Scott Henson’s Grits for Breakfast, a top criminal justice and civil liberties blog, believes that side effects from anabolic steroids are relatively modest and that steroids should be legalized. He still believes that steroid use among law enforcement represents a potentially serious problem, but only because the non-medical use of anabolic steroids has been criminalized.
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Lonnie Teper Denounces Anabolic Steroids in Bodybuilding
Ironman Magazine’s Lonnie Teper, the popular bodybuilding writer, promoter and contest emcee, has denounced the use of anabolic steroids in bodybuilding competition on same day that Regis Philbin announced his support of steroids for bodybuilding. Teper’s comments were made in a recent interview with the Pasadena Weekly about the 2008 NPC Junior California Bodybuilding and Figure […]
Regis Philbin Supports Use of Anabolic Steroids to Build Muscle
Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa had a discussion about anabolic steroids this morning on “Live with Regis and Kelly” (airing June 19, 2008 on ABC). Regis wonders why steroids are demonized because they build muscle. Regis: Steroids have gotten a bad rap. Boy oh boy, everyone is condemning them and you are not allowed to have […]
China Revokes GeneScience Pharmaceuticals License for Jintropin Human Growth Hormone
China announced the revocation of the GeneScience Pharmaceutical license to manufacturer Jintropin brand human growth hormone. This represents a major success in efforts towards the internationalization of steroid and doping law by the United States. The U.S. federal government indicted CEO Lei Jin and GeneScience Pharmaceutical Inc. last fall as part of Operation Raw Deal (“China Cracks Down […]
Bodybuilding Community Fails to Support Positive Steroid Documentary
The core bodybuilding community is failing to support the critically acclaimed steroid documentary “Bigger Stronger Faster*” at the box office. Bodybuilders have the most to gain by the commercial success of a movie that presents the audience with factual information challenging uninformed beliefs about the alleged dangers of anabolic steroids; such a brilliant documentary has the potential […]
Critics of Anti-Aging Medicine Propose Crackdown on Illegal HGH Use
Thomas T. Perls, MD and S. Jay Olshansky, PhD attack their favorite punching bag, the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), and other anti-aging management organizations and health care practictioners who prescribe human growth hormone (HGH) to adult patients with adult-onset growth hormone deficiency disorder (GHD) today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Perl and Olshansky […]
Michael Mooney Speaks About Steroids in Deleted Scene from Bigger Stronger Faster
HIV activist Michael Mooney speaks about the therapeutic applications of testosterone and anabolic steroids for HIV wasting in a deleted scene from “Bigger Stronger Faster.” Mooney is the co-author of Built to Survive (along with Nelson Vergel) and wrote about steroids and HIV for the anabolic steroid and bodybuilding magazine Muscle Media 2000. I still meet people who […]
Sports Writers Just Now Learn Viagra Improves Athletic Performance
This week, the New York Daily News ran a series of articles “exposing” the use of Viagra (sildenafil) as a performance enhancing drugs in sports (“Source: Roger Clemens, host of athletes pop Viagra to help onfield performance,” June 10). Roger Clemens, whose claims he never took steroids are under federal investigation, has apparently discovered the […]
Steroid Possession Equals Steroid Abuse in Ohio
A correctional officer employed by the Lebanon Correctional Institution was charged and arrested on four counts of “abusing steroids.” The steroid abuse charges are based on the discovery of “seven vials of anabolic steroid and 16 packs of anabolic steroid tablets” in his apartment (“Corrections officer arrested for steroid abuse,” June 11). The State of Ohio […]
Jay Cutler Discusses Steroids in Deleted Scene from Bigger Stronger Faster
IFBB pro bodybuilder and two-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler talks about anabolic steroid use in the sport of bodybuilding and the necessity of steroids to be the best in bodybuilding in a deleted scene from the highly acclaimed steroid documentary “Bigger Stronger Faster.” … [E]veryone is looking for that edge. You know there are steroids […]