“Muscle profiling” is the practice of identifying suspected anabolic steroid users based simply on their appearance, then arresting them on that basis and forcing them to submit to urine tests. If they test positive for banned performance enhancing drugs, they’re charged with doping as a crime. It seems quite subjective and non-scientific, and to American…
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…
An article by reporter Ian Gerard published in The Australian supports a growing body of research regarding the profile of the typical user of anabolic steroids — research that “challenges the conventional wisdom that steroid users are angry young men prone to outbursts of fury.” The survey, funded by the Australian government, found that a majority had…
HBO Real Sports aired a segment recently entitled “The Contrarian View” about anabolic steroids. Armen Keteyian, who has been reporting on illegal substances in sports for the past five years, investigates the belief held by some scientists that steroids, when properly administered, cause no harm in mature adult males (the segment emphasizes that the serious…
A new bill, S. 1137, introduced May 26, 2005 by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) would add DHEA to the list of federally controlled anabolic steroids. Introducing the bill, he said: “Yet as I speak, on the shelves of health stores across the country, sits one anabolic steroid that can be bought by anyone, at any…
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…
A view of the criminalization of anabolic steroids from the United Kingdom. Jason Lowther’s provocative article concludes that misguided anti-steroid legislative efforts are doing more harm than the drugs themselves.
“Roid Rage”? In what is the most comprehensive and objective review on the subject, Dr. Jack Darkes examines the psychological effects of anabolic steroids in a myth-busting four-part article.
