NBC Television Series 'Life' Depicts 'Roid Rage' Anti-Steroid Propaganda

The NBC television series “Life” creatively demonized anabolic steroids in the plotline of the recent episode entitled “Everything All the Time.” They producers of “Life” blamed anabolic steroids for murder, roid rage, a suicide attempt, steroid overdose, and even bleeding from the eyes in this bit of anti-steroid propaganda. The “roid rage” scene rivaled and arguably surpassed the classic “Ben Affleck Roid Rage After School Special” in its imaginative, fanciful and fictional portrayal of roid rage. This is an amazing feat in and of itself.

Pro Bodybuilder Jay Cutler Discusses Steroids in Deleted Scene from Steroid Documentary 'Bigger Stronger Faster*'

 IFBB pro bodybuilder and two-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler talks about anabolic steroid use in the sport of bodybuilding in a deleted scene from the steroid documentary “Bigger Stronger Faster.” According to Jay Cutler, '[E]veryone is looking for that edge. You know there are steroids involved in the sport - in bodybuilding - obviously. And that’s the problem with the sport and why it has to get accepted by a lot of society. They look at bodybuilding and they say, ‘oh steroids.’ But they don’t actually understand what goes into the sport. You do what you do to be the best at what you do. You do what you do to win. If you want to call that cheating, fine. But I have the edge. And that’s why I’m the best." Was this a tacit admission of steroid use? Why did Muscletech NOT fire Jay Cutler for talking about steroids when fitness model and former Muscletech spokesperson Christian Boeving was fired for talking about steroid use?

Democratic VP Nominee Joseph Biden Criminalized Anabolic Steroids and Put Steroid Users in Jail

Advocates of steroid law reform are very disappointed that Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama selected Senator Joseph Biden as his vice presidential nominee. Senator Biden was the chief architect of the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990 that criminalized the possession of anabolic steroids for non-medical purposes. Biden also wrote the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 which opened the door for significantly harsher penalties for steroid possession and steroid distribution; this has resulted in the increased prosecution of steroid users over the past few years who are treated as dangerous criminals with the worst penalties for the non-medical use of steroids in history. Senator Biden has been on his anti-steroid crusade for almost two decades.

Maximum Steroid Trafficking Sentences to Double

Congress has unanimously passed the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008 to place strict controls on Internet pharmacies. The bill was named for Ryan Haight, who died at 18 of a drug overdose in 2001 after he obtained Vicodin – not anabolic steroids – over the Internet. The Act creates a new statute for offenses involving dispensing controlled substances by means of the Internet. The law attempts to clarify the laws regarding "rogue" online pharmacies and what constitutes a "valid prescription," and also criminalizes certain advertising conduct in connection with such pharmacies. The Act has far broader implications for steroid trafficking cases in general. Let’s look at the most significant changes. Most importantly, the law increases the maximum sentence for selling anabolic steroids (and other schedule III drugs) from 5 years to 10 years (up to 15 years if use of the drug causes death or serious bodily injury).

Anabolic Steroids Control Act - The Wrong Prescription

According to the body of common knowledge, anabolic steroids are dangerous and deadly drugs. The mainstream media have thoroughly vilified these hormones for several decades. The use by mature adults of any amount of anabolic hormones to enhance physical appearance is invariably labeled anabolic steroid "abuse" and, consequently, the average American lumps the athletic steroid user into the same depraved category as the heroin or cocaine user. Law enforcement agents and prosecutors readily proceed accordingly in furtherance of our national "War on Drugs." Only the most progressive physicians accept the legitimacy of anabolic steroid use for any but the most limited medical purposes. Understandably then, the proposition that our current approach to the non-medical use of anabolic steroids is flawed, failing and in need of reform is provocative to many.

