A controversial Internet documentary on steroid use is receiving great online viewership, generating both favorable and negative feedbacks from Netizens. Currently broadcasting its 7th episode, Steroids Saved My Life stars recent film graduate Peter Brown, an ectomorph, whose goal is to enhance his physical appearance with the use of anabolic-androgenic steroids.

The 12-part Internet series, which debuted August, involve director/producer Nenad Barjaktarovic, cinematographer/editor Shane Smith, and advertising/publicity supervisor Youssef El-Khoury, and the guinea pig himself Peter.

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Peter puts himself in front of the camera, recording his transformation from a lanky guy to a macho and aggressive dude. Peter is 6’1″ and has a starting weight of 138 lbs. His goal weight is 180 lbs and he currently weighs in at 158 lbs. A weight increase of 20 lbs in seven weeks? Not bad.

According to their official site, the team is practicing caution while doing their ‘experimental’ film.

“With any supplement or drug there are always positive and negative attributes. I am being closely monitored by my family doctor to make sure I am in good health,” Peter says. “Our main goal is to get me healthy and fit, to develop proper eating and exercise routines with long-term benefits.”

The cast and crew are happy with the outcome of the series so far.

“We have found that whether people agree or disagree with steroid use they are still watching the show, still interested to see where the story goes and that’s what is important,” Peter says.

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The indictments against Signature Pharmacy were dismissed by a New York state judge on Thursday because prosecutors mishandled the case.

According to USA Today, Albany Judge Stephen Herrick described the case as ‘complex and unwieldy’ and blamed the county prosecutors for the case being dropped.  The judge said the prosecutors provided incomplete information and inadequate instruction to grand jurors and that the prosecutors “have impaired the integrity of the grand jury proceedings to such a degree that a dismissal is warranted.”

Herrick added that the charges against the five people involved in the case were not well defined. The defendants – Stan and Naomi Loomis (husband-wife owners of Signature Pharmacy), pharmacist Michael Loomis and associates Kirk Calvert and Anthony Palladino – were charged with 31 felony and two misdemeanor counts.

Defense attorney Amy Tingley welcomed the news.

“The game’s over,” said Tingley. “My clients are relieved that they can put this behind them and move on with their lives. After 20 months, (prosecutors) failed to put up a case that could even proceed to trial. We were always confident that we could prevail once it got to a jury, but the judge found there weren’t even grounds to continue the case.”

Herrick’s ruling bars Albany County District Attorney David Soares from filing new charges against the defendants.

Signature Pharmacy is an Orlando-based company which advertised itself as a cutting edge drug provider in women’s health, offering customized medical solutions to its customers suffering from vitamin and hormone deficiencies. The company, however, was suspected of engaging in steroid production and distribution activity, and its alleged customers included several famous athletes from NFL and MLB.  Federal authorities reported that Signature Pharmacy supplied more than $10 million worth of illicit drugs in New York alone. Raids had been conducted in several Signature pharmacies in Florida.

The USA Today article provides further details on this news:

Since January 2007, Soares’ office has indicted 22 people linked to nine pharmacies or so-called wellness centers, most based in Florida. Seventeen have pleaded guilty, including Anthony Forgione, whose plea deal on three felony counts of distributing a controlled substance was accepted Thursday. Charges against two defendants, Steven and Karen Lampert of Nanuet, N.Y., were dropped in November 2007.

Thursday’s decision has no effect on those who have taken pleas.

“We have received the decision issued by Judge Herrick this morning regarding the five Signature defendants,” Soares said in a statement. “We do not agree and are appealing this decision.”

Rodney Harrison, a safety for the NFL’s New England Patriots, was suspended by the league for four games last season for violating its policy on banned substances. He purchased human growth hormone (HGH) from a wellness center in Florida connected to the investigation, Chris Baynes, an Albany County assistant district attorney told The Boston Globe last year.
Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Wade Wilson was suspended for five games and fined $100,000 by the NFL after it learned through the investigation that Wilson, while a member of the Chicago Bears’ staff, had purchased a banned substance from a company that later was targeted.

