recipients to testify later this month, Collins said. The attorney said he believes at least five bodybuilders received subpoenaes.
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Schwarzenegger Vows to Combat Steroid Use
Governor Schwarzenegger, a self-confessed former steroid user (it was both legal and common practice when he used it), wants to clean up bodybuilding now. Recently named executive editor of Flex and Muscle, and Fitness magazines, he spoke to reporters on the steroid topic.
He admitted that he used steroids to bulk up, but is now vowing to use his new position as editor of a muscle magazine to push for an end to steroid use in the sport, the San Jose Mercury News reported on Sunday.
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Government intervention needed to clean up baseball
Just look at the mutant creatures on the covers of bodybuilding magazines and tell me anabolic steroids don’t work.
Dennis James arrested in Thailand
Translated from http://www.thairath.co.th
“On 26th February at 9.00am, Dr. Mahaisak (chief of police), and Mr Yakvarachai (drugs officer) along with a DEA officer, arrested Mr Dennis James, the American champion body builder.
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Serostim and the Wall Street Journal
The following was originally posted on my personal blog.
So my name appears in an article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. Here’s the beginning of the article:
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