A personal trainer from Palo Alto will face multiple charges that he sold prescription drugs and narcotics to buyers across the United States of America.

Two search warrants at Perry Mosdromos’ home in Palo Alto and office in Menlo Park were served by the Menlo Park Police Department’s narcotics enforcement team, along with Homeland Security and FBI agents.

From Contracostatimes.com:

A search of his residence revealed tens of thousands of prescription drugs, including Vicodin, Percocet and Valium, according to Menlo Park police Sgt. Eric Cowans. Authorities also discovered thousands of anabolic steroids and several illegal narcotics such as MDMA. Altogether, Cowans estimated the drugs’ street value at more than $250,000.

The investigation into Mosdromos, 46, began when Homeland Security agents intercepted a package containing 499 grams of anabolic steroids and 4,374 Xanax pills before it arrived at a post office box in Menlo Park, according to Cowans. The post office box was then connected with Mosdromos.

Mosdromos, who works as an independent contractor at Peak Performance in Menlo Park, allegedly ordered the drugs from other countries and then repackaged, sold and shipped them to people around the country. Police arrested and booked him into San Mateo County jail on Thursday.

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said Mosdromos has since been released on $25,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned July 10.

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The US Army has filed new charges against the soldier accused of killing 16 villagers in southern Afghanistan in March.

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales consumed alcohol and used steroids during his combat tour, according to the Army.

From Smh.com.au:

According to the charges, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales illegally possessed and used stanozolol, an anabolic steroid that is commonly used by bodybuilders but is banned by many professional sports leagues as a performance-enhancing drug.

The army said he used the drug between January 1 and March 11, when he allegedly shot and killed civilians in the village of Belambay in Kandahar province.

The Army did not revealed the alleged motive for the murders and lawyers of Bales have not acknowledged any wrongdoing on his part.

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According to a statement that was posted on the State Food and Drug Administration’s (SFDA) website, the production, sale, and use of clenbuterol hydrochloride tablets has been banned by China.

The Clenbuterol tablets are primarily used for treating patients with bronchial asthma and have often been used illegally by farmers in China to make their pigs leaner.

From Thirdage.com:

According to the statement, the tablets’ risks, including side effects and potential for abuse, outweigh its benefits. If abused for a lengthy period, clenbuterol tablets can have serious negative effects on cardiopulmonary functions, the SFDA said, citing the results of a review program that has been underway since 2009.

Existing clenbuterol tablets will be destroyed under the supervision of local food and drug authorities.

The ban, however, will not affect patients with bronchial asthma who are currently receiving the tablet form of clenbuterol.

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Patients receiving kidney transplants and withdrawn from corticosteroid-based immunosuppression (CSBI) as early as possible after transplantation have significantly lower fracture rates compared with patients who continue receiving corticosteroids.

This finding was presented by a research presented at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) 2011 Annual Meeting.

From Medscape.com:

Corticosteroids are known to be toxic to osteoblasts, and the drugs are typically given in exceptionally high doses after kidney transplants, potentially causing substantial bone loss, said coauthor Thomas L. Nickolas, MD, from Columbia University Medical School in New York City.

“Kidney transplant patients typically initially get very high intravenous doses of corticosteroids that are tapered down to a high oral dose, then to a small oral dose, by 6 months, but it is in that first 6 months after transplantation when the majority of bone loss occurs,” he explained.

Studies show that the bone loss at the lumbar spine and the hip during that initial 6 months posttransplantation can range from 2% to as much as 10%, he said.

The study was supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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A suspended six-month ban has been handed over to a Central Queensland pharmacist for over-dispensing anabolic steroids to a customer over a period of eight months.

Gladstone pharmacist Russell Smith dispensed 1200 tablets and 286 ampoules of steroids to a single customer, the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal was told.

From Couriermail.com.au:

QCAT deputy president Fleur Kingham, in a just published five-page decision, said the quantity and type of medication dispensed by Mr Smith had the “potential for misuse and abuse”.

“It is well known in the profession that there is an illicit market in their trade,” Judge Kingham said.

The tribunal was told Mr Smith conceded he had engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct.

“(Mr Smith’s) conduct fell below the standard that might reasonably be expected of him by the public and his professional peers,” she said.

“His conduct demonstrated incompetence or lack of adequate knowledge, skill, judgment or care in the practise of his profession.

“He did not question the doctor’s prescriptions, although he had sufficient information to do so,” Judge Kingham said.

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New York Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey recently discussed only his chronicles in detail in memoirs that is about to hit bookstores.

Dickey, author of “Wherever I Wind Up,” discusses finding a syringe in the clubhouse of Texas Rangers in 2001.

From Espn.go.com:

As detailed in the book, Dickey reveals how he felt disgust with the prospect of teammates cheating when he spotted the syringe. He made four appearances for the Rangers during the ’01 season, while primarily pitching for Triple-A Oklahoma City.

“The sight of it makes me cringe, the shiny thin needle lying randomly on the tile floor,” Dickey writes. “My mind races with thoughts about how and why it got there. I know as much about needles as I do about jewelry, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t a sewing needle. I don’t know if this syringe injected a Ranger with insulin or cortisone or B12 or anabolic steroids, though you can hazard a guess when you run through the roster of my muscle-laden teammates.

“I’d never seen a syringe in a baseball clubhouse before. I’ve not seen one since. It may have been used for the most benign of purposes, but the mere sight of it makes me feel as though I am looking straight at Evil — like seeing a weapon somebody left behind at a crime scene.”

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