Anabolic Steroids

""You need to be constantly drilling it into their heads," Hughes says. "It's not good enough to say something once. "The most powerful tool we have is to be telling them steroids can mess up your career, your sex life, and can make you depressed. You have to keep going at them." That's exactly the tack of the NFL ATLAS and ATHENA programs created by Linn Goldberg and Diane Elliot of the Oregon Health & Science University. Fairmont Heights High, in Capitol Heights, Md., was one of the first 22 schools to participate in the program last year." - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

Patrick Arnold cites resveratrol study on testosterone

August 29 at 9:50 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"In conclusion, we propose that resveratrol has a positive effect on male reproductive function by triggering a penile erection, as well as enhancing blood testosterone levels, testicular sperm counts, and epididymal sperm motility." - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

Patrick Arnold on 6-bromoandrostenedione concerns (for PCT)

August 29 at 9:47 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"6alpha fluoro testosterone has 1-2 times the anabolic activity of regular testosterone. and 6alpha chloro test has up to 2.8 times the anabolic activity of testosterone. it is expected that 6alpha bromo testosterone (what 6-alpha bromo androstenedione turns into) would be similarly potent as an anabolic hormone. i cannot find data on this compound specifically but i know that in other positions in the steroid, a bromo substitution usually is equivalent to what is seen with a fluoro (both being somewhat weaker than a chloro) the 6beta fluoro and chloro have only about 20-25% anabolic activity of the 6alphas. i am reasonably sure that the 6-bromodione avaialble from china is a mixture of alpha and beta isomers. too expensive to seperate bottom line, there is reason to be concerned about the wisdom of taking a 6-bromo product for PCT. at least one of the isomers likely converts into a potent anabolic steroid. this would make it suppressive enough to render insignificant any HPTA stimulating action acheived - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

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Planet Pharmacy Case - Government Protects Americans from Cheap Generic Medications

August 28 at 9:36 am - Link

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Economics and Liberty: Panel readies bill to rid sports of steroids in sports

August 28 at 9:21 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"I also think that the role of government in protecting individual liberty means that Congress should not regulate steroid use. One asserted source of harm from steriod use by athletes is probably that fans may be turned off by knowing the athletes are so good because they use performance drugs. Even if true, this does not justify Congressional regulatory action because each league can decide for itself what best suits its ability to supply fans the entertainment services they enjoy. The conditions of competition within professional sports should be set by each sport alone." - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

I'm sure some will argue that professional athletes are role models for kids, and therefore, if kids know professional athletes use steroids then they will want to use steroids. Kids are simply too young to decide for themselves, and therefore, government is needed to stop adult athletes from inadvertently causing kids to use steroids. The line of cause and effect seems pretty lengthy here, and therefore, I grow suspicious that even if I accepted the theory of government behind this reason for Congress to regulate steroid use by athletes, I would have to conclude that Congress is very unlikely to pick a well targeted regulatory policy. The individual liberty of athletes would be sacrificed for an uncertain and limited quantitative impact on kids. - Millard Baker

Further, Congress is not the parent of the kids in question. Suppose a high school football player came to his parents and said: "I'm pretty good and I think I could be good enough to get a scholarship to college and even have a good chance at the NFL, but I think that to have a chance at reaching my goals I should use steroids. What do you think? Will you help me pursue my goals in this way?" Many parents would investigate steroid use and conclude that their son should not be allowed to use the drug and they would just say no to steroid use. But, if the parents said yes, on what theory of government should we think it is legitimate for Congress to tell the parents they cannot make this decision for their son? I think government should let each parent decide what is acceptable for their kids. - Millard Baker

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"Anabolic steroids are the only hormones in the entire Controlled Substances Act, and testosterone,..."

August 26 at 11:17 am - Link

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Joseph Biden Criminalized Anabolic Steroids with Harsher Penalties for Possession and Distribution

August 26 at 11:02 am - Link

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August 26 at 10:00 am - Link

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Pro Pharm Labs Pleads Guilty to Federal Steroid Distribution Charges

August 26 at 6:27 am - Link

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Men, Women and Speed. 2 Words - Got Testosterone?

