A number of reforms designed to curtail the improper prescription, distribution, possession and usage of anabolic steroids, Human Growth Hormone (HGH), and Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) among law enforcement personnel and state and local employees have been announced by Attorney General Paula T. Dow.

“It is important that we strengthen oversight, regulation and investigation in order to discourage the improper use of steroids throughout New Jersey’s law enforcement community and ensure the public’s confidence,” said Dow.

From NJtoday.net:

According to the report, issued by the Study Group, the legitimate medical uses of steroids, HGH and HCG are limited to a very small number of medical conditions. However, because there was little scrutiny until recently of prescription claims filed by law enforcement officers and others receiving steroids, HGH and HCG, the potential for improper prescribing of these substances was high. In addition, the lack of disciplinary action by regulators against physicians who improperly prescribed these substances and the failure to adequately screen and monitor prescription drugs created a recipe for abuse.

The Attorney General’s reforms address three key issues: misuse of anabolic steroids and human growth hormones, improper prescription of these substances by physicians, and increased health care costs linked to such conduct. Dow intends to adopt the following recommendations made in the report.

“Law enforcement holds a special trust based on its authority and must be held to the highest standard of professionalism. These reforms tighten the safeguards against abuse not only by law enforcement, but by other members of public health plans and doctors who improperly prescribe these substances,” remarked Dow.

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Illicit use of HGH (human growth hormone) has become common among young American male weightlifters, according to a new study published in The American Journal on Addictions.

The study also disclosed that illicit use of HGH in this population is often associated with polysubstance abuse involving both performance-enhancing and classical drugs.

From Starglobaltribune.com:

Results found that 27 (12 percent) reported illicit use of HGH and/or its close relative, insulin-like growth factor-I. All of these 27 men had also used anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), and 15 (56 percent) also reported current or past dependence on opioids, cocaine, and/or ecstasy.

These findings suggest that illicit HGH use is common, and is usually associated with abuse of both AAS and ordinary street drugs.

“The long-term risks of high-dose HGH use are little studied, but available evidence suggests that long-term high-dose HGH may have serious medical consequences, including cardiac, endocrine, and respiratory effects, as well as increased risk for certain cancers,” Brennan notes. “Our findings suggest that mounting illicit HGH abuse may represent a dangerous new form of drug abuse with potentially severe public health consequences.”

The researchers were led by Brian P. Brennan, MD, MSc, of McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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Winner of a record seven Cy Young Awards, baseball pitching star Roger Clemens, sat silently in federal court as his trial opened on charges of perjury and obstruction of Congress.

Clemens is facing charges that carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.

From NPR.org:

Clemens remained expressionless as the prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Durham, told the jury that the government had physical proof that the 48-year-old onetime pitching ace had been repeatedly injected with anabolic steroids and human growth hormone.

Clemens, whose fastball was so powerful he earned the nickname “Rocket,” is not charged with using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs. Rather, it is his denial of steroid and HGH use in testimony before a House committee in 2008 that could cost him his freedom. He is charged with six different counts of perjury, making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation into the use of banned substances in baseball.

Clemens said during his congressional testimony, “I’ve been accused of something I’m not guilty of. … I’ve never taken steroids or HGH.”

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A warning was issued by the Major League Baseball (MLB) to major and minor league players last week for stop ingesting deer antler spray.

Baseball players used to felt safe using a deer antler spray as an alternative to steroids with almost no risk of flunking a drug test.

From Sportsillustrated.cnn.com:

Deer antlers? Yes, chemists have figured out that the velvet from immature deer antlers includes insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1, which mediates the level of human growth hormone in the body, and is also banned by MLB and the World Anti-Doping Agency, among others, for its muscle-building and fat-cutting effects.

The antlers are harvested from young deer, ground up and packaged into spray form. The substance is sprayed under the tongue. One manufacturer touts among its benefits “anabolic or growth stimulation,” “athletic performance” and “muscular strength and endurance.”

IGF-1, like HGH, cannot be detected in the urine tests used by baseball. Under the right circumstances, it could be detected in a blood test, but the players association has not agreed to blood testing.

MLB added the product to its list of “potentially contaminated nutritional supplements.”

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In almost all professional and amateur sports, including professional boxing, the use of performance enhancing drugs is on an increase.

These performance enhancement drugs can help sportsmen improve their performance or add extra pounds on that bench press or to get bigger in a shorter period of time.

From Boxingnews24.com:

There are anabolic steroids (medicines: androstenedione, ephedrine, stanozolol and nandrolone just to mention a few) for humans and even for animal use, human growth hormone (HGH, somatrotopine), and design laboratories drugs (tetrahydrogestrinone – THG) that have been used to improve the performance of athletes, but even some food supplements are banned; the hyperbaric chambers could be considered as a non natural way to increase your performance in some cases.

The use of performance enhancement drugs gives an illicit advantage to the user, it is shameful and disgraceful, and in some cases it could be even a coward attitude to take that illicit edge on your opponent.

