IFBB pro bodybuilder Guy Ducasse pleaded guilty to one count of distributing the anabolic steroid Proviron (mesterolone). Ducasse testified that he gave the steroid to his friend without charge. The bodybuilder did NOT admit to selling steroids in the plea agreement (“Local bodybuilder pleads guilty to distributing steroids,” August 12). A local bodybuilder tied to an […]
Kelly Blair Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Roger Clemens Steroid Book Authors
Kelly Blair, the owner of now-defunct 1-on-1 Elite Personal Fitness near Houston, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the authors and publisher of “American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime” on the eve of his grand jury testimony in the Roger Clemens perjury investigation. The book was written by the […]
IFBB Pro Irene Andersen Cleared of Steroid Distribution Charges in Swedish Muscle Profiling Case
Swedish police have exonerated IFBB pro bodybuilder Irene Andersen of steroid distribution charges. A May 6, 2009 news story published by the Swedish newspaper Expressen.se had implicated Andersen in the possession of anabolic steroids with the intent to resale and distribute. The Swedish newspaper has since admitted to Andersen’s attorney that the sole basis of this […]
FDA Commissioner Emphasizes Enforcement in Guidance to Supplement Industry
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg identified “enforcement of the law” as the overriding objective of the FDA under her leadership at a presentation for the Food and Drug Law Institute in Washington, D.C. on August 6, 2009. Hamburg cited the FDA raid of American Cellular Labs and the FDA public health advisory regarding steroids in supplements […]
New York Times and the (Illegal) Steroid Witch-Hunt in Baseball
Michael Schmidt of the New York Times reported this week that David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were two of the baseball players who tested positive for for anabolic steroids as part of Major League Baseball’s non-disciplinary and anonymous steroid testing in 2003. Jon Pessah, a senior writer at ESPN Magazine, responded that the “real questions […]
FDA Warning Casts Suspicion on Bodybuilding Supplements and Sports Nutrition Industry
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Public Health Advisory (PHA) warning consumers to avoid using bodybuilding supplements claiming to contain “steroids”, “steroid-like substances”, “steroid alternatives” and “hormone products”. The FDA warning failed to give guidance on the specific product ingredients that were problematic. The extremely broad language cast suspicion upon all “body building supplements” marketed for performance enhancement […]
DecaVol Steroid Scandal at Government Nuclear Weapons Facility
Russ Walker, a security police officer at a high-security government nuclear weapons facility, was fired after testing positive for anabolic steroids. Walker attributes the positive steroid test to his use of the over-the-counter supplement identified as “DecaVol” manufactured by Advanced Muscle Science (AMS). Russ Walker was a model employee at Wackenhut Services Inc. Oak Ridge (WSI-OR). WSI Oak Ridge […]
Tren Xtreme Steroid Investigation Leads to Raids of American Cellular Labs and Max Muscle
FDA Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, the agent who has become the face of the federal government witch-hunt against steroid users in professional sports during the BALCO scandal, has move his attention to investigating dietary supplement companies suspected of selling designer anabolic steroids. Novitzky’s latest steroid investigation targeted two popular products sold and marketed as dietary […]
United States Attorney General Praises Use of Terrorism Laws to Disrupt Illegal HGH Market
United States Attorney General Eric Holder praised the Justice Department’s use of terrorism laws to disrupt the illegal distribution of human growth hormone (hGH) during his remarks at a Justice Department leadership conference. Holder celebrated the use of the Patriot Act to eliminate a top supplier of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). The Patriot Act law “permitted” the […]
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Profiling Bodybuilders as Steroid Users
Oklahoma law enforcement has arrested numerous amateur and professional bodybuilders in an ongoing investigation into the distribution of anabolic steroids that started in December 2007. Special Agent R. Brian Surber, of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBNDD), has spearheaded the investigation that has resulted in numerous arrests. It has also resulted […]