August 25 at 3:27 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Women are slower than men in running, in swimming, in cycling. Whether it is a 100-meter race on the track or a marathon, a 200-meter butterfly swim or a 10-kilometer marathon swim, the pattern holds... “To a large extent, it’s a matter of testosterone,” said Dr. Benjamin Levine, director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Presbyterian Hospital and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. “That’s why systematic doping of women is even more effective than systematic doping of men. That’s why the East German women were so much more successful than the East German men.” The hormone affects everything from muscle size and strength to the size of the heart to the amount of oxygen-carrying blood cells in the body to the percentage of fat on an athlete’s body. Every one of those effects gives men a performance advantage. " - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

With drug testing, geography matters when Jamaica, Brazil, India, Nigeria lack independent anti-doping agencies

August 25 at 2:29 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"David Howman, director general of the Montreal-based WADA, acknowledged in an interview this week that some athletes have it better than others. For example, Jamaica didn't join a new regional anti-doping agency based in Barbados two years ago. The island nation instead opted to form its own anti-doping agency, which began operating three days after the Olympics' opening ceremony. "I've been down there to accelerate'' the program, Howman said, adding that Brazil, India and Nigeria also have lagged in forming independent anti-doping agencies to monitor their athletes. After Bolt's sprint to his second gold medal Wednesday, Jamaican team physician Herb Elliott responded to questions about performance-enhancing drugs by saying: "Anybody who wants to cast aspersions about our program, about drugs, I can just say one thing — they can go to hell. We are ready at any time, at any hour to be tested."" - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

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Steroids Discovered in Usain Bolt’s Yams

August 25 at 1:59 pm - Link

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Let 'em eat steroids it doesn't ruin it for me

August 25 at 1:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"When athletes compete at the highest levels, all that matters is winning. The environment can become cultlike, in that normal standards no longer apply... But my coaches encouraged it, the doctor offered it, and many of my teammates lined up right behind me. It was ordinary. I would have done anything that would have allowed me to perform better... I don't blame the athletes like Marion Jones for juicing their performance with a little extra oomph. She's caught up in her sport; she needs that little somethin' somethin' to maintain her edge. Everyone else is doing it. If you shot me up with whatever she had, I wouldn't be the fastest woman alive. It was still her out there on that track. Just as it's Shawn Johnson flipping and spinning on the floor mat. If the athletes are willing to risk their health -- which many do already without taking steroids -- let them. It doesn't ruin it for me. - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

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If your steroid source is busted, you are in a government database

August 25 at 11:27 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"there’s this thing called the NADDIS (Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Information System), which is: “A centralized automated file of summaries of reports on subjects of interest to DEA, consisting of over 5.9 million subjects on individuals, businesses, vessels, aircraft and selected airfields identified through the DEA investigative reporting system, and related investigative records.” And if you were on any of the customer lists from the busted labs from ORD, any from the recently busted QGL/Champ/HCP, Signature Pharmacy, a member of SSB, etc…then you’re in the NADDIS, just like me. " - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

Joseph Biden is the Worst Possible Pick for Steroid Law Reform

August 25 at 10:46 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Senator Biden has admitted that his anti-steroid zealotry originated with his failure to make the sports team in college; he was certain he was outperformed by some steroid user! As a senator, he has used his power and influence to get back at those superior athletes in sports who may have been using steroids. Of course, he is only figuratively punishing those athletes from his college days by criminalizing anabolic steroids for all individuals who use steroids for non-medical purposes." - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

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Eugene Bolton and Monday Miller plead guilty, agree to testify in steroid scandal, avoid prison time

August 24 at 6:54 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Eugene Bolton, 40, and Monday Miller, 38, both described in court how they took telephone orders for prescription drugs from customers who had never been examined by doctors. The prescriptions, which they filled out, were then faxed to physicians who would sign them and send them back without ever examining the "patients." [...] Bolton and Miller declined comment as they left court. They each pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge but have agreed to cooperate with authorities, including testifying at trials, in exchange for deals that would keep them out of prison." - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

Bodybuilders and Wrestlers implicated in Compouding Pharmacy Steroid Scandal

August 24 at 6:47 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"BODYBUILDERS: Victor Martinez, Ronnie Coleman PRO WRESTLERS: Kurt Angle; Randy Orton; Chris Benoit (deceased); Eddie Guerrero (deceased); Adam Copeland; Shane Helms; Oscar Gutierrez (Rey Mysterio); Charlie Haas; Robert Huffman; Simon Dean; Santino Marella; John Morrison; William Regal; Chris Masters; Chavo Guerrero; Kenneth Anderson; David Bautista; Shoichi Funaki" - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

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Don Catlin says can spin anti-doping test results anyway you want

August 24 at 8:29 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

""The big issue with results is: Are we seeing less positives because doping is cleaned up, or because athletes have gotten smarter and moved on to other drugs?'" said Don Catlin, chief executive of the U.S. Anti-Doping Research Institute and member of the IOC's medical commission. "We have no way of knowing that. Depending on which side of the fence you sit, you can spin that to your own purpose."" - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

