Why, then, is the DEA pushing for easier online access to these drugs? And who is lobbying the DEA to do this, when it clearly will only make the DEA’s job harder?
When it comes to policy matters, it is always helpful to follow the money trail to understand the actions of federal agencies and bureacrats. Pharmaceutical companies (Barr Pharmaceuticals), large employers (Wal-mart), prescribing software makers (Allscripts Healthcare Solutions) and electronic prescription networks have lobbied for and/or supported the electronic prescribing of controlled substances.
The number of interesting clips about steroids that were deleted from the final production of Bigger Stronger Faster is amazing. Magnolia Pictures has released fascinating deleted clips on roid rage, steroids for HIV and Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler discussing steroids. The movie is great but much of the unused footage is excellent as well. I hope that the DVD release includes number bonus features including unedited interviews with many of the steroid experts featured (and not featured) in the movie.
Australian Customs and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) are telling the press that an Australian-born Caucasian man living in China is the steroid kingpin and mastermind behind a massive scale distribution of anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs to Olympic athletes competing in Beijing China this summer. The speculation is based on a case involving the seizure of 80kg of steroid powder (containing 40kg active ingredients) intercepted by Australian Customs at at Port Botany (Sydney).
Richard Janeczko, Australian Customs national investigations manager, makes the irresponsible and completely unsubstantiated claim that Olympic athletes were the intended recipients of these steroids even though absolutely NO link with Australian athletes has been uncovered (”Olympic doping linked to huge raid,” June 28)!
It annoys me when people complain about athletes taking steroids to improve athletic performance. It’s a phony argument, because over the years every single piece of sports equipment used by athletes has been improved many times over. Golf balls and clubs; tennis balls, racquets; baseball gloves and bats; football pads and helmets and so on through every sport. Each time technology has found a way to improve equipment it has done so. So why shouldn’t a person treat his body the same way? In the context of sports, the body is nothing more than one more piece of equipment, anyway. So why not improve it with new technology? Athletes use weights, why shouldn’t they use chemicals?
The core bodybuilding community is failing to support the critically acclaimedsteroid documentary “Bigger Stronger Faster*” at the box office. Bodybuilders have the most to gain by the commercial success of a movie that presents the audience with factual information challenging uninformed beliefs about the alleged dangers of anabolic steroids; such a brilliant documentary has the potential to change attitudes regarding steroids in mainstream America. But if the bodybuilding community fails to support a movie that was, as producer Alex Buono says, “made for them” then it may represent the loss of an incredible opportunity to influence public opinion regarding anabolic steroids.
I still meet people who obviously have a serious problem with testosterone deficiency who have all the old AIDS symptoms and the doctor will not give them testosterone because their doctor is so afraid of the legal implications. Thousands of people have died because their doctor wouldn’t prescribe testosterone or anabolic steroids for their HIV.
Roger Clemens, whose claims he never took steroids are under federal investigation, has apparently discovered the benefits of another performance-enhancing drug sweeping the sports world - Viagra.
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Clemens wasn’t alone. The pitcher, who is believed to have scored the drug from a teammate, joined the burgeoning number of athletes who have turned Vitamin V and its over-the-counter substitutes into one of the hottest drugs in locker rooms.
Of course, the performance enhancing benefits of Viagra have been discussed practically ever since Viagra was commercially introduced as a prescription pharmaceutical drug over a decade ago.
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