The “war on steroids” is bad news for illicit steroid users in the United States. But it may be even worse for steroid users down under; the “internationalization of steroid law” has firmly taken hold in Australia. Australian Customs and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) have instigated an aggressive crackdown on the importation of anabolic steroids. Australian Customs has reported over 300 anabolic steroid seizures during the first three months of the year.
It appears that Australian Customs has targeted parcels originating in Thailand. They have intercepted massive steroid shipments from Thailand again and again.
The ubiquitous Richard Janeczko, Australian Customs national investigations manager, announced yet another seizure of Thailand steroids. The most recent steroid bust result in seizure of 15,000 steroid tablets sealed in six tin cans destined for Perth in Western Australia; the steroid tablets were identified as Dianabol (“Man charged with importing steroid tablets,” August 5).
A 34-year-old Ellenbrook man appeared in Fremantle Magistrate’s Court today charged with importing a banned steroid from Thailand.
The man was charged by customs officials following an investigation into an alleged plot to import more than 15,000 tablets of the banned performance enhancing drug Dianabol.
Customs were alerted to the alleged plot after several thousand tablets were allegedly found inside six tins, packaged as nuts at Perth International Airport mail centre in mid July.
Richard Janeczko is establishing himself as one of the most feared men in Australia to steroid distributors; Janeczko has foiled several “plots” to smuggle steroids into the country. He could be viewed as the Australian counterpart to IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitsky who has been involved in several prominent U.S. steroid investigations.
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Millard writes about anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs and their use and impact in sport and society. He discusses the medical and non-medical uses of anabolic-androgenic steroids while advocating a harm reduction approach to steroid education.
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