Steroid Articles by Millard Baker

About Millard Baker

Millard Baker writes about anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs and their use and impact in sport and society. He discusses the medical and non-medical uses of anabolic-androgenic steroids while advocating a harm reduction approach to steroid education.

Alpha Pharma Founder Pleads Guilty to $100 Million Steroid Smuggling Conspiracy

December 14, 2018 By Millard Baker

Jacob Sporon-Fielder has admitted to smuggling over $100 million worth of anabolic steroids into the United Kingdom alone. Jacob Sporon-Fiedler, the founder and chief executive officer of Alpha Pharma Healthcare, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import a controlled class C drug (anabolic steroids) contrary to the Customs & Excise Management Act. Sporon-Fielder … [Read more...]

Alpha Pharma Founder Jacob Sporon-Fiedler Arrested and Charged with Steroid Trafficking in the United Kingdom

April 1, 2018 By Millard Baker

Jacob Sporon-Fiedler, the founder and chief executive officer of Alpha-Pharma Healthcare (Alpha Pharma), was arrested by police at the London Heathrow Airport on March 26, 2018. Sporon-Fiedler was booked at the London Heathrow Police Station and charged with conspiracy to import and export a controlled class C drug (anabolic steroids). He appeared in Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court … [Read more...]

The Morality of Steroids and the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990

November 28, 2016 By Millard Baker

How Congress succeeded in criminalizing the personal possession of steroids in opposition to all credible medical and scientific testimony The Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990 (ASCA-1990) was passed when President George H.W. Bush signed the Omnibus Crime Control Bill on November 29, 1990. Its passage effectively criminalized the non-medical use of steroids by individuals … [Read more...]

President Obama: Don’t Buy Steroids from Asia Pharma

June 3, 2013 By Millard Baker

President Barack Obama has designated steroid dealer Mihael Karner as a “kingpin” under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. Why is this a significant development in the United States' war on steroids? What does it mean for individual steroid users? The precedent-setting Karner case represents the first time a President of the United States (POTUS) has considered … [Read more...]

President Obama Escalates War on Steroids – Targets Asia Pharma Owner with Kingpin Act

June 2, 2013 By Millard Baker

President Barack Obama has escalated the United States' international war on anabolic steroids by designating steroid dealer Mihael Karner as a "Significant Foreign Narcotics Trafficker" or "kingpin" under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. Karner (aka Jozef Topolovec) is a Slovenian national who has long been rumored to be the owner behind the steroid laboratory … [Read more...]

American Public Believes Teenagers Have Bigger Problems Than Steroids – And They’re Right

May 17, 2013 By Millard Baker

The American public believes that teenagers are facing much more serious problems in high schools today than the threat of anabolic steroids. This was the finding of a recent national survey study published by the researchers at the Center for Social Development and Education (CSDE) at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The study was funded by the anti-steroid Taylor … [Read more...]