This is interesting news, so are the steroid laws working , are the idiotic busts WORKING ??? are the arrests working ?

200% increase in use of anabolic steroids
Wednesday 31 January 2007

The number of people using anabolic steroids and other illegal substances to boost their physique or sporting performance has gone up by 200% to 150,000 over the past four years, says the Dutch doping authority. The authority warns that the users, mainly young men, are risking their health by taking enormous quantities of illegal, and often contaminated, performance boosters

This is in “ductchland” LOL but imagine the USA, even worse really if you ask me.  I think steroid use has increased 1000% in the USA BECAUSE of all the news about it! Not even kidding.

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The steroid bust stories from below , this guy was busted for selling steroids

 credited to the WSAW

they didn’t seem to do a bias coverage, just stated what they knew, showed some pics, not much steroid bashing - pretty impressive journalism (somewhat unbias) for once

Marshfield Man Charged with Four Felonies Stemming From Steroid Bust
Posted: 6:29 PM Jan 23, 2007
Last Updated: 7:21 PM Jan 23, 2007
Reporter: WSAW Staff
The Marshfield man accused of being behind a $225,000 steroid ring is now being charged.

Kyle Bredl, 20, made his initial appearance in Portage County court today.

Bredl is charged with four felonies, including possession and delivering a controlled substance.

Each charge carries a $10,000 fine and a six-year jail sentence.

Bredl’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.

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UPDATE: Street Value of Steroid Bust at $250,000; Suspect Charged
Street Value of Steroid Bust At $250,000; Suspect Charged
Posted: 3:43 PM Jan 16, 2007
Last Updated: 7:15 PM Jan 16, 2007

The Marshfield man arrested in what Police Chief Joe Stroik says is the largest drug bust in Wood County is now charged.

Police found the drugs at the home of 20-year-old Kyle Bredl on Thursday.

He appeared in court today and is charged with delivery of controlled substances and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

The judge authorized he be held on a $5000 signature bond.

Bredly is scheduled to make his inital court appearance on January 23.

Between October 2006 and January 11, 2007, authorites say he sold steroids to an undercover officer in Stevens Point three times and once in Marshfield. They say about $10,000 worth of steroids were bought, $6000 of which occurred on January 11.

After his arrest, a box of steroids ready to be shipped outside Wisconsin was found in his vehicle.

His residence at 909 Western Street in Marshfield was then searched. Police there say they found a variety of steroids in liquid, powder and capsule form. They originally estimated the street value of those steroids to be at least $120,000. However, after identifying further bulk substances, they now believe the value may be $250,000.

Packaging and processing materials were also found.

The investigation has been linked to countries including Canada and China, as well as other states.

“He was getting it from quite a distance,” says Stoik. “He certainly could have been selling it to anywhere in the United States or further.”

Authorities say three search warrants were executed in Missoula, Montana over the weekend. One man was arrested on steroid-related charges.

Some of the anabolic steroids discovered include Methandrostenolone, Stanozolol and Oxymetholone. All three are considered Schedule III drugs and fall under control of the Wisconsin Uniform Controlled Substances Act.

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This is given to Anthony Roberts as a credit, over on his blog but I figured it needs a repost badly

Recent Bust….and who to avoid because of those busts…
Well…this is the kind of thing I really never like to report about in my blog. In my perfect world, anabolic steroids would be legal, and people would use them under a doctor’s supervision. But that’s my own fantasy, and as much as I work towards steroid law reform, it’s not reality yet. What is reality is that there are many people (the majority) who are unable to obtain steroids legally, and that means that every so often somebody gets arrested. When that happens, often it sends ripples of busts throughout the community. We’ve seen several such busts lately, and I don’t think that we’ve seen the last of them. At the bottom of my blog will be 2 links to the most recent bust which has been the catalyst for all of the other recent ones.

Interestingly, in this most recent case (just play the video at the bottom of this blog to see it)… the authorities chose to show (on the news) the stuff they confiscated. And since they’ve done that, we can take a little peek at what products were confiscated. If I were concerned for my own freedom (and I’m not, because I operate totally legally)…I’d avoid every UG which had a product confiscated by this particular bust. Watch the video and read the names off the bottles…and you may want to avoid those labs for awhile.

And in this case, there was even a significant amount of research chems confiscated, and I would avoid that company as well (watch the video and you’ll be able to spot the research chems which were confiscated…I believe the one they do a closeup on was a thyroid med). Clearly the fact that those products were confiscated tells us that the authorities are looking at those items as having been purchased by this particular person with the intent to be sold or used by humans, in conjunction with anabolic steroids (in this case). And it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the authorities have confiscated this person’s computer and such as well…and will most likely find e-mails and ordering details from this particular company to this dude who was busted…and that may be all they need to start seriously looking at this research chem company very closely. I wouldn’t want to be one of their customers right about now (or ever, really).

So do yourself a favor…watch the video(s), make note of the UGs and companies involved, and do what you think is appropriate to keep yourself safe. I think avoiding them…and especially avoiding the research chem company from the bust…would be prudent.

