As part of the initiatives for cutting the growing misuse of the drugs among young people, Border officials would be able to seize imports of anabolic steroids.

In response to warnings about the increasing popularity and easy availability of anabolic steroids online, the new legislation on anabolic steroids is being introduced.

From Gponline.com:

Cumbria GP Dr Euan Lawson, who has an interest in the risks associated with drug misuse, welcomed the announcement. But he said such measures needed to be supported by strong harm-reduction messages.

The government’s announcement of new legislation comes in response to recommendations in a report issued last year by the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).

The ACMD said legislation needed to be introduced to prevent importation of anabolic steroids. It also said the National Treatment Agency (NTA) needed to recognise infection risks faced by users of anabolic steroids. But it advised against changing the legal status of anabolic steroids.

‘It is encouraging that the government have accepted almost all the ACMD’s recommendations and haven’t chosen to criminalise and marginalise anabolic steroid users directly,’ Dr Lawson said. ‘There is a real need for reliable, credible and consistent health information for steroid users.’

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The face of performance enhancing drug and appearance enhancing drug use among teenagers is not necessarily who you think, as per a recent guest speaker at Logan-Rogersville High School.

“The fastest growing group of high school steroid users are freshman girls,” said Don Hooton Jr., director of business development for the Taylor Hooton Foundation.

From Southcountymail.com:

The Taylor Hooton Foundation was founded in 2004 following the death of Hooton’s brother, who had been using two kinds of steroids to increase his chances of being his baseball team’s top pitcher.

Hooton addressed a student assembly Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 31; a second presentation was held that night for parents.

“If we’d educated ourselves, we would’ve known what was going on,” Don Hooton Sr. said in a video included in the presentation. “We never knew to equate this abnormal behavior as something other than ‘normal’ teenage behavior.”

“Not the kind of kid you think of doing something like this,” he told the students. Overachievers, though, are at high risk of being susceptible to performance- and appearance-enhancing drugs. “They think they are doing something healthy, getting their body in better shape.”

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Federal authorities have charged Axis Labs LLC of Centennial with a criminal count of mail fraud on allegations it illegally sold mail-order supplements containing anabolic steroids.

Axis Lab was charged recently in U.S. District Court in Denver by prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Colorado.

From Bizjournals.com:

Axis Labs is accused of “being involved” in the making and selling a muscle-building and weight-loss product called Monster Caps, which the company purported was a dietary supplement that didn’t need to be prescribed by a doctor.

Monster Caps actually contained undeclared synthetic anabolic steroids and were intended “to affect the structure and function of the human body,” which made the product a regulated drug needing Food & Drug Administration approval to be sold, investigators alleged.

“It is critically important that consumers know the contents of what they are consuming,” said John Walsh, U.S. Attorney for Colorado, in a press release. “In this case, the product contained synthetic anabolic steroids, and because of its potential for harm, it was a prescription drug that could only be dispensed pursuant to a valid prescription.”

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Colts guard Jaimie Thomas has been suspended for four games by the NFL after he was found violating the anabolic steroids and related substances policy.

The Colts and the league did not say what prohibited substance he tested positive for.

From Espn.go.com:

Thomas was a seventh-round selection by the Colts in the 2009 draft and played in eight games with Indianapolis in 2010. He was placed on IR on Aug. 19 this year with a back injury.

Also Wednesday, the Colts placed defensive tackle Eric Foster and rookie offensive tackle Ben Ijalana on injured reserve, ending their seasons.

Foster dislocated his right ankle in a gruesome scene during Monday night’s loss at Tampa Bay.

“Practice will go along this week and we’ll see where we are. We do have a lot of possibilities and some of them are too endless to go through,” coach Jim Caldwell said Wednesday. “It’s just the way it is. You take a look at where you are and adjust accordingly.”

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A man who was previously accused of being one of the biggest prescription drug dealers in Levy County has been arrested on a new, rarely used charge.

Larry Andy Meeks Jr., 29, of 9750 NW 60th Ave. in Chiefland, was charged with possession of anabolic steroids.

