Media Misleads Public About NFL Players Testing Positive for Steroids

[Millard]

NBC Sports*claimed that NFL player Deuce McAllister tested positive for anabolic steroids using the headline*“Report: Saints’ McAllister positive for steroids” in spite of the fact that the banned diuretic*bumetanide was the culprit. The sensationalistic, highly misleading and false headline may have been the result of media ignorance about anabolic steroids. Bumetanide is NOT an anabolic*steroid.Even [...]

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