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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Georges Laraque said steroid use was commonplace for years in hockey dressing rooms.

In a new book, “The Story of the NHL’s Unlikeliest Tough Guy”, the retired NHL enforcer wrote that steroid use wasn’t limited to just the league’s bruisers.

From Espn.go.com:

Laraque, who is now a deputy leader of the federal Green Party, doesn’t accuse any players by name in the book. He said enforcers also used steroids to gain weight before arriving in the pros, and took substances such as Ephedrine so they would be desensitized before a fight.

The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association haven’t responded to Laraque’s claims. Testing for performance enhancing substances was included in the collective bargaining agreement between the league and the union in 2005.

No player who was making use of steroids was named by Laraque in the book.

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Steroid and illegal drug use was a problem in the NHL not too long ago, according to ex-enforcer Georges Laraque.

Laraque talks about steroid use in the NHL in his new book, “The Story of the NHL’s Unluckiest Tough Guy.”

From Larrybrownsports.com:

“I have to say here that tough guys weren’t the only players using steroids in the NHL,” the former Canadien wrote. “It was true that quite a lot of them did use this drug, but other, more talented players did too. Most of us knew who they were, but not a single player, not even me, would ever think of raising his hand to break the silence and accuse a fellow player.”

Laraque explained that if you look at a player’s decrease in efficiency and weight loss, you’ll notice there is a significant drop every four years when the Winter Olympics are held.  Obviously, the Olympics have a strict drug testing policy which would result in players being declared ineligible if they were caught.

“Before a game, as I would warm up on the ice, I would always look at the tough guy on the other side,” he said. “If his arms were trembling, if his eyes were bulging, I knew for sure he wasn’t going to feel any of the punches I would give him.”

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The Warren County’s Prosecutor’s Office and the Drug Task Force were asked by officials at the Countryside YMCA to investigate hear sayings that someone was trying to push anabolic steroids to high school athletes.

Thirty-three people were indicted on nearly 250 charges involving the multi-state drug trafficking ring after a two-year investigation.

From Middletownjournal.com:

Dr. Tim Kremchek, team physician for the Cincinnati Reds and four other high schools including Kings, hasn’t seen any cases but believes there could be steroid use at the high school level.

“I hope it’s not, but it may the tip of the iceberg,” Kremcheck said. “It wouldn’t surprise me, but it takes a bust like this for others to come forward.”

He said the overwhelming “pressure to compete for that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow can be too much for high school athletes to deal with.”

Maj. John Burke, Drug Task Force commander, said “the undercover officer said high school folks were definitely involved, but we were never able to identify who they were or what school they were from.”

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The strength and conditioning coach of Manny Pacquiao, Alex Ariza, is not concerned about the accusations of steroid use against the Filipino boxing champion.

Ariza has worked with Pacquiao for his last 8 fights in which Pacquiao held victories over Oscar de la Hoya, Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton, Joshua Clottey, Antonio Margarito, and Shane Mosley.

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Pacquiao’s success has led to accusations of steroid and performance enhancing drug (PED) use, mostly coming from the camp of Floyd Mayweather Jr., the WBC welterweight champion.

Floyd Mayweather Sr. has also implied that aside from Pacquiao, WBO and IBF junior welterweight champion Amir “King” Khan was also using steroids.