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Steroid Doctor for Pro Wrestlers Pleads Guilty in Applied Pharmacy Services Investigation

August 24 at 1:26 am - Link

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WWE wrestlers allegedly tied to illegal steroid ring run by Dr. David Wilbirt

August 23 at 3:46 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"David Wilbirt, an Arizona doctor, was investigated by the DEA from 2001 to 2005 for allegedly writing 3,879 prescriptions between November 2004 and April 2005, all for "patients" who had requested drugs over the Internet... his name has surfaced several times in the official documents we reviewed from the "Operation Netroids" investigation... We'd already seen his name come up in conjunction with Kurt Angle, a 1996 Olympic gold-medal-winning freestyle wrestler and now a star professional wrestler who allegedly received two prescriptions for trenbolone and one for nandrolone between October 2004 and February '05. It turns out Angle isn't the only pro wrestler alleged to have received prescriptions from Wilbirt. According to the official documents we reviewed, Wilbirt was billed for HCG and the steroid stanozolol that were sent to WWE star Eddie Guerrero in early 2005... Wilbirt also allegedly issued prescriptions for the steroids nandrolone and stanozolol to Oscar Gutierrez, whose stage name is Rey Mysterio. - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

Dr. David Wilbirt and fiancee Candace Toler plead guilty to steroid distribution

August 23 at 3:33 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Sports Illustrated reported on its Web site that Wilbirt was billed for the hormone hCG and stanozolol, performance-enhancing drugs that were shipped to Guerrero, who was known as "Latino Heat" in the world of professional wrestling. Other prominent athletes that obtained steroids from Wilbirt, according to the magazine, include WWE wrestler Randy Orton, Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle and Oscar Gutierrez, who wrestles under the name Rey Mysterio. DEA agents raided Wilbirt's home in Tempe, Ariz., in 2005 and seized patient files, suspected drugs, nearly $30,000 in gold and silver coins and three bank accounts. Citing an affidavit filed in Arizona's federal court, the East Valley Tribune reported that Wilbirt had written 3,879 prescriptions for controlled substances over a five-month period in 2004 and 2005 — more than any other doctor in the state." - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

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Internet Steroid Source Busted in Kentucky

August 22 at 3:31 pm - Link

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Infinite Number of Undetectable Designer Steroids with Combinatorial Chemistry

August 22 at 2:59 pm - Link

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Patrick Arnold on creating designer steroids via combinatorial chemistry

August 22 at 1:25 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"this is the type of thing they use in the development of SARMS, which are non steroidal androgens/anabolics. why confine you to the four ring structure of steroids when that is too easy for the drug testers to figure out (steroid backbones have unique signatures on the mass spec)? And (in the case of legit medicine) too politically incorrrect" - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

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Worst Case of Steroid-Induced Acne Ever

August 22 at 11:56 am - Link

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Bodybuilder scarred from steroids

August 22 at 10:33 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Dr Peter Arne Gerber, from the Department of Dermatology at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, Germany, said moderate amounts of the drug could cause big problems. "Usually in people taking moderate doses of the drug you see some sort of mild acne but in severe cases it can ulcerate... Professor Peter Sonksen, an emeritus professor of endocrinology at St Thomas' Hospital in London, said at the doses used by the man he would expect to see problems but he was still shocked at the extent of the scarring." - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

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Texas testing program screens for only 10 of 36 prohibited steroids as debate rages

August 21 at 11:44 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Texas' University Interscholastic League lists 36 banned steroids in the rules for its two-year, $6 million program that began in February. It tests for 10, UIL spokeswoman Kim Rogers told USA TODAY this week... "If they're only testing for a third of the list (of banned steroids), it does raise one question: What's the point?" says Texas State Sen. Dan Patrick, one of seven lawmakers who voted against funding the program. "There's no need to spend taxpayer dollars on this."" - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

Six Positive Doping Results in 2008 Beijing Olympics so far

August 21 at 10:55 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

1. Maria Isabel Moreno (Spain) EPO; 2. Chang Tai-shan, (Taiwan) “fertility medication;” 3. Kim Jong Su (North Korea) propranolol; 4. Do Thi Ngan Thuong (Vietnam) furosemide; 5. Fani Halkia (Greece) methyltrienolone; 6. Daniela Yordanova (Bulgaria) methyltestosterone - Millard Baker via Bookmarklet

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How Athletes Beat Olympic Drug Testing Radio Podcast

August 20 at 11:31 pm - Link

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