The Chris Benoit Tragedy - Anabolic Steroids, Aggression & Violence

In events like the Chris Benoit family tragedy the alleged perpetrator’s characteristics inevitably suggest hypotheses and the search for confirming evidence begins. Anabolic steroids or anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) were blamed before prescription steroids were found, as researchers and commentators alike called forth the popular roid rage connection. If anabolic steroids are blamed and the richness of these lives ignored, then the opportunity to prevent such rare events goes unrealized. Singling out a drug to blame leads to fiery rhetoric, congressional hearings, prohibition and scare tactics; none of these have succeeded in curbing drug use, especially among those at greatest risk for harm. Most steroid users do not experience negative effects and hence distrust the message and the messengers, perhaps most notably among those who should listen. Research has shown this many times.

Anabolic Steroids and Suicide - Taylor Hooton and Rob Garibaldi

Discussions of the potential role of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) in suicide surfaced recently when AAS and their use among professional athletes were blamed for several suicides of young adult males. These allegations inspired a congressional investigation and renewed anti-steroid rhetoric, but little dispassionate evaluation. The testimony of experts and grieving parents notwithstanding, the role of AAS in suicide is not clear. The recent tragedies of Taylor Hooton and Rob Garibaldi that spurred these investigations involved late adolescent males, yet provoked widespread condemnations of AAS. Problems among adolescent drug users cannot inform issues of adult use (or vice-versa); adolescents are not simply younger adults. Efforts to ascribe such events to a single cause can distract attention from other important indicators that need to be noted.

Signature Pharmacy Steroid Case Dismissed Due to Prosecutor David Soares Incompetence

A judge dismissed the criminal indictments against the principals in the Signature Pharmacy steroid distribution case citing the incompetence of Albany County District Attorney David Soares. Soares is the lead prosecutor for a small county in New York who had taken it upon himself to spend possibly millions of dollars of Albany residents taxpayer money to carry on a nationwide steroid witch hunt dubbed “Operation Which Doctor“. Critics of the steroid witch hunt and voices in Albany law enforcement have long been critical of David Soare’s incompetence. The ruling means that prosecutor David Soares can no longer seek charges against Stan and Naomi Loomis, the Signature Pharmacy owners, pharmacist Michael Loomis or Signature Pharmacy employees Kirk Calvert and Anthony Palladino.

Steroid Witch-Hunt Finds Bodies at Revolution Medical Center

An investigative report claims that anabolic steroids may have caused the deaths of three clients of a Phoenix-based longevity clinic in the past year. The clients purchased anabolic steroids including testosterone, Anadrol and trenbolone from the Revolution Medical Center clinic. Doctors and investigators are trying to prove that the steroid treatment prescribed by Revolution “caused” the suicides and deaths. But the medical examiners in each of the respective cases did not suspect anabolic steroids as a cause of death and did not run a toxicology for them. In fact, the autopsy of Aaron Atchley found clear evidence that his death was due to an accidental prescription drug overdose involving of Xanax, Oxycontin and cocaine!

Steroid Products from Underground Labs Found to Contain Toxic Metals

Most bodybuilders who use anabolic steroids manufactured by underground labs (UGLs) in the United States are primarily concerned with whether or not the product is accurately dosed with the anabolic steroid listed on the label. Some more health conscious steroid users are also concerned about potential health risks arising from the contamination of UGL steroid products with bacteria and/or heavy metals such as lead, tin, mercury and/or arsenic. William Llewellyn, author of the authoritative Anabolics 2007 and editor of Body of Science, recently completed a project designed to help consumers of UGL anabolic steroids to better assess the degree of toxic heavy metal contamination in underground steroids. MESO-Rx has uncovered the identities of the labs that failed the tests. The steroid samples tested were tested at the request of a popular Scandinavian board and obtained on the European black market.

Pro Pharm Labs Pleads Guilty to Steroid Distribution Charges

Bryan Wilson of Pro Pharm Laboratories pleaded guilty to federal steroid distribution and money laundering charges as a result of Operation Raw Deal. Investigators amassed significant evidence in the case including the use of a confidential informant to purchase steroids from “Pro Pharm” as well as video surveillance of April Wilson shipping multiple steroid packages at the local post office. Bryan Wilson was arrested iwhen he picked up approximately one kilogram of steroid powder imported from China.