Anabolic Steroids Cause “Permanent Severe Cognitive Deficits”

The defense team of NPC bodybuilder Thomas Vigliatura used the “steroids made me crazy” defense in Vigliatura’s GHB/GBL distribution trial. (“Vigliatura says he’s changed,” March 30)

At the same time. Mr. Vigliatura’s life was a merry-go-round of alcohol abuse, substance abuse and, most horrifically, the conduct detailed in the indictment, Mr. Sinnis said. Mr. Vigliatura suffered from physical and psychiatric symptoms as a result of androgenic-anabolic steroids he began using in 1990 in connection with body building, Mr. Sinnis said.

And the steroid money quote…

The steroids left him with permanent severe cognitive deficits, according to excerpts of a neuropsychology report commissioned by the defense. But it noted that he has greatly recovered, perhaps fully, from the psychological and mood effects of the steroids and it predicted an ability to return to a fulfilling and gainful life in society.

The steroid insanity defense. Damn those steroids. Damn those steroids!!

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