The illicit drugs policy introduced by the AFL in 2005 emphasized upon confidentiality for avoiding the risk of endangering a player’s health and affected  chances of rehabilitation but it failed to deliver its core objective after Hawthorn’s Travis Tuck was named, fined and suspended.

Tuck was not addicted to drugs but had a mental health issue and will possibly be left betrayed by a policy that was contrived and compromised from birth.

From Theaustralian.com.au:

When the three-strike element of the code was constantly derided by the federal government, Currie, and colleagues Yvonne Bonomo and Martyn Lloyd-Jones went public.

The doctors’ statement read: “While positive tests for performance enhancing drugs (eg steroids) are met with the full force of international regulations and sanctions under the WADA code, the AFL has established the very appropriate and responsible policy of treating all initial findings of illicit, non-performance enhancing drug use as a health problem, with a sophisticated and comprehensive medical intervention as the first response.

“This is completely in keeping with most other workplace employee assistance programs for illicit drug use, and is also directly supportive of the federal government’s own policies, for example as set out in the Talking With Your Kids About Drugs information booklet that was delivered to all Australian families as part of the Tough on Drugs strategy.”

The undiluted arrogance of AFL has surely betrayed Tuck and there are calls to change the illicit drugs policy of the league on an immediate basis.

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The former sprinter, Marion Jones, has signed for the Tulsa Shock, Women’s National Basketball Association team, and expressed hope for launching a new career after she lost five Olympic medals for using steroids and being jailed for lying to federal prosecutors.

Jones spent six months in a federal prison after she lied about steroids and her role in a cheque fraud.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Jones, who was awarded gold medals for winning the 100m, 200m and 4 x 400m relays at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and two bronzes in the long jump and 4x100m, admitted two years ago that she had taken steroids before, during and after the Games and was stripped of her five medals. She also spent about six months in a Texas federal prison for lying about doping and her role in a cheque fraud.

Jones said playing for the Shock is not about her past but instead fulfils her dream of playing basketball against some of the best players in the world.

“The word redemption is not in my vocabulary,” Jones said at a news conference, flanked by the team’s president, Steve Swetoha, and coach Nolan Richardson. “I’m a competitor, I want to play against the best in the world, and I know that I will be doing that.”

Jones may have been successful with athletics but her professional stints affected with serious doping charges are bound to have a negative impact on how sport fans accept her.

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Travis Babbitt, a teen from Blissfield, has received a first-place award for his public service announcement (PSA) about steroids and sports.

Babbitt was given an assignment to make a 30-60 second commercial that would be entered in a competition provided through the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Foundation.

From Lenconnect.com:

Babbitt, 17, made a 30-second video last fall that contains footage of some of his classmates lifting weights. He also included facts on how steroids can affect people who use them.

The assignment led to him taking home an award certificate on March 11 at a banquet in Grand Rapids. There he received first-place recognition in the television Michigan High School Athletic Association Sports PSA category by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Foundation.

“I was excited,” Babbitt said about learning he had won the award. “As soon I found out, I had my phone out, texting people (and) my parents.”

“With everything going on in Major League Baseball with steroids, I thought it would be fitting to do that (topic),” he said.

According to the foundation’s Web site, contents of the winning MHSAA Sports PSA category entries could be used for producing a sportscasting PSA to air statewide.

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The road has been cleared for a possible complete synthesis of the drug used in treating arthritis, cortisone.

A paper will be read before The Chemical Society of London by Robert B. Woodward, professor of Chemistry to make an announcement that he and a research team have completed the first total synthesis of a complete steroid.

From Thecrimson.com:

Steroids are a large group of natural organic substances which have in common a nucleus which includes four rings of carbon atoms. Among the complete steroids are androsterone and testosterone (the male sex hormones) and cortisone, which has recently been used very effectively in the treatment of arthritis, rheumatic fever, and burns.

Many ways have been worked out already for converting one steroid into another.

The starting materials in such interconversions are frequently in limited supply.

Now, with Woodward’s total laboratory synthesis of a steroid from coal tar, it is felt that the starting materials in the interconversions and consequently the desired steroids, will be more available.

Woodward cautioned that none of the medically active steroids have been synthesized as yet and the already developed process may not prove commercially viable.

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The governor of California and former bodybuilding champion, Arnold Schwarzenegger, says super star athletes have no choice but to act as perfect role models besides realizing that use of steroids is the wrong message for kids.

Schwarzenegger added that the message of not using drugs and alcohol has the potential of inspiring young kids.

From NYdailynews.com:

The former world champion body-builder made the comment on CNN’s Sunday news and talk show, “State of the Union,” though he opted not to single out Yankees star Alex Rodriquez, or address the use of steroids among competitors during the “Pumping Iron” era that put Schwarzenegger on Hollywood’s radar screen.

“I think it’s important to get the message out that we should not use drugs. I think we have a certain obligation as athletes to inspire young people. When someone wins an Olympic championship or a boxing championship, whatever it may be, you’re not only a champion, but you’re also an inspirational vehicle for young kids and for people in general to stay fit, to lose weight and all of this,” he said.

Schwarzenegger further added that young kids need to come out clean and the sports ought to be without drugs.

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Sammy Sosa, the former major league baseball star, looks different lately. The star was recently seen with a surprising, comically light skin pigmentation on him that leads to speculation about whether this change in skin color is because of steroids or skin rejuvenation.

