The use of steroids is a relatively quick fix in the world of sports where athletes want to get as much of an edge on the competition as possible.

However, steroid use may soon turn into steroid abuse leading to a wide range of side effects such as liver disease, severe acne, and infertility.

From App.com:

While professional and college athletes were usually the ones in the spotlight, steroid use has trickled down to high school student-athletes. No longer are teenagers immune, acquiring the lethal product with little difficulty.

“We would be naive to think in this day and age that this type of activity isn’t going on more and more — the pressure on kids, parents wanting to see their kids gets scholarships, the pressures of AAU ball,” said Mike Gatley, president of the Cape-Atlantic League and athletic director at Mainland High School. “We’d be naive to think kids aren’t potentially contemplating it or using things to get better.”

“When my kids were (teenagers), I asked them about steroids,” state Sen. Richard Codey, D-Essex, said. “They said they could just go to the city (New York) or on the Internet. It was easy as pie. Where did they learn this? From kids in school.”

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After Attorney General Paula Dow pushed a spate of reforms designed to combat steroid abuse in law enforcement, the president of the state police chief’s association said he believes that most departments in New Jersey will add the substances to the list of drugs for which officers are randomly tested.

William Nally, the police chief in Lacey Township and president of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, was one of several law enforcement officials to predict random steroid testing getting more common after office of the Attorney General completes revisions to its drug-testing guidelines.

From NJ.com:

As part of her reforms, Dow has said the guidelines will be rewritten to give police departments new authority to test officers for steroids, which only a handful of agencies now do.

While departments are not required to conduct steroid tests under the revised rules, Nally said he expects the vast majority will take part, even if that means testing just a few officers in a given department every six months.

“I’m sure as soon as the policy is revised, almost every police department that’s involved in drug testing will incorporate this into their policies,” Nally said. “I think you’ll have complete cooperation from law enforcement.”

Nally’s comment followed a press conference in which Dow formally unveiled her reform measures, which were prompted by a Star-Ledger investigation published in December.

Dow said during a press conference in Hamilton that the newspaper’s three-part series “highlighted the damage that can be done when a doctor’s actions go unchecked and individuals become aware of the opportunity to obtain medications they may not be entitled to.”

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Brian Jackson, the 36-year-old, former Oregon City High School strength and conditioning coach has pleaded guilty to supplying steroids to a Canby police officer.

Jackson was led away to spend 30 days in Clackamas County jail, followed by two years probation.

From Oregonlive.com:

Clackamas County Circuit Judge Douglas V. Van Dyk ordered Jackson not to use or possess any steroids or human growth hormone, nor any alcohol or drugs and to pay a $107 fine to the court.

He also was ordered not to have any contact with co-defendants, Jason Deason, the former Canby officer who resigned from the job last July during an FBI investigation, and William Traverso, a Canby businessman also accused of providing steroids to Deason.

The judge and Clackamas County prosecutor Michael Wu said the sentence was reached partly because of Jackson took “early responsibility” for his actions and cooperated with the FBI inquiry that led to his arrest.

It marks the first criminal conviction resulting from the federal public corruption investigation into the Canby officer’s steroid abuse, and follows the resignation last month of Canby Police Chief Greg Kroeplin, accused of failing to properly investigate his officer’s drug use.

Traverso, a former competitive bodybuilder who worked at his family’s Canby Landscape Supply, told the FBI that Jackson was his main supplier of steroid pills from 2002 through 2005.

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The Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation recently announced the creation of a partnership with the Taylor Hooton Foundation to fight steroid abuse on a comprehensive education program in the Arlington Independent School District.

Details of the partnership and program were announced at a press conference at the Hutcheson Junior High School in Arlington.

From Texas.rangers.mlb.com:

The Rangers-Hooton Foundation program will educate and inform Arlington ISD Junior and Senior High School students on the dangers of anabolic and Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs (APEDs). The Hooton Foundation and Texas Rangers representatives, including Rangers Foundation President and club Hall of Fame catcher Jim Sundberg will make presentations at numerous Junior and Senior High Schools in the Arlington ISD throughout the school year. The first event was held at Shackelford Junior High in January.

“The Texas Rangers are proud to join with the Taylor Hooton Foundation on this very important project,” commented Rangers Managing Partner and CEO Chuck Greenberg. “The abuse of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs is a serious issue with our youth. The Hooton Foundation is one of the nation’s leading advocates of the dangers of these drugs, and we look forward to helping them continue the cause.”

