Recently, the legislation intended to help curtail steroid use by student-athletes received final legislative approval by the full Assembly by a vote of 74-2 and will now go to the desk of the Governor.

The bill would require all public school coaches and non-public interscholastic sports, dance, and cheerleading coaches to incorporate a gender-specific program designed to reduce the use of steroids, alcohol and other drugs and to promote healthy nutrition and exercise into the team’s training regimen.

From NJtoday.net:

The bill (S-834/A-2454) would codify recommendations from the 2005 Governor’s Task Force on Steroid Use and Prevention, establishing measures to deter the use of steroids and other performance enhancing supplements in middle school and high school athletes.

“Many teenage athletes may view steroids as a quick way to get to the top of their game, without thinking about or even being aware of the consequences,” said Assemblyman Albert Coutinho (D-Essex). “Improving how we educate them about the dangers of performance enhancing drugs will help keep them healthy now and years down the road.”

Under the bill, the state Department of Education (DOE) and the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) would work jointly to develop and implement – by the 2010-2011 school year – a program of random steroid testing of student athletes who qualify to compete in championship tournaments sanctioned by the NJSIAA.

“Coaches as well as student athletes need to fully understand the dangers of steroid use and abuse,” said Assemblywoman L. Grace Spencer (D-Essex). “The earlier we can impress this on our student athletes, the better their health – both mental and physical – will be as adults.”

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Promoter Gary Shaw recently spoke on a number of issues, including his thoughts on performance enhancing drugs in boxing.

Shaw also recommended that all world title fights should be tested.

From Fighthype.com:

“I think steroids are rampant in boxing. I think it’s disgusting and unfair. I don’t know why the commissions aren’t taking more action. In baseball, it’s gone from aesthetic to the Department of Justice. You don’t think they should be investigated in boxing? We all know in boxing the problem is rampant… If I had Floyd Mayweather, I’d do the same thing… I heard Lou Dibella say the only way Ortiz could have a rematch with Berto is random drug testing.”

Shaw also recommended that steroid testing should be brought into the place and sanctioning bodies should get behind such testing.

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Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli has welcomed the reforms announced recently by Attorney General Paula Dow to combat steroid use in law enforcement.

The County prosecutor said these reforms would allow greater flexibility in confronting what has been a complex problem to law enforcement executives throughout the county.

From Northjersey.com:

“Now, a law enforcement executive — a prosecutor, a police chief — now it doesn’t matter if the police officer is showing up and performing his or her duties,” he said. “If non-prescribed steroid use exists, we can now not only do something, we have an obligation to do something. It gives executives more tools — so we’re not waiting to see something happen that’s wrong.”

Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes, a member of Dow’s study group that recommended the reforms, said Thursday that there was “no question” steroid testing would be put in place in Passaic County police departments. Molinelli echoed her statement, saying that police departments across Bergen County welcome the reforms.

“The overall concept of allowing law enforcement executives to be more aggressive in this area is a very huge and positive step forward,” he said.

Dow’s call for reform was the result of a six-month investigation into allegations that a doctor (now deceased) may have illegally prescribed anabolic steroids, human growth hormones (HGH), and other muscle building drugs to 248 public safety officials, mostly policemen and firefighters.

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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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The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association announced on Wednesday that steroid testing for New Jersey high school athletes will return for 2010-11.

Bob Baly, NJSIAA assistant director, said 490 athletes were tested in 2009-10 and all of them tested negative for performance enhancing drugs.

From Pressofatlanticcity.com:

NJSIAA executive director Steve Timko said in June that steroid testing would be cut because the state government did provide any funds for it. But Timko said Wednesday the state did include funds in the budget it passed in July, so the testing is back.

The state and NJSIAA each contribute $50,000 to pay for the program.

The NJSIAA randomly will test 500 athletes who participate in state tournament games and matches this school year.

NJSIAA assistant director Bob Baly said 490 athletes were tested in 2009-10 and were all negative for performance-enhancing drugs.

Baly said that the fact that athletes are aware that any of them can be tested is certainly a deterrent for making use of performance enhancing drugs.

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The use of steroids by a Major League Baseball slugger can produce only modest improvements in muscle mass and bat-and-ball speed but has the ability to boost home run production by as much as 50 percent.

This finding was revealed by a study by Tufts University physicist Roger Tobin, a specialist in condensed matter physics with a long-time interest in the physics of baseball.

From News-Medical.Net:

Tobin reviewed previous studies of the effect of steroid use and concluded that muscle mass, the force exerted by those muscles and the kinetic energy of the bat could each be increased by about 10 percent through the use of steroids. According to his calculations, the speed of the bat as it strikes the pitched ball will be about 5 percent higher than without the use of steroids and the speed of the ball as it leaves the bat will be about 4 percent higher.

To determine the ultimate impact on home run production, Tobin then analyzed a variety of models for trajectory of the baseball, accounting for gravity, air resistance and lift force due to the ball’s spin. While there was considerable variation among the models, “the salient point,” he says, “is that a 4 percent increase in ball speed, which can reasonably be expected from steroid use, can increase home run production by anywhere from 50 percent to 100 percent.”