Soares and members of his office also met with investigators for former Sen. George Mitchell, who was tapped by Major League Baseball to investigate performance-enhancing drug use in that sport.

Last December’s Mitchell Report alleged St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Rick Ankiel, Cleveland Indians pitcher Paul Byrd and former major leaguers Jay Gibbons and Jason Grimsley received shipments of HGH from Signature. The report also said New York Mets reliever Scott Schoeneweis and St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Troy Glaus received shipments of steroids.
None of the players were punished by Major League Baseball.

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So it seems the signature pharmacy steroid bust has come to an end.  As far as facts go, the pharmacy was doing everything legal, they had doctor prescriptions, they had phone consultations with doctors and they did help people who needed hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

Let’s hope this signature pharamcy case is a lead for the feds to leave steroids alone, because prosecuting steroids is not black and white anymore, and judges aren’t putting up with BS anymore as they used to.  Let’s hope that anabolic steroids will now go on the backburner of “drug” busts.  With probable budget cuts in the coming years due to huge deficits, let’s hope steroids are left alone to be underground as they have been for over 40 years.

A judge threw out criminal indictments against the central figures in a wide-ranging national steroids investigation on Thursday, citing a series of blunders and missteps by prosecutors for the Albany County district attorney, P. David Soares.

Mr. Soares’s investigation, which began three and a half years ago, has spanned at least four states and involved at least seven federal and state agencies. It has so far resulted in 17 guilty pleas from people who prosecutors alleged were involved in distributing steroids and other performance enhancers to thousands of customers around the country, including sports stars and other celebrities.

But Judge Stephen W. Herrick, of Albany County Court, found that mistakes by the prosecution had prejudiced the case against five people associated with Florida-based Signature Pharmacy, which prosecutors had alleged was the supplier of at least $10 million worth of controlled substances sold to customers in New York. They are Naomi Loomis and Robert Loomis, the husband and wife who own the pharmacy; Mr. Loomis’s brother, Kenneth Michael Loomis, a pharmacist at the company; and two former employees, Kirk Calvert and Tony Palladino.

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The upcoming intense presidential election is one of the reasons why Victor Conte’s book is not telling anything until 2009. Another intervention is Shane Mosley’s legal offensive against the former BALCO chief.

From the New York Daily News:

Nasty legal warfare has broken out over Victor Conte’s forthcoming tell-all book about his leading role in the world’s biggest steroid conspiracy.

Among the factors is an expensive barrage of defamation litigation launched against Conte by boxer Shane Mosley, one of the athletes whose BALCO doping regimens Conte promises to describe in detail, and Mosley’s threats to sue the book’s publisher.

Conte admits that Mosley’s defamation suits are a “distraction”. According to Conte, he has devoted anecdotal reports on Mosley regarding the boxer’s used of performance-enhancing drugs in Straight Dope. Conte says that Mosley knew “exactly and precisely what he was doing” and had used both “the cream” and “the clear”, both designer drugs then. Mosley, however, claims that he thought the products he was supplied with by BALCO were legal.

Mosley is represented by the notorious New York attorney Judd Burstein.

The most recent of Burstein’s actions against Conte is a motion filed Wednesday asking a U.S. District Court in California to sanction Conte’s defense attorney for submitting what Burstein called an “outrageous and entirely frivolous” motion to recover $75,654 in attorney fees from a defamation suit that Burstein initiated and withdrew.

Burstein rejected Lyons’ overtures. He has promised to sue Skyhorse and its insurers.

In early August, Mosley’s camp filed a $12 million defamation suit in a New York state court while pulling out a similar complaint in a federal court in San Francisco.

Conte’s attorney, James Wagstaffe, had argued that federal claim violated California’s anti-SLAPP statutes. A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation is a lawsuit or a threat of lawsuit that is intended to intimidate and silence critics by encumbering them with the cost of a legal defense thereby inhibiting their criticism or opposition.

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