Greenberg also said, “We are extremely proud to be working with the Rangers in educating our children about this threat. On and off the field we couldn’t have a better partner,” Don Hooton, President of the Hooton Foundation said. “Anabolic steroid use continues to be a growing problem among our nation’s youth. The most powerful weapon that we have to fight this battle is education, and we are so very pleased that the Texas Rangers are joining forces with us to help insure that students in the Arlington ISD are exposed to the truth about these dangerous, illegal drugs.”

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According to drug rules that are set to be agreed at the World Anti-Doping Conference in Madrid, athletes found guilty of heavy-duty steroid abuse will face bans of up to four years for a first offence instead of the existing two years.

The new punishment for the most serious of doping offences follows a scientific study that has revealed that performance-enhancing effect of anabolic steroids could last as long as four years.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

The lengthening of the ban has the backing of Professor Arne Ljungqvist, the chairman of the International Olympic Committee medical commission, who said: “The study shows quite clearly that the changes in the muscles that occur in people who are on steroid regimes and programmes last well beyond two years, even three or four years and possibly more.

“This means that for people who have doped systematically, like we know many people have, the steroids may have benefits much longer than the length of their ban, so it would be unfair to let them back.”

Ljungqvist confirmed that had the rule been in place for the summer’s World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Ukrainian Lyud-mila Blonska, who beat Britain’s Kelly Sotherton to the heptathlon silver medal, would not have been eligible to compete.

Guilty athletes who co-operate fully with the anti-doping authorities will have the chance to get the punishment reduced by providing credible evidence of doping among other athletes or their support personnel.

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Legislators in New Jersey are trying to strengthen efforts in a sincere attempt to prevent steroid abuse, and introducing what could be the first U.S. law that would require police and firefighters, to be examined by a doctor before being prescribed anabolic steroids or human growth hormone.

Assemblyman John McKeon, who authored the bill, said, state taxpayers have been “wrongly paying for millions of dollars in insurance costs for prescriptions that were, in many cases, issued illegally.”

From Fairwarning.org:

Another potentially precedent-setting measure, also introduced by McKeon Monday, urges the state attorney general’s office to implement random steroid drug testing for law enforcement and firefighters. Under existing policies, law enforcement agencies may request testing for steroids and designer drugs, but they rarely do.

A series by The Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark, N.J., recently revealed widespread steroid abuse in police and fire departments. In one case, at least 248 officers and firefighters reportedly obtained prescriptions for steroids from a single Jersey City doctor.

A particular concern is that steroid-using police officers will be overly aggressive, perhaps fueled by “’roid rage.” Larry Gaines, chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University, San Bernardino, told Reuters he didn’t think that sort of aggression is a common problem. But, he added, “If it does occur, you could see lawsuits against police departments regarding citizens injured from steroid rage.”

The state legislature is also to consider a bill, which strengthens measures to prevent steroid use and performance enhancing supplements used to improve performance by middle school and high school students.

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The FBI has disclosed that Canby Officer Jason Deason bought anabolic steroids on the job.

The accused officer purchased the steroids from Brian Jackson, strength and conditioning coach for the much-heralded Oregon City High School girls’ basketball team.

From Oregonlive.com:

Federal agents this year launched a public-corruption investigation, revealing a cozy relationship between Kroeplin and Deason in the 24-member force that allowed the officer to brazenly buy steroids while on duty and in uniform and tip off his suppliers to police inquiries, according to multiple search warrant affidavits filed in U.S. District Court.

Canby police supervisors either failed to address the problem or concealed it, federal authorities allege in the court documents. The investigation also uncovered a steroid distribution network that operated in Oregon, Washington and Arizona.

No charges have been filed in the Canby case.

Kroeplin and Canby City Administrator Mark Adcock referred all questions to the FBI. David Miller, FBI special agent in charge of the Portland office, declined to comment, citing an ongoing investigation. The federal agency lists public corruption as one of its top four priorities, and this case marks its first inquiry into steroid abuse among police in Oregon.

Dr. Linn Goldberg, head of OHSU’s Division of Health Promotion and Sports Medicine said, “You could see why a police officer might want to use them,” He added, “Sometimes they have to fight hand-to-hand. They have to restrain people. … You could see where there’s an inducement.”

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The researchers found that illicit use of human growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor that is common among male weightlifters. In addition, such use among male weightlifters is often associated with polydrug use in terms of performance-enhancing drugs to both strengthen and classic.

