A Connecticut man was convicted and sentenced for second-degree assault and first-degree unlawful restraint. Carlos Ramos threatened the life of his girlfriend, punched and kicked her on the ground and then forced himself upon her; he did not face rape charges because she allegedly consented. He invoked the “dumbbell defense” blaming his behavior on his use of anabolic steroids (”Victim asks judge to go easy on abuser,” August 30).
“I was not like that before I did steroids,” Carlos Ramos said. “I know I hit her, but I don’t remember doing it.”
Judge Michael Sheldon, of the Litchfield Superior Court, agreed that anabolic steroids caused Ramos to beat his girlfriend.
Jeffrey Weiser, DDS. was the most popular dentist among bodybuilders for several years even though he never evaluated any patients. Yet he guaranteed to bring a big smile to the faces of his bodybuilding clientele.
Even though Weiser retired from the practice of dentistry in May 2001, he retained his DEA controlled substances registration enabling him to continue writing scripts for prescription medications. Weiser used his DEA license to write prescriptions for various anabolic steroids such as testosterone, nandrolone, oxandrolone and stanozolol; human growth hormone; and ancillary medications such as HCG, Clomid and Nolvadex from July 2001 through October 2004 for clients of his “personal fitness consulting business.”
Weiser advertised his services on various bodybuilding forums and found many customers who felt that they were legally obtaining anabolic steroids. After all, they received a prescription for the bodybuilding medications which they could take to their local pharmacy. There would be no legal risks with a prescription for steroids, would there?
Operation Raw Deal was the largest steroid law enforcement action in the history of the United States; it resulted in steroid busts involving 56 underground labs including Texstar Labs, Phalco Labs, Powerline Labs, Superior Labs, Medline Pharmaceuticals and Pacific Rim Labs. The steroid busts had a significant impact on underground steroid labs in the United States. But the United States exterted their heavy-handed political influence on other countries to adopt similar law enforcement actions against steroid users and steroid dealers. The nine other countries that worked in conjunction with the United States during Operation Raw Deal were Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Thailand.
Australia has been one of the leading cheerleaders of United States steroid law. They worked closely with the United States during Operation Raw Deal and executed their own large-scale steroid law enforcement action dubbed Operation Kasha
Mercedes Coghen, the Spanish Olympic Committe bid chief, is aggressively lobbying to create national steroid laws in Spain consistent with anti-doping rules used by the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Organization (”Spain’s anti-doping drive boosts Madrid bid,” August 14).
“We needed to have a (anti-doping) law that is in the same line as the International Olympic Committee. They (sports authorities) have been working very, very hard on this and this is very good for Madrid 2016,” Coghen told Reuters in an interview.
Spain has seen its fair share of steroid and doping scandals involving steroid doctors collaborating with athletes and allegedly monitoring their use of performance enhancing drugs. Spanish authorities hope to rehabilitate their tarnished image to improve Madrid’s chances at winning the bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games. An aggressive anti-doping effort, including attempts to legislate steroids and PEDs out of sports, is apparently a major part of this initiative.
Bruce Douthit, MD of the Baylor Medical Center at Frisco revealed himself as a secret weapon in the fight against steroid use by teenagers in high schools and steroid use in sports at the Texas Steroid Summit. He guaranteed that he could simply look at an athlete and determine whether they are using banned or illegal anabolic steroids (”Summit in Frisco to address dangers of steroids,” August 10).
But I guarantee you, if I could walk through the school and pick the athletes there to be tested, my positive rate would be a whole lot higher, because I can look at them and tell whether they’ve been doing it.
I have been corresponding with Jason Trahan of the Dallas Morning News to reach a better understanding of the T:E ratio and what it really means. I felt Trahan’s interpretation of the T:E ratio was misleading.
Mr. Jacobs had more than five times the amount of testosterone in his system than allowed by standard sports testing.
The T:E ratio was indeed over five times the 4:1 ratio permitted by the World Anti-Doping Agency. But Jacobs did NOT have five times the normal levels of testosterone in his body. And Jacobs did NOT have five times the normal level of testosterone glucuronide (TG) in his urine either.
Does the David Jacobs’ T:E ratio provide evidence of seriously elevated testosterone levels?
Coram has now been stripped of her title and banned from the organization due to her choices as we are serious when it comes to our drug testing procedures and want to keep not only a natural stage but a healthy stage too.
Rick Collins and Mike DiMaggio of Collins, McDonald and Gann recently reported the drug test results of Julie Coram conducted by a legitimate anti-doping organization.
…Julie Coram was subjected to an impromptu drug test by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES), the testing body responsible for administering drug testing under the Canadian BodyBuilding Federation’s (CBBF) anti-doping program. The results are in, and Ms. Coram tested negative for all prohibited methods and substances.
Brian W. Jeffery aka “The Iron Bull” was sentenced to 16 months in prison and 3 years probation for selling anabolic steroids over the internet. Jeffery imported raw steroid powder from China and converted it to oral and injectable steroids in an underground lab (UGL) in Arizona. He sold the steroid products under the label “Superior Labs” and advertised the sale of steroids to bodybuilders on various internet message boards including Getanabolics.com (”Superior Labs for Superior People”) . Jeffery has been detained since his arrest on September 27, 2007. He pleaded guilty to one count of steroid distribution on May 5, 2008
It is never advisable to store anabolic steroid tablets, vials, and/or related paraphernalia in your automobile even if it is hidden in your glove compartment. A simple traffic misdemeanor could lead to the discovery of your steroid stash (especially if you unknowingly waive your rights during a traffic stop and allow police to search your vehicle). Instead of a simple speeding ticket and/or traffic misdemeanor, you could be facing a steroid possession or steroid distribution charge.
Even if you never speed and always obey posted traffic signs, you never know when a possum might dart out on the road in front of you leading to unforeseen consequences
When Richard Janeczko, Australian Customs national investigations manager, intercepted 80 kilograms of anabolic steroid powder in Sydney in June 2008, he immediately suspected that Australian Olympic athletes were the intended recipients of these steroids even though absolutely NO link with Australian athletes had been uncovered.
But when Australian Customs intercepted 150 bottle bottles of testosterone and Deca Durabolin disguised as “Gay Lube Oil,” Janeczko was quick to emphasize how unlikely it would be for Australia’s Olympic athletes to use steroids marketed as “Gay Lube Oil” (”Gay lube oil contained banned steroids,” July 30).
“The bulk of the people we investigate are actually not elite sports people. The people that want to enhance their image either gym people, security guards, bikies.”
It is thought that Janeczko believes Australian athletes only use steroids with names like “British Dragon” and “Animal Power” with bulldogs, horses, bulls, dragons (and of course kangaroos) on the labels.