Tobin remarked that the home run explosion coincides with the dawn of the “steroid era” in sports in the mid-1990s and dropped significantly when Major League Baseball instituted steroid testing.

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Things are pretty much under dark clouds as far as the growing popularity of steroids is concerned as more and more people are making use of prescription drugs, steroids, and performance enhancing drugs than ever. These trends are especially alarming in the segments of bodybuilding, professional sports, and aging community.

It seems like almost every one was on steroids till steroid testing measures were introduced by the anti-doping fraternity. This can be easily evident from the fact that more and more individuals are using steroids despite tall claims from the anti-doping officials.

From SteroidTimes.com:

In a recent study done by Strahm et al at the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses not very reliable (1). They examined the T/E ratio and its variances between ethnic groups because of a testosterone over epitestosterone (T/E) ratio exceeding 4.0 is considered as suspicious of testosterone administration, irrespectively of individual heterogeneous factors such as the athlete’s ethnicity. Strahm and colleagues found that a deletion polymorphism in the UGT2B17 gene was demonstrated to account for a significant part of the inter-individual variability in the T/E between Caucasians and Asians. By estimation of the prevalence of the UGT2B17 deletion/deletion genotype (African: 22%; Asian: 81%; Caucasian: 10%; Hispanic: 7%), ethnic-specific thresholds were developed for a specificity of 99% for the T/E (African: 5.6; Asian: 3.8; Caucasian: 5.7; Hispanic: 5.8).

In other words the group at the Swiss doping lab found out that a blanket T/E ratio is not accurate enough for the testing protocol and that “significant differences have been observed between all ethnic groups.” There conclusion was “that an athlete’s endocrinological passport consisting of a longitudinal follow-up together with the ethnicity and/or the genotype would strongly enhance the detection of testosterone abuse.”

The fact that steroids help individuals to realize their long-cherished dreams without much effort and on a consistent basis is something that has long been alluring one and all towards steroids.

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In an announcement made at a meeting of baseball owners in Scottsdale, Arizona, an agreement was entered into by Major League baseball players and union officials for implementing tougher doping policies.

Baseball and union officials have expanded the list of banned substances though amphetamines will be something that players would not be tested for.

From NYTimes.com:

“I felt an obligation that some day, somebody could come up to you and say, ‘You people knew about this, and you didn’t do anything about it,’ ” Commissioner Bud Selig said on a conference call. “That was something I would have had a very hard time living with. But the fact of the matter is that today, we did something about it.”

Baseball did not adopt steroid testing for major leaguers until 2002, when it negotiated a program with the union that was roundly criticized as being too lenient. Rob Manfred, an executive vice president for baseball, said the new policy was different in the frequency of testing during the season; the addition of off-season testing; the number of banned substances; and the penalties.

Rob Manfred, an executive vice president for baseball, was of the view that this policy is as good as any policy in any professional sport.

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Mohammad Asif, Pakistan fast bowler, has claimed that he was unfairly treated for testing positive during steroid testing.

The Courier Mail quoted Asif, ““I had a very strong case, but they didn’t actually listen. Nobody was with me, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was on the back foot. I was just alone and had to handle the whole thing. I will tell everything when the time comes. It’s not the right time … It was a very difficult time for me,”

From Dawn.com:

He vowed to “tell everything” about his drug dramas. Banned for a year for testing positive to steroid nandrolone during the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008, Asif has only just returned to Test cricket.

The lanky paceman began his Test career against Australia at Sydney in January 2005. Before returning to the Test fold against New Zealand last month after playing against South Africa at Lahore in October 2007, Asif had claimed 51 wickets in 11 Tests.

People who knew Asif suggested that Asif could be a serious menace to batsmen from Australia during the upcoming series between Pakistan and Australia. Asif vows that he will be at his level best against Australia as he is presently reaching peak fitness level.

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Scientists in the United Kingdom have reported the development of a new test that has the potential to identify steroids with higher accuracy in the European beef industry.

It was remarked that this new test is more convenient and economical than conventional doping tests.

In this study, Rodat Cunningham and colleagues said that widespread abuse of steroids continues and remains difficult to detect despite the European Union banning use of growth-promoting agents in cattle.

From Sciencedaily.com:

The scientists describe a new test that measures steroids indirectly based on chemical changes associated with growth and muscle development in steroid-treated cattle. Using a commercial blood analyzer commonly found in hospitals, the researchers measured 20 chemical markers, including proteins and cholesterol, in cattle treated with and without commonly used steroids over a 42-day study period.

The new test detected the steroids with accuracy between 91 and 96 percent. The study opens the door to on-site steroid testing with portable instrumentation, the researchers say.

The standard methods – mass spectrometry and gas chromatography – for detecting steroid abuse are expensive and not able to detect some of the newer steroid hormones.

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