Customs officials in San Diego desperately wanted to know “what’s Jose Canseco on now?” San Diego Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) searched and detained Canseco for over nine hours after being caught with a bottle of human chorionic goandotropin (hCG). Customs officials refused to release Canseco unless he allowed them to search his Southern California home. U.S. […]
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Signature Pharmacy Deprived of Double Jeopardy Protections in Secret Plan Concocted by Florida and Albany County
Prosecutors representing the State of Florida and Albany County (New York) methodically planned to prosecute Signature Pharmacy in two separate steroid investigations in a manner that would deprive the defendants of protections against double jeopardy according to court documents. William N. Shepherd, the Statewide Prosecutor for the Florida Attorney General, and David Soares and Christopher […]
New Zealand Bodybuilder Released from Prison Due to Steroid Use and Muscle Dysmorphia
An IFBB pro bodybuilder convicted of GHB/GBL distribution and sentenced to over 10 years in prison was released early due to his history of steroid use and his muscle dysmorphia. Ironically, Justin Rys’ steroid use and participation in bodybuilding worked to his benefit in the New Zealand criminal justice system!! A New Zealand “3 News” […]
Law Enforcement “Monitoring” Customers from Summer Steroid Bust
Individuals who purchased steroids earlier this year at bodybuilding gyms in Opelousas, Eunice and Krotz Springs (Louisiana) may currently be “monitored” by the St. Landry Sheriff Department. This is a consequence of a major steroid bust in Louisiana last summer that uncovered a staggering (!) $15,000 in anabolic steroids and resulted in six arrests thus far. The […]
Anabolic Steroids at the 2008 Olympia Expo
The popular documentary about anabolic steroids can be purchased at the 2008 Olympia Expo in Las Vegas this weekend. “Bigger Stronger Faster*” is a critical exploration of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs in sports and society which tackles many more serious ethical and political issues along the way. The producers of this steroid documentary […]
Anabolic Steroids Have Permanent Performance Enhancing Effects
In April 2008 the Wall Street Journal reported that steroid-induced muscle gains may be permanent. MESO-Rx identified the unnamed and unpublished research study belonging to Swedish researcher Anders Ericsson of the Umea University. Ericsson’s October 2006 doctoral thesis was entitled Strength training and anabolic steroids: a comparative study of the trapezius, a shoulder muscle and […]
Identities of Underground Labs with Contaminated and Underdosed Products Revealed
William Llewellyn and Ronny Tuber recently tested 14 anabolic steroid products from various underground labs (UGLs) for toxic heavy metals and quantification of steroid dosing. Twenty-one percent of the steroid products were contaminated with lead, tin, mercury, and/or arsenic; 64% were significantly underdosed or overdosed. Most notably, the names of the UGLs that “failed” the quality […]
Are Steroids from Underground Labs Contaminated with Toxic Metals?
Most bodybuilders who use anabolic steroids manufactured by underground labs (UGLs) in the United States are primarily concerned with whether or not the product is accurately dosed with the anabolic steroid listed on the label. Some more health conscious steroid users are also concerned about potential health risks arising from the contamination of UGL steroid products […]
Penalty for 10 Dianabol Tablets Worse Than 400,000+ Steroid Dosage Units
The Rodney Philon case is one illustration of the disparity in federal sentencing for anabolic steroid related crimes. Pasco County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Rodney Philon decided to share 10 tablets of Dianabol (methandrostenolone) with a fellow weightlifter at a Tampa Bay area gym; unfortunately the weighlifter was a DEA confidential informant. A SWAT team was […]
Signature Pharmacy Steroid Case Dismissed Due to Prosecutor David Soares Incompetence
A judge dismissed the criminal indictments against the principals in the Signature Pharmacy steroid distribution case citing the incompetence of Albany County District Attorney David Soares. Soares is the lead prosecutor for a small county in New York who had taken it upon himself to spend possibly millions of dollars of Albany residents taxpayer money to […]