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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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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During a national-level competition last month, four Indian athletes have tested positive for banned substances.

An Indian newspaper named Rohit Kumar (javelin), Kirpal Singh (discus), and Harvinder Daggar (hammer) for testing positive for anabolic steroids and Anshu Rai (discus) for a stimulant.

From Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

India’s National Anti-Doping Agency confirmed four athletes tested positive at the Federation Cup in the northern city of Patiala from April 21-23 but refused to name the athletes pending B sample tests.

It confirmed three athletes who tested positive for anabolic steroids were given provisional suspensions but there had been no decision on the fourth athlete.

The fourth athlete would face the hearing panel of NADA.

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UFC fighter Sean McCorkle recently remarked the MMA community should level the playing field by doing away with testing for drugs.

This remark from McCorkle, known for his blunt honesty, came after Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal tested positive for steroids and a screening policy was announced by the UFC.

From Mmafighting.com:

“What you end up with is a situation of where the guys who are beating the test, where the guys who can afford to get a doctor to prescribe whatever they want, where the guys who have access to stuff, they have an unfair advantage already,” he said on Tuesday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “I think we’d be pretty naive to think that every person who’s ever taken anything was caught. So I think, to me, in all professional sports, I say, let guys do whatever they want to do and be done with it. I don’t think anybody’s going to make or break their career based on steroids unless you’re talking about longevity, because to my understanding, the majority of them are used for recovery from injury.”

“There’s stuff at [nutrition store] GNC that will make you pee hot for a PED, and it’s not necessarily something that’s going to enhance your performance at all,” McCorkle said. “It’s just something that’s banned.”

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A Fairway man has recently pleaded guilty in Kansas City federal court for conspiring to distributing more than $1.3 million worth of anabolic steroids between 2008 and 2010.

The 52-year-old Scott Lofquist and Maryland doctor Rodney Baltazar allegedly conspired to illegally distribute 1.3 million units of steroids

From Kansascity.com:

Baltazar, a doctor of osteopathy, is expected to plead guilty Thursday, prosecutors said.

The men allegedly sold the drugs to those trying to reverse the course of aging and to bodybuilders and athletes seeking to improve their performance.

According to court records, the doctor did not see the patients in person while allegedly writing the prescriptions.

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Players from the NBA, for the first time, have given their consent to offseason testing for performance enhancing drugs.

The league, in the past, did not tested players during its July-September offseason.

From Guardian.co.uk:

The memo was less clear about testing for human growth hormone, saying only that a committee would study the “possibility of an HGH testing program.” NBA spokesman Mike Bass, however, insisted that both sides agreed to HGH blood testing, subject to the process being validated by a “neutral committee of experts.” It wasn’t immediately clear who would be on that panel.

Major League Baseball and its players recently agreed to start HGH testing in spring training. The National Football League’s new labor contract also included a provision for HGH testing as soon as this season but only once the players’ union approves the process. That hasn’t happened, in part because the union says it needs more information about the test.

NBA players will be tested up to twice during the offseason for steroids and performance enhancing drugs beginning in the 2012-13 season, as per a memo.

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After refusing a license to fight in California in the summer of 2009, the California State Athletic has granted the license now to the heavyweight mixed martial artist Josh Barnett.

A former UFC heavyweight champion, Barnett, was denied the license in the past after he tested positive for anabolic agents.

From Espn.go.com:

Barnett, a former UFC heavyweight champion, was originally denied after testing positive for anabolic agents leading up to a scheduled bout against Fedor Emelianenko in Anaheim, Calif.

Speaking in front of the commission at Monday’s special hearing, Barnett denied ever taking anabolic steroids. He claimed a positive test in Nevada in 2002 came as a result of tainted supplements.

“At the time drug testing was relatively new and the state of the supplement industry was a bit like the wild West,” Barnett said. “The supplements I took in 2002 were reclassified as anabolics in 2004, but at the time they were legal.”

He also said he did not use steroids prior to the Emelianenko fight, when the CSAC-issued urinalysis revealed Drostanolone metabolites in his system.

Barnett however blamed the positive test in 2002 as a result of tainted supplements and said he never used anabolic steroids.

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A ban of two years has been imposed on Surya Prasad Sharma of India after testing positive for an anabolic steroid.

The doping incident has once suggested that the use of anabolic steroids is still prevalent in the circles of professional sports despite claims made by government and anti-doping agencies.

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

FINA says Sharma had traces of stanozolol in a sample given at a competition in Trivadrum, India.

India’s national anti-doping agency imposed a two-year ban which expires in November 2013.

Sharma’s case is among a series of doping suspensions involving steroids handed down in recent months to Indian athletes across several Olympic sports.

The ban of Sharma will expire in November 2013.

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A Pittsfield man is scheduled to be sentenced later this month after he pleaded culpable to 18 drug- and gun-related charges.

The Berkshire County Drug Task Force raided Cedar Street home of Sean M. Begley last July and discovered 205 bags of heroin, 53 vials of anabolic steroids, a small amount of cocaine, and three unlicensed handguns, along with ammunition.

From Berkshireeagle.com:

Begley was cooperative with police during the raid, according to Assistant Berkshire District Attorney Richard M. Locke. Begley told police he was addicted to heroin and was selling the drugs to pay for his habit.

He pleaded guilty to possession of heroin with intent to distribute, three counts each of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, improper storage of a firearm, illegal ownership of a firearm, six counts of possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card, possession of cocaine (second offense), and possession of anabolic steroids.

Judge John A. Agostini said Begley would likely be ordered to serve a three- to four-year state prison sentence followed by five years of probation.

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A dealer of steroids who was sentenced to prison has got relief from a federal judge in Mobile.

In January, Ashley Dewayne Rivers was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge William Steele to five months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute anabolic steroids but has now reduced his term to probation.

From Blog.al.com:

The Monroe County doctor, who pleaded guilty in the case, received a probation sentence last month. Vann’s filing offers no details about Rivers’ cooperation. It asks that Steele reduce the defendant’s sentence to five years’ probation.

The motion for a reduced sentence came just hours after Steele had denied a request by defense attorney James Robinson to change the sentence to probation. Steele wrote in his order that he lacked jurisdiction to change the punishment. That had to come from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In his letter to Steele, Robinson asked that his client be allowed to serve his sentence on probation so that he could work and help support his wife, their four children and his handicapped brother.

The judge however agreed to a request by the U.S. Attorney’s Office to change the sentence to probation of five years.

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