From Gainesville.com:

Meeks was initially arrested April 7 by the Levy County Sheriff’s Office Drug Task Force for two counts of sale with intent to distribute and two counts of possession with intent to sell prescription pills (oxycodone).

While executing a search warrant at Meeks’ home, task force members said they seized some drugs, weapons and ammunition, along with a large amount of cash and four vials of clear liquid and a syringe. The liquid substance was sent to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement laboratory to be analyzed.

The prescription drug dealer was arrested again after the task force was notified that the liquid was Trenbolone enanthate, an anabolic steroid.

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A traditional Chinese medicine is to be blamed for the biggest case of doping in FIFA history, according to North Korean officials.

This was said after three North Korean footballers at the women’s World Cup tested positive for banned steroids.

From Abc.net.au:

In a bizarre explanation for the failed drugs test, North Korean officials claim the steroids were accidentally taken with traditional Chinese medicines based on musk deer glands.

The officials say the remedy was used to treat players who had been struck by lightning at a training camp in June.

FIFA’s chief medical officer Jiri Dvorak says it is the first time the substance has ever been discovered.

It is the biggest case of doping at a major event that FIFA has ever dealt with and the first since Diego Maradona in 1994.

The incident brought total in the squad caught up in the scandal to five.

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Needles and cotton balls, claimed to include DNA of Roger Clemens, were faked, according to prosecutors.

Brian McNamee, the former trainer of Clemens, claimed that he used to inject the star pitcher with anabolic steroids.

From Post-gazette.com:

Assistant U.S. attorney Steven Durham revealed the results during opening arguments in Clemens’ trial on charges of lying to Congress about using performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens’ attorney Rusty Hardin responded that he won’t dispute the needles contain Clemens’ DNA and steroids, but accused the trainer Brian McNamee of “mixing” it up.

“He manufactured this stuff,” Hardin told jurors. “Roger Clemens‘ only crime was having the poor judgment to stay connected with Brian McNamee.”

Hardin said steroids would have been so “incredibly inconsistent with his career and beliefs that there’s no way he would have done it.”

Clemens has said that the only things McNamee ever injected him with were the common local anesthetic lidocaine for his joints and vitamin B-12 to ward off flu viruses and stay healthy. But Durham said neither substance was found on the needles or cotton swabbed with his blood stains.

“It’s a fact of life that sometimes when people reach the mountain, there is an unwillingness to give them equal consideration when people come down on them,” Hardin said. “And that’s what happened with Roger.”

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According to officials, decision by the Breeders’ Cup for banning the use of Laxis for its year-end races is likely to embolden other organizations that are against the raceday use of the drug.

The ban would be applied to the five races for 2-year-olds in the 2012 championships and all 15 races for the 2013 event.

From Drf.com:

Lasix, a diuretic that is used to treat bleeding in the lungs, is legal in every racing jurisdiction in the United States and Canada. It is banned, however, in every other major racing jurisdiction in the world, and the North American policy has been criticized consistently by participants in international racing, who cite its perception as a performance enhancer.

It remains unclear whether the ban by Breeders’ Cup will have an immediate impact on the willingness of state racing commissions to tackle the subject, especially in light of industry-wide talks about the issue at a conference in June. Following the conference, the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium, a research group that has a cross-section of industry stakeholders on its board, was given the task of developing an overall policy.

Supporters of a ban include the Jockey Club, the racetrack trade group Thoroughbred Racing Associations, the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, and the Association of Racing Commissioners International, an umbrella group for state racing commissions. But horsemen remain opposed and contend Lasix is the only treatment proven to reduce the severity and frequency of bleeding in the lungs, a condition that affects all horses who exercise strenuously.

“Breeders’ Cup can obviously decide what rules they want to adopt for their event,” Bellocq said. “The fact remains that the [June conference] clearly showed that this is not a black-and-white issue. We’re still focused on working with all these groups on a policy that’s best for U.S. racing,” Remi Bellocq, the executive director of the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association.

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