The Chicago Tribune quotes Rebecca Polihronis, an acquaintance of Sosa, says that Sosa has gone through a rejuvenation process for his skin.

From Thehollywoodgossip.com:

Many have posited, although they cannot prove it, that steroid use could dramatically increase an individual’s likelihood of becoming symptomatic with vitiligo.

That rare chronic disorder, which causes cells responsible for skin pigmentation to stop functioning, has gained much notoriety because of Michael Jackson.

It was reported in June that Sosa, who rose to fame as prolific home run hitter in the late ’90s, tested positive for steroids in 2003, to the surprise of no one.

It is speculated that the change in skin color could be a possible complication from use of steroids by Sosa during his baseball years.

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Rick Ankiel, the outfielder of St. Louis Cardinals, has been accused of joining the list of athletes associated with a Florida-based investigation into steroids.

Rob Manfred, baseball’s executive vice president of labor relations, said that both sides of allegations will be looked after and didn’t go into the details as of now.

From Sports.espn.go.com:

The New York Daily News reported Friday that Ankiel received a 12-month supply of human growth hormone in 2004 from a Florida pharmacy that was part of a national illegal prescription drug-distribution operation, citing records its reporters saw. That Orlando outfit, Signature Pharmacy, has been implicated in a steroids investigation run by Albany County (N.Y.) District Attorney P. David Soares, which has resulted in 22 indictments and several Florida clinic raids.

Hours after the report was made public, Sports Illustrated reported on its Web site that steroids were shipped to the address of Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Troy Glaus in 2003 and 2004.

Major League Baseball asked Friday to meet with Ankiel and Glaus.

The Daily News reported that Ankiel’s HGH prescriptions, including Saizen and Genotropin, were signed by Florida physician William Gogan and were provided through a Palm Beach Gardens clinic called The Health and Rejuvenation Center, or THARC.

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The former Braves slugger, David Justice, has denied use of injected steroids and disclosed that he has his fear of needles.

This was after Kirk Radomski told George Mitchell that he sold human growth hormone to Justice; this revelation was made when Mitchell was in charge of the investigation about use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball.

From AJC.com:

Now consider this: Radomski has a recently published book on steroids and baseball. It’s a book with large passages disputed by Mitchell. Which means it’s wise to question anything leaving Radomski’s lips.

“When he said he took me to the airport after we won the World Series, hey, I got my cousins, I got friends who were up there with me, and they all said, ‘That dude didn’t take you to no airport,’ ” said Justice, who did recall Brian McNamee, the former trainer, now famous for saying Roger Clemens was juiced.

Soon after Justice joined the Yankees in 2000, McNamee approached him with HGH. He told the outfielder it would help his various aches and pains.

“I’m having good days and bad days with my sports hernia and groin, and I’ve got the New York Yankees strength coach, who is Dr. McNamee and somebody I thought was a really cool guy, coming to me,” Justice said. “He tells me, ‘This is not steroids. It will not hurt your body. Doctors prescribe this every day. It will help you with the healing of your groin.’

Radomski told ESPN that a box of steroids and HGH were given to Justice during a ride to the airport after the former Braves slugger finished playing for the New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series.

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Cricket is a matter of special pride in Pakistan and cricketers from the country have done their level best to portray a positive image of the country besides providing a source of hope for those whose everyday life is both tedious and joyless.

This is best evident from the fact that Pakistanis literally dance on the street when the Pakistan cricket team wins and burn effigies when the team loses a game.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Mohammad Asif, another of Pakistan’s talented cricketers who, along with three others, is at the centre of the latest betting allegations, is a case in point. At the height of his still-burgeoning career in 2006, Asif was banned for a year after testing positive for a steroid. Two years later, after making an unlikely comeback, he was detained at Dubai airport on suspicion of possessing illegal drugs and only escaped prison thanks to intensive lobbying by the Pakistan government. What athlete in his right mind would be so stupid? Only someone who had escaped a life of obscurity and poverty to discover that, for the privileged few, the boundaries of life were negotiable.

For the rich and powerful, wealth is typically accumulated through graft, not grit. Privileges are bought, not earned. Unsurprisingly, the line between legitimate business and otherwise is practically nonexistent. Ushered suddenly into this hubristic world, is it any wonder so many of our cricketers turn rogue?

It is, however, a breather for the Pakistanis that former World Cup winning captain Younis Khan and Shahid Afridi, both fearless Pathans schooled in the honor code have not been named in the match fixing scandals.

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A centralized, state-managed database that can be accessed by doctors and pharmacists around Arizona, will be storing prescription information of legally sold drugs such as OxyContin, Vicodin, Ritalin, and Ambien.

Dr. Stephen Borowsky, an anesthesiologist and pain-management specialist, said that he is happy to learn that Arizona has finally decided to keep a close eye on medicines that have potential for addiction.

From AZCentral.com:

The program, which debuted in December and is overseen by the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy, is designed to cut down on the persistent problem of prescription-drug abuse. But it also has raised concerns among privacy-rights groups that fear computer hackers or unscrupulous health workers will access patients’ personal information.

State health officials who pushed for the program say they know of no breach of any similar database in another state.

The system, they say, allows physicians and pharmacists to more easily identify “doctor shoppers,” people who visit various doctors to obtain drugs that are potentially addictive.

Pharmacy Board officials remarked that database access is recorded and limited to doctors and pharmacists.

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