Wired Magazine identifies promising medical and pharmaceutical candidates that may represent the next generation of performance enhancement for Olympic athletes. As with any performance enhancing drug, bodybuilders are always the first guinea pigs to experiment with these drugs in the real world. After they receive the seal of approval from the bodybuilding community, the new […]
Trenton Police Department Steroid Scandal
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has targeted several unnamed officers from the Trenton Police Department. The State has sent “target” letters to officers suspected of using human growth hormone and/or anabolic steroids; they are being given the option of cooperating, facing a grand jury, or criminal indictment (“Trenton cops served notice that they’re targets of […]
Dentist Who Sold Prescriptions for Anabolic Steroids to Bodybuilders
Jeffrey Weiser, DDS. was the most popular dentist among bodybuilders for several years even though he never evaluated any patients. Yet he guaranteed to bring a big smile to the faces of his bodybuilding clientele. Even though Weiser retired from the practice of dentistry in May 2001, he retained his DEA controlled substances registration enabling him […]
How Operation Raw Deal Affected Australian Steroid Busts
Operation Raw Deal was the largest steroid law enforcement action in the history of the United States; it resulted in steroid busts involving 56 underground labs including Texstar Labs, Phalco Labs, Powerline Labs, Superior Labs, Medline Pharmaceuticals and Pacific Rim Labs. The steroid busts had a significant impact on underground steroid labs in the United States. But the […]
Spain National Steroid Laws Based on Olympic Doping Rules
Mercedes Coghen, the Spanish Olympic Committe bid chief, is aggressively lobbying to create national steroid laws in Spain consistent with anti-doping rules used by the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency (“Spain’s anti-doping drive boosts Madrid bid,” August 14). “We needed to have a (anti-doping) law that is in the same line as the […]
Organized Doping in Greece Involving Anabolic Steroid Methyltrienolone
The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) president believes organized doping is behind the fifteen Greek athletes who have failed anti-doping tests before and during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Former 400-meter hurdles champion Fani Halkia, swimmer Ioannis Drymonakos, 400-meter runner Dimitrios Regas, sprinter Tassos Gousis and eleven unidentified Greek weightlifters all tested positive for the same prohibited anabolic steroid […]
Officer on Testosterone Replacement Therapy Challenges NYPD Drug-Use Policy
New York Police Department (NYPD) Deputy Chief Michael Marino refused to accept departmental punishment that would dock him 30 days pay and place him on one year probation (“Steroid Cop will fight the rap,” August 15). Marino was on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) for which he obtained a topical testosterone cream from a Lowen’s Pharmacy. Unfortunately, […]
Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Create Perfect Bodybuilder
Scientists are optimistic about gene therapies significantly increasing muscle mass in humans. Gene therapy will be widespread in the sport of bodybuilding much as anabolic pharmacology has seen unrestricted experimentation over the past three decades in bodybuilding. A few medical researchers are working to make laissez faire gene therapy a reality in bodybuilding. Actually, their intent […]
Steroid Witch-Hunt Finds Bodies at Revolution Medical Center
An investigative report claims that anabolic steroids may have caused the deaths of three clients of a Phoenix-based longevity clinic in the past year. The ABC affiliate in Phoenix reports that Brian Stubstad, Aaron Atchley and Filip Petrovic purchased anabolic steroids including testosterone, Anadrol and trenbolone from the Revolution Medical Center clinic. Doctors and investigators are trying to prove that the steroid […]
Anti-Doping Laboratory Equipment is Big Business at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
The China Anti-Doping Agency (CADA) spent approximately $10 million dollars and six years to create a new state of the art laboratory specifically for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Roughly one quarter of that budget ($2.7 million) was used to purchase 60-80 various laboratory testing instruments. The primary beneficiaries of these purchases were the analytical […]