Some argue that PEDS wont give you the skills but they do will give you extra strength, stamina, resistance, speed and power, so if I am a fighter who has average boxing skills I might be able to improve my physique so much that I could end up beating guys who are better naturally gifted than me and even also the ones who are more skilled than me.

Many successful sportsmen of the past had admitted to using anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs and professional boxing cannot be the exception.

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Performance enhancing drugs that are banned in Olympic sport are being produced and sold in large quantities in China, close to the sites where the Games will be staged.

Human growth hormone (HGH) poses the biggest threat, as it is difficult to detect unless tested for within 24 hours of being taken.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

Despite an attempt by the Chinese government to restrict its unlicensed manufacture, and a complete ban on its export, it took The Sunday Telegraph a little over a day to buy a week’s supply – and then to find another company willing to dispatch much larger quantities to Britain.

China is the world’s biggest manufacturer and supplier of anabolic steroids such as Stanozolol, and of HGH, which increases muscle growth, burns off body fat quickly and speeds up the healing of injuries.

“Any country that is seen to be producing designer steroids and other substances that enhance performance is a concern,” said Andy Parkinson, of UK Sport’s drug-free unit.

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The National Football League (NFL) will be insisting on a mandatory Human Growth Hormone (HGH) testing in the next labor deal with the players, according to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

The NFL Commissioner said the NFL needs to do more to ensure that banned substances are kept out of the sport.

From Playerpress.com:

HGH is a protein-based peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals which affects the growth hormone on the tissues of the body and is described as an anabolic just as steroids are.

It is used by athletes in an attempt to enhance their athletic performance although recent studies have not been able to support claims that HGH actually improves athletic performance.

In the United States, HGH is only available legally with a prescription from a doctor.

The use of HGH by NFL players is prohibited by the league, but they do not currently test for it.

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Best known for his role as David Hasselhoff’s son Hobie on Baywatch, actor Jeremy Jackson, could look incredible in a bathing suit but TMZ has reported that his results are far from normal.

Apparently, his rock hard body is heading him to “Celebrity Rehab” to get on the right path.

From Splashnewsonline.com:

Jackson is reportedly addicted to injecting himself with HGH (Human Growth Hormone), anabolic steroids and countless other fitness supplements he fears are destroying his body.

While he might appear to be one of the healthiest contestants on the show, Jackson fears his fitness may lead to his flounder.

The disclosure has once again highlighted the fact that there is a deep link between celebrities and anabolic steroids.

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An Assembly committee unanimously advanced legislation calling for increased surveillance of human growth hormone (HGH) amid growing evidence that the drug is abused.

The bill was described as a non-intrusive way to protect “the integrity of medicine” Health and Senior Services Committee Chairman Herb Conaway (D-Burlington) said that the bill will help eliminate abuse of HGH by patients and physicians.

From NJ.com:

“We will know whether it’s an individual patient doctor shopping or if it’s a physician who’s dealing,” Conaway told The Star-Ledger. “We’d be able to monitor both ends of the problem.”

The bill would add HGH to the list of drugs within the state’s prescription monitoring program. It follows a Star-Ledger series that revealed wide use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone among hundreds of law enforcement officers and firefighters in New Jersey.

The Star-Ledger found in most cases that the officers used their state-funded health benefits to foot the bill for substances, with the high cost of HGH running up a tab in the millions of dollars.

According to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, growth hormone deficiency affects one of every 100,000 American adults annually.

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A consultant physician who was medical officer to the Irish team at the 1996 Olympics has said that Beijing Olympics would play host to the cleanest Olympics in living memory.

Dr Conor O’Brien, Ireland’s leading expert on drugs in sport, said, “There is well-founded optimism that we will no longer have the spectre of the last 20 years, with almost every sprint champion being exposed as a cheat.”

From Independent.ie:

On his return from Atlanta , the Dubliner launched the Irish Anti-Doping Committee of which he was also the inaugural chairman for six years. And after retiring from this post in 2005, he was appointed by the Government to represent Ireland on the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA). Having stepped down recently from that post too, he feels free to express his views on a subject critical to the future of all sport.

“When you consider the idea of a man of 6ft 5ins competing against an opponent possibly a foot smaller, it is fanciful to think of sport as being fair,” he said. “But where drugs are concerned, our objective must be to make it safe. Drugs like cocaine, anabolic steroids, growth hormone (hGH) and erythropoietin (EPO) kill people, by damaging the heart, causing tumours and bringing about a whole variety of conditions which shorten people’s lives.”

Dr O’Brien also said, “So, not only can testers pick up an illegal substance, they pick up such important changes as the ratio of testosterone to epi-testosterone in an athlete’s system. If you suddenly find the ratio is abnormal, then there is either something wrong with your system, or you’re getting it from an outside source.

“For the cheat, it’s no longer a matter of masking the drug: the effect the drug is having on the system is also being monitored. Changes in a person are observed. If, for instance, a person’s blood-count is normally x and it suddenly goes to y, suspicions are raised.”

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