Charlie Sheen thinks the use of anabolic steroids should be allowed in Major League Baseball – at least on a limited basis. Sheen tells Sports Illustrated that every MLB baseball team should be allowed one “total f*cking steroid maniac”. He argues that the banning of performance-enhancing drugs should follow the same model as the banning of the spitball in baseball in 1919-1920. [Read more…]
Archives for June 2011
Jun
29
Charlie Sheen Admits Using Steroids for Role of Baseball Player in “Major League”
Charlie Sheen admitted using anabolic steroids in preparation for the role of the fictitious baseball player Rick “Wild Thing” Vaughn in the 1989 movie “Major League”. Sheen makes the confession in Sports Illustrated’s “Where Are They Now” issue according to a report by the New York Daily News. [Read more…]
Jun
29
Treasure Coast Pharmacy Raided by Drug Enforcement Agency
Treasure Coast Pharmacy, a Florida-based compounding pharmacy well known in the bodybuilding community for compounding custom formulations of anabolic steroids, was raided by several U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents early on Tuesday morning. The Florida Department of Health also participated in the raid. Agents seized several boxes of documents possibly containing records of prescribing doctors and pharmacy clients. [Read more…]
Jun
28
Steroid Distribution at Planet Nutrition in Lake Charles
Jordan & Chris Nutrition LLC doing business as Planet Nutrition in Lake Charles (Louisiana) was a distribution point for anabolic steroids manufactured by a local underground steroid lab according to court documents. Jordan Berza and Christopher Gass, the owners of Planet Nutrition, have pleaded guilty to the conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids and money laundering charges. Three additional individuals, out of 13 co-defendants in the case, have also pleaded guilty to steroid conspiracy charges. Prosecutors expect more guilty pleas to follow. [Read more…]
Jun
27
Customs Shares Information About Steroid Users with World Anti-Doping Agency
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) continues to makes progress in its international lobbying efforts to convince international governments to share information about their country’s respective users of anabolic steroids. WADA has been a driving force behind the criminalization of doping and anabolic steroid possession around the world. It has succeeded, practically unopposed, in expanding the disastrous intenational war on drugs to include anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). [Read more…]
Jun
26
UK Police Officer Faces Trial on Steroid Charges After Found Not Guilty of Rape
Suspended West Yorkshire Police Officer Mark Carter pleaded not guilty to a charge related to the possession of anabolic steroids. Police discovered 277 tablets of the steroid stanozolol when they arrested Carter on suspicion of raping a man and sexually assaulting three other men at the Etap Hotel in Leeds on December 19, 2009. [Read more…]
Jun
25
Secret Service Agent Sues Oklahoma Narcotics Agent for ‘Muscle Profiling’
United States Secret Service Agent Lester Blount has filed a lawsuit against Brian Surber of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (OBNDD) in Oklahoma County District Court. The lawsuit alleges civil rights violations and malicious prosecution by Brian Surber. It claims that the search warrant affidavit included “false, misleading and/or fabricated allegations.” [Read more…]
Jun
24
World Anti-Doping Agency Falsely Accused Athletes of Using Steroids
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) determined that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has falsely accused athletes of using anabolic steroids due to errors by one of its formerly accredited worldwide laboratories. The Malaysia lab has since been removed from WADA’s list of accredited labs. [Read more…]
Jun
23
Jose Canseco Thinks Baseball is 100 Percent Steroid-Free
Jose Canseco, the self-proclaimed “godfather of steroids” in baseball, believes Major League Baseball is completely free of anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. Canseco thinks the MLB’s anti-steroid policy has eliminated steroids from the sport rather than force athletes to use more sophisticated doping methods to evade detection. [Read more…]
Jun
22
Belgium Police Create “Hormones Unit” to Handle Huge Steroid Problem
The Belgium Police have compiled a 35-page report detailing the rapid increase in the use of anabolic steroids in the country. The Police have responded by creating a special “Hormones Unit” to cope with the increased supply and demand of anabolic steroids. [Read more…]
