New types of testosterone replacement therapies that require less frequent injections may soon be available in the United States and may already be available in several other countries around the world. Two such testosterone formulations include long-acting esters: testosterone buciclate and testosterone undecanoate. TESTOSTERONE BUCICLATE This long acting testosterone injectable ester last longer than other […]
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IFBB Pro Bodybuilder Guy Ducasse Sentenced to One Month Imprisonment
IFBB professional bodybuilder Guy Ducasse was sentenced to one month imprisonment and 400 hours community service after pleading guilty to steroid distribution. United States District Judge Claire Eagan emphatically rejected the prosecution’s argument that Ducasse was “no different than any other drug dealer and should be treated accordingly.” Federal prosecutors had asked Judge Eagan to […]
President Obama’s Comments on Alex Rodriguez Steroid Use
President Barrack Obama commented on anabolic steroids during his first presidential press conference in response to a question by Washington Post reporter Michael A. Fletcher. Fletcher surprisingly asked President Obama about Alex Rodriguez’ admission of anabolic steroid use during his Major League Baseball career, “What is your reaction to Alex Rodriguez’s admission that he used steroids as […]
Academic Argument for Responsible Use of Anabolic Steroids by Healthy Individuals
Academic researchers and policy experts advocated the acceptance of pharmacological performance-enhancement by mentally-competent, healthy individuals in a thought-provoking commentary in the journal Nature. The authors of the commentary restricted their argument to cognitive-enhancing drugs such as Adderall, Ritalin and Provigil, but every facet of their argument, point by point, holds relevance for a “presumption” that healthy individuals, […]
International Steroid Morality Police Force Established with WADA and INTERPOL Partnership
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) reached an agreement with INTERPOL to faciliate international police cooperation in its politicized and moralistic campaign against the use of anabolic steroids for non-medical purposes (e.g. motivated by increased muscle size, improved strength, enhanced athletic performance and greater physical attractiveness). WADA has spearheaded the internationalization of steroid law with UNESCO International […]
Anti-Steroid Crusader Chosen as Obama Presidential Assistant for Legislative Affairs
President-elect Barack Obama has selected Phil Schiliro as the Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Schiliro will play an important role in the Obama-Biden administration as Obama’s top White House Congressional liason. Phil Schiliro was Chief of Staff to Representative Henry Waxman, the chairman for the House Oversight Committee (“Philip Schiliro, Veteran Congressional Aide, Named To […]
IOC Pressures UK to Criminalize Personal Use of Anabolic Steroids
The International Olympic Committe (IOC) is pressuring the United Kingdom (UK) to criminalize the personal use of anabolic steroids prior to the 2012 London Olympics. The mere possession of anabolic steroids and/or the importation of steroids for personal use is not an offense under UK law. Consequently, athletes (and bodybuilders) in the United Kingdom can […]
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 […]
Proposal for Major Steroid League Baseball
Mike Markson has an interesting proposal for confronting the problem of anabolic steroids (and performance enhancing drugs) in baseball – “let them cheat.” His steroid comments were included in suggestions to make baseball more exciting. I started thinking, if I was to come up with a baseball variant to try and take on MLB, what […]
Anabolic Steroid Use and “Immoral Behavior” by Athlete Role Models
Attempts to eliminate anabolic steroid from sports in an effort to preserve athletes as role models for our children is a failed strategy. The real problem lies with a society that worships athletes as role models. Manufacturing a moral issue out of steroid use in professional sports is hypocritical when other “immoral” behavior by athletes is […]