The researchers compared three groups of men to augment the conflicting data on human growth hormone abuse.

From Endocrinetoday.com:

Of the 231 men polled for the study, 43% reported lifetime steroid use, with 26 men reporting lifetime GH use and one reporting IGF-I use but no GH use. These 27 men had tried GH or IGF-I after steroids, the researchers said. Eighty-one percent also reported current or past dependence on steroids.

Long-term steroid use was more common among those who used GH or IGF-I. The median total lifetime duration was 173 weeks compared with 24 weeks among steroid users who had not tried either substance.

At 56%, the proportion of GH or IGF-I users who described past dependence on at least one drug other than alcohol or cannabis was highest of those in all three groups, according to the researchers. Many reported abusing opiates, methylenedioxymethamphetamine, cocaine and stimulants.

“Although [GH] does not produce a ‘reward’ of acute intoxication in the manner of classical dependence-inducing drugs such as alcohol or opioids, the possibility remains that its metabolic effects, or perhaps even subtle hedonic effects, might themselves be sufficiently reinforcing to induce a dependence syndrome in some individuals,” the researchers wrote.

According to other results, men using GH or IGF-I were considerably more muscular and had longer histories of weightlifting compared with nonusers. In addition, only 19% had college degrees and most were generally less educated, although they were usually older than men in the other two groups.

Those reporting lifetime use of GH or IGF-I were placed in the first group, those who reported using anabolic androgenic steroids but not GH or IGF-I were placed in the second group, and who reported no use were placed in the third group.

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If recent reports are to be believed, steroid abuse is increasing again. Some years ago, anabolic steroids fell from grace because of their adverse effects and ‘Roid-heads’ went on to become objects of ridicule.

However, a new generation looking for a quick success has been seduced by the false promise of a link to a perfect body.

From Theherald.com.au:

In their own time these youngsters will discover the truth – that a steroid-inflated body is about as convincing and impressive as a fake tan and that the personal cost of abuse can be horrendous.

Even if the purity of black market steroids could be guaranteed (it can’t), abusers run the risk of detrimental impacts on their personalities and behaviour. “Roid rage” is just the tip of an iceberg of psychological symptoms that produce the opposite of the self-esteem and self-assurance that many abusers are seeking.

The physical symptoms are potentially dreadful too. Bodies out of proportion, unwelcome “man boobs”, shrunken genitals and acne explosions are just the beginning. Internal damage is prevalent and can be irreversible.

To the extent that steroid abuse reflects anxiety among young men about their body image, it represents a growing problem that demands serious attention. Like eating disorders in both young men and women, the problem is a symptom of an increasingly prevalent mental health issue.

Hospital admissions and many social studies indicate that growing numbers of young people are so anxious and depressed about their apparent failure to conform to the socially approved body image that they will endanger their physical health in an attempt to attain their perceived “ideal”.

Publicity campaigns designed to combat obesity, poor diet, and widespread obesity are believed to have stimulated the growth and success of anabolic steroids in recent times.

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If recent reports are to be believed, steroid abuse is on the increase again. A few years ago, anabolic steroids fell into disfavour as their side effects became apparent and “roid-heads” went on to became objects of ridicule.

However, the new generation looking for quick success is being seduced by the false promise of a shortcut to a perfect body.

From Theherald.com.au:

In their own time these youngsters will discover the truth – that a steroid-inflated body is about as convincing and impressive as a fake tan and that the personal cost of abuse can be horrendous.

Even if the purity of black market steroids could be guaranteed (it can’t), abusers run the risk of detrimental impacts on their personalities and behaviour. “Roid rage” is just the tip of an iceberg of psychological symptoms that produce the opposite of the self-esteem and self-assurance that many abusers are seeking.

The physical symptoms are potentially dreadful too. Bodies out of proportion, unwelcome “man boobs”, shrunken genitals and acne explosions are just the beginning. Internal damage is prevalent and can be irreversible.

To the extent that steroid abuse reflects anxiety among young men about their body image, it represents a growing problem that demands serious attention. Like eating disorders in both young men and women, the problem is a symptom of an increasingly prevalent mental health issue.

Hospital admissions and many social studies indicate that growing numbers of young people are so anxious and depressed about their apparent failure to conform to the socially approved body image that they will endanger their physical health in an attempt to attain their perceived “ideal”.

Poor diet, coupled with widespread obesity and publicity campaigns designed to combat obesity are believed to have stimulated growth and success of anabolic steroids in the recent times.

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