Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control and the Tulsa Police Department are trying to find out if an Oklahoma steroid trafficking network sold anabolic steroids and/or performance enhancing drugs to high school athletes (“Steroid inquiry widens to teen athletes,” April 24). Tulsa and state undercover officers are investigating whether suspected steroid dealers are […]
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Innocent Olympic Athletes Defense Fund
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) stripped Marion Jones’ teammates of medals won at 2000 Sydney Olympics on April 10, 2008. Her teammates on the 1,600 squad were Jearl-Miles Clark, Monique Hennagan, LaTasha Colander-Richardson and Andrea Anderson. The 400-relay squad also had Chryste Gaines, Torri Edwards, Nanceen Perry and Passion Richardson. Seven of the eight teammates have […]
Steroid Witch Hunt in Football Continues?
Paul Coggins, the attorney for NFL football player Matt Lehr, announced that federal prosecutors would not indict his client on steroid distribution charges (“Attorney says ex-Cowboy Lehr won’t be indicted; investigators won’t confirm statement,” April 24). “We have been told by the prosecutors that they do not intend to bring charges against Matt Lehr in […]
Teen Extracurricular Steroid Chemistry and Marketing Experiment
Matthew Wong is not your average 17-year old high school student. He is an innovative entrepreneur, lacking in his legal education, who used the internet to order raw steroid powder from China to manufacture and distribute anabolic steroids in extracurricular chemistry and marketing experiments. Unlike his high school classmates, Wong has been in jail for the […]
Greek Weightlifters Test Positive for Anabolic Steroid Methyltrienolone
Eleven of the fourteen members of the Greek National Weightlifting Team have tested positve for the anabolic steroid methyltrienolone. Both samples A and B were positive for the steroid. This will likely result in the expulsion of the entire Greek Weightlifting Team from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Methyltrienolone is a very toxic oral anabolic steroid. […]
Texas Steroid Network Sold Steroids to Shaun Kelley Weight Control Clinic
One of the co-defendants in the David Jacobs federal steroid investigation claims to have sold personal use quantities of anabolic steroids to Shaun Kelley, owner of Shaun Kelley Weight Control Clinic in Houston (“Suspect says he sold performance-enhancing drugs to clinic tied to Clemens,” April 24). A co-defendant in the Plano steroids trafficking ring linked […]
Steroid Seizures by Australian Customs in First Quarter 2008
Australian Customs has reported over 300 anabolic steroid seizures during the first three months of the year. This reportedly exceeds steroid seizures from previous years. The increase in steroid shipments confiscated by customs prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is similar to increases seen prior to the 2000 Sydney Olympics (“Steroid imports not […]
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Loses Its First Doping Case
Track sprinter LaTasha Jenkins is the first athlete to win a doping case against the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). She was charged with an adverse analytical finding after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in both Sample A and Sample B in July 2006. She was banned from competition for two years. Last week, the World […]
Anti-Aging Industry and Ethical and Professional Misconduct?
An investigative series on anti-aging medicine by Brian Alexander of MSNBC is highly critical of the anti-aging industry. Alexander has interviewed a few academics to reinforce the skeptical overview of the industry suggesting the industry is more about financial profiteering than health optimization (“Mainstream docs join anti-aging bandwagon,” April 21). Dr. Thomas Perls, a Boston […]
Muscular Physique as a Marketing Tool for Cenegenics
A recent ad campaign by Cenegenics Medical Institute seen in various domestic in-flight magazines and on various websites featured the muscular torso of Dr. Jeffry Life, Chief Medical Officer of Cenegenics Las Vegas. One internet banner ad asks the question, “how does this 67-year old doctor have the body of a 30-year old?” The answer, in […]