Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control and the Tulsa Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit are continuing to target competitive bodybuilders in an ongoing anabolic steroid investigation that has implicated several amateur and professional bodybuilders in an alleged Oklahoma steroid trafficking network since December 2007. Over 75 individuals have been interviewed and a grand jury has convened to investigate the […]
Canadian Football League – Summer Camp for Violators of NFL Steroid Policy
The Canadian Football League (CFL) is the only professional sporting league in North America that has not yet implemented steroid testing for its football players. Former WADA chief Dick Pound had previously called the CFL a “summer camp” for NFL players suspended for violations of the NFL policy on anabolic steroids and related substances […]
INTERPOL Operation Pangea, Counterfeit Drugs and International Steroid Distribution
The INTERPOL operation codenamed Pangea targeted internet pharmacies in ten countries that were selling counterfeit pharmaceuticals. Operation Pangea involved regulatory agencies associated with INTERPOL from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore and Switzerland. The internet pharmacies that were raided as result of the operation were primarily sellers of prescription drugs […]
Soccer Players Don’t Use Anabolic Steroids According to Professional Footballer Association
Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA), asserts that there is a “virtual absence” of steroid use by soccer players in the Premier League . The head of the players’ union cites this as one of his reasons behind his objections to the introduction of WADA drug testing to the popular professional soccer league in […]
Football Manager Alex Ferguson Calls Steroid Testing a Nuisance
Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United boss and hall of fame football (soccer) manager, has criticized the implementation of new steroid testing rules in the Premier League as a “real nuisance.” Barclay’s Premier League is the world’s most lucrative professional football league. The implementation of more vigilant steroid testing protocols comes as UK Sports, the United Kingdom’s […]
NFL Knowledge of Bumetanide-Spiked Supplement Exposed Players to Significant Health Risks
The National Football League apparently is willing to jeopardize the health of its players in a misguided effort to catch athletes who use banned performance enhancing subtances. John Lombardo, M.D., the administrator and medical advisor to the NFL Policy regarding Anabolic Steroids and Related Substances allegedly knew that the dietary supplement StarCaps were contaminated with […]
Canby Police Department Under Investigation for Public Corruption Involving Steroid Distribution
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Portland Office launched a public-corruption investigation involving the role of the Canby Police Department in a steroid distribution network according to an investigative report by Maxine Bernstein of the Oregonian. Federal investigators allege that Canby police officer Jason Deason openly purchased anabolic steroids and growth hormone from local steroid […]
Anti-Steroid Crusader Chosen as Obama Presidential Assistant for Legislative Affairs
President-elect Barack Obama has selected Phil Schiliro as the Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Schiliro will play an important role in the Obama-Biden administration as Obama’s top White House Congressional liason. Phil Schiliro was Chief of Staff to Representative Henry Waxman, the chairman for the House Oversight Committee (“Philip Schiliro, Veteran Congressional Aide, Named To […]
Domain Name Registrars Suspending Anabolic Steroid Websites
International and domestic domain name registrars (DNR) have taken down numerous anabolic steroid websites over the past 30 days, most recently Advanced-Stealth.com and Steroids-Pharmacy.com on November 14, 2008. The DNR takedowns were NOT the result of any law enforcement or government regulatory action; the DNRs apparently initiated the action on their own after pressure from […]
WADA, UNESCO and Internationalization of Steroid Law
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) thanked governments around the world for joining them in their efforts to internationalize steroid law around the world during a ceremony to celebrate the ratification of the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport 2005 by over 100 countries. WADA has explicitly stated their desire for all national governments to […]