Q: In the recent “Captain America” movie, a puny kid becomes a muscled-up superhero through injections of a special “serum.” Doesn’t that sound like a two-hour commercial for gear? A: The film was based on the Marvel Comics character, who was conceived by writer Joe Simon in 1940 as a consciously political creation. World War…
Q: I heard that Toney Freeman was taken into custody by Swedish police and forced to submit to steroid testing for being “too” muscular! Do the Swedes really hate muscle that much? A: The facts: Toney Freeman was touring Sweden to make public appearances. While signing autographs for fans in a shop in the small…
Following up on the discussion of whether anabolic steroids are “cheating” in sports, Rick addresses the different issue of whether steroid use is “cheating” outside the context of competitive athletics — within the context of mature adult “gym rats.” Q: If doping in sports is cheating because it breaks the rules, what about steroid use…
Q: What’s the bottom line – is steroid use safe? A: How do you define “safe”? Let’s explore the different meanings, all in the context of non-medical use by mature adult males (virtually everyone is against teenage use, and the side effects among women may be more profound). In my book Legal Muscle and in…
Q: Do you believe, as many do, that using steroids in sports is cheating? A: The simple answer is yes. Most sports have rules against performance enhancing drugs. The relevant definition of cheating is to deliberately violate rules in order to gain an advantage. While there may be some rules or laws that are so…
Legal Muscle Supplement By Rick Collins, J.D. [(C) 2006, 2008 by Rick Collins, J.D., and Legal Muscle Publishing, Inc., All rights reserved.] When the original edition of Legal Muscle: Anabolics in America was published in late 2002, the topic of anabolic steroids was below the radar screen of the average American. Things are very different…
Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids and Suicide: A Brief Review of the Evidence by Jack Darkes, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Director of Interventions, Alcohol and Substance Use Research Institute, University of South Florida [Reprinted with permission from http://www.mesomorphosis.com/] Discussions of the potential role of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) in suicide surfaced recently when AAS and their use…
This unique site contains extensive information about anabolic steroids with an emphasis on objectivity. Across the top of each page, you’ll see a navigation bar with “Introduction,” “Arrested?,” “Athletes,” and six other words each of which are links to specific topic pages. Above the navigation bar and to the right is a search function —…
Is there a burgeoning epidemic of little girls taking steroids to tone up? The Associated Press says there is, but the truth may surprise you. Read the papers and you’d think that there’s a massive army of juiced-up prepubescent girls terrorizing the playgrounds of America. We can credit Associated Press (AP) reporter Linda A. Johnson…
By the time the torch was extinguished and the dust of Athens had settled at the end of the summer Olympics, a total of 24 athletes had been thrown out of the Games for cheating by the use of performance-enhancing drugs, double the previous record of 12 from the Los Angeles Games in 1984. And…
