Steroids News

Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez have taken their teams deep into the playoffs, and no one seems to remember that at the outset of the season both were busted for using performance-enhancing drugs.

Last weekend, Yankee fans were chanting Rodriguez’s name, and the same Dodger fans who once booed Barry Bonds for drug use welcomed Ramirez back with open arms after his suspension.

Both men were national pariahs last spring. Ramirez was suspended for the first 50 games of the season. Rodriguez, caught belatedly for using steroids years earlier (but not since then, he claimed), faced only the backlash of public opinion.

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Two officers cleared of steroid allegations said they are done with the Metro police force. After living 19-months under a dark cloud of suspicion, the two said they will resign.

The illegal use or sale of steroids has no place in law enforcement. Such allegations nearly cost Metro officers Dan Cage and Stephen Reece their careers.

In February of 2008, Cage and Reece were stripped of their police powers. This after their names surfaced in connection with the illegal distribution of steroids in the Nashville area.

The officers were reinstated and cleared of any wrongdoing, but both expect to resign this week. They plan to take jobs with a private security firm providing protection for civilian contractors in Iraq.

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A Colorado businessman has pleaded guilty to steroid charges in what prosecutors describe as a $4 million distribution scheme that allegedly operated in at least 10 states.

James A. Abernathy of Colorado Springs, pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering. The Mobile Press-Register reported Abernathy’s plea Monday.

He had faced trial along with 11 other defendants after an investigation focusing on Applied Pharmacy Services.

Abernathy also agreed to surrender $5,000 in drug proceeds and money used to facilitate the conspiracy.

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With growing public concerns about the unregulated health supplement market, Mass Tab, a supplement marketed to help users gain weight and strength is under fire today after allegedly causing a stroke in a 17-year-old football player who used the product and then fell ill.

“The manufacturers of Mass Tab have engaged in what appears to be fraud and reckless and negligent marketing of a bogus bulking supplement that contained a steroid,” said Greg Davis, attorney for the young football player, who filed a lawsuit in state court today. “The manufacturers failed to test and to warn the public of the known risks of its product, insidiously marketing it as
having ‘low side-effects.’

According to the complaint, Jacob Bray, a young athlete from Tulsa, purchased Mass Tab from the Supplement Shak in Oklahoma, and used Mass Tab over the course of several weeks. On January 31, 2008, Bray was weightlifting and immediately after doing a lift had a severe headache, which he terms as “an instant migraine,” and was disoriented.

Mass Tab is a supplement marketed by IDS, Supplement Synergy and Challenger Holdings for those who wish to gain body weight and strength. Mass Tab appears to have been pulled recently from the market but could be sold and marketed under a new name.

Mass Tab contains, as one of its active ingredients, Stenbolone, which is identified as a steroid.

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Three more Indian weightlifters have tested positive for doping, taking the latest positive tests to five, and the national body is now facing another suspension.
Male lifters Harbhajan Singh and Rajesh Kumar and female Bijaya Devi were caught in World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) tests at a training camp for the Commonwealth championships, Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) secretary Baldev Gulati said.

Shailaja Pujari, a women’s 75kg gold medallist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and men’s 56kg lifter Vicky Batta failed out-of-competition tests last month.

The Commonwealth meet starts in Malaysia on Sunday.

All of the competitors have denied any wrongdoing and were seeking tests of their B samples, Gulati said.

“What is causing a bit of suspicion is all of them have tested for the same type of anabolic steroid, the same quantum. There is something that doesn’t look very natural.”

India has repeatedly faced embarrassment due to doping among weightlifters and the national body was banned in 2004 and 2006, because three or more lifters tested positive in a calendar year.

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MANILA, Philippines — The United States and China appear to be in a custodial tug of war over a suspected Chinese importer of counterfeit Viagra and Xenical tablets, whom the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) placed on “provisional arrest” for extradition to Texas.

In a diplomatic note dated Sept. 30 and sent to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Chinese embassy in Manila expressed its strong opposition to the extradition to the US of its citizen Miao Qun Huang, alias Cherry Wong.

Investigation by US authorities showed that Huang exported to the US counterfeit sex enhancement medicines Viagra and Cialis and slimming treatments Xenical and Reductil.

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Dr. Ramon Scruggs, 62, of Santa Ana, Calif., pleaded guilty last week to drug trafficking and will be sentenced Dec. 7 in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

He admitted to prescribing steroids over the Internet for non-medical purposes from January 2003 to April 2007.

Cleveland police Lt. Anthony Tuleta, 51, of West 14th Street, is accused of buying the drug from Scruggs and submitting bills totaling $95,000 to Medical Mutual. Tuleta is charged with drug possession and theft. He was suspended in November without pay, after 27 years with the police department.

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The Twin Cities men allegedly sold drugs mislabeled as Cialis, Viagra, Propecia, Xanax and other such medications.

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Nicholas David Lundsten, 26, of Spring Lake Park, and Patrick James Barron, 29, of Fridley, for the interstate sale of mislabeled drugs and for importing controlled substances. The indictment was filed in federal court Wednesday.

The indictments are the result of an investigation by the FDA, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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A former Department of Public Safety trooper has been indicted on charges that he sold steroids to an undercover informant.

According to the Kerrville Daily Times, Jeffery Jerman was indicted Monday by a Kerr County grand jury for allegedly selling steroids to a former Kerrville police officer in the parking lot of the Kerrville H-E-B on Sept 7.

Jerman may also face federal charges.

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Repros Therapeutics Inc. announced results from an exploratory, efficacy and safety study of its oral investigational product, enclomiphene citrate (Androxal(R)), in men with secondary hypogonadism who were receiving testosterone replacement treatment. Secondary hypogonadism is a deficiency state in which the male hormone testosterone goes below the normal range, even in aging men, due to inadequate stimulation of the testes by the pituitary.

Dr. Jed Kaminetsky (Department of Urology, New York University Medical Center), the lead investigator noted, “Androxal may fill the need for a drug that is able to restore testicular function and at the same time provide the benefits that normalization of testosterone provides to hypogonadal men. If Androxal can be safely developed, it will represent an important new treatment option for men with secondary hypogonadism with a continued fertility interest.”

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