I don’t want to see anyone else going to jail, but especially not over research chems!

http://www.wsaw.com/news/headlines/5328632.html

http://www.wsaw.com/news/headlines/5220546.html

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I wonder, you know, like these government guys have anything better to do? I mean give me a break

can’t you leave baseball and steroids ALONE! god, how long will this shit go on

so they juice up, hit the stack, poped the cherry, hell 1/2 of the government snorted coke, and??? who’s questioning that

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Baseball’s Steroids Taint Gets Hall of Fame Test With McGwire

By Danielle Sessa

Mark McGwire’s performance on Capitol Hill in 2005 may have more to do with his chances of being voted into baseball’s Hall of Fame than his 583 home runs.

McGwire refused under oath to answer questions from a congressional committee on whether he used steroids. By repeatedly saying “I’m not here to talk about the past,” McGwire raised doubts about his 16-year career, according to a Hall of Fame pitcher who is now a U.S. senator.

“He didn’t handle himself very well,” said Jim Bunning, a Kentucky Republican. “I will be anxious to find out how much influence his performance before the Congress will have.”

Bunning will find out tomorrow when the Baseball Writers Association of America announces the results of balloting for the 2007 Hall of Fame class. Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn probably will lead the tally.

McGwire, 43, is the first player under the steroids cloud to be listed on the ballot. How much support he receives may indicate how Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and others linked to performance-enhancing substances will be judged. McGwire, Bonds and Sosa all have repeatedly denied drug use.

McGwire’s business manager, Jim Milner, didn’t return messages seeking comment.

Players named on 75 percent of the roughly 575 ballots gain entry to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. A total of 32 players are on this year’s ballot. Ripken, who holds the record for consecutive games played at 2,632, and Gwynn, who won eight batting titles, are likely inductees.

First-Ballot Statistics

Based on career statistics, McGwire might be a first-ballot inductee. The St. Louis Cardinals first baseman became the first player to hit 70 home runs, and his career total ranks seventh. He won the 1987 American League Rookie of the Year with the Oakland Athletics and was picked for 12 All-Star teams.

McGwire’s race with Sosa in 1998 to break Roger Maris’s single-season home run record of 61 helped draw fans after the 1994 players strike. McGwire beat Sosa to Maris’s mark and held the record with 70 for three seasons until Bonds topped him with 73.

In congressional testimony, McGwire’s voice cracked and he frequently reviewed his prepared statement. Sosa, a Dominican Republic native, used an interpreter. That cast doubt about the legitimacy of their chase, said Bob Klapisch, national baseball writer for New Jersey’s Bergen Record newspaper.

“We don’t know what we saw, I don’t know what I covered,” said Klapisch, who said he left McGwire off his Hall of Fame ballot. “There’s too much of a mystery on where the home runs came from. Until we know more about what he did, I don’t see him getting in.”

Steroid Tests

McGwire was never tested for steroids. Major League Baseball didn’t screen for the drugs until 2003, two years after he retired. Lawmakers pressured the sport to test after Jose Canseco and Ken Caminiti admitted taking performance-enhancing substances and charged that usage was rampant throughout baseball. That pressure accelerated after the March 2005 hearing.

Canseco, who alleged in a book he wrote that he injected teammate McGwire with steroids, is also on the Hall of Fame ballot for the first time, along with Caminiti. McGwire denied Canseco’s allegation, telling the news media he never used “steroids or any other illegal substance.”

Bunning, 75, was among those who pushed baseball to strengthen its drug policy and sponsored legislation to mandate testing and penalties in major professional sports. He dropped the bill after baseball agreed to strengthen its policy in November 2005. Baseball and its union first banned steroids in its 2002 labor contract.

`Wiped Out’

Bunning, who pitched a perfect game in 1964 for Philadelphia, said cheaters shouldn’t receive baseball’s highest honor.

“All your records should be wiped out from the day you were found to be using illegal steroids,” he said.

There’s no proof McGwire or Sosa, who last played in 2005, took steroids.

Another congressional witness, Rafael Palmeiro, was suspended for 10 days for failing a steroids test five months after he pointed at lawmakers and stated he never used drugs. Palmeiro wasn’t re-signed by the Baltimore Orioles and hasn’t played since 2005.

The support McGwire receives may show how voters will judge players like Palmeiro and Sosa, said Lyle Spatz, a baseball historian in Boynton Beach, Florida.

“The message they will be sending is that `We kind of recognize that some of the numbers you put up were not comparable with what players before you put up under a more level playing field,”’ said Spatz.

Bonds

Steroids suspicions have dogged Bonds, who’s agreed to return to the San Francisco Giants. In leaked grand jury testimony, he said he might have unknowingly used steroids.

Baseball appointed former Senator George Mitchell last March to investigate steroids. Bunning said he’ll reserve judgment on players until Mitchell’s report comes out or an ongoing federal investigation uncovers evidence.

Until then, some players aiming for the Hall, on the first ballot at least, may have more to worry about than whether their statistics are compelling, Bunning said. “Now they have the added problem of being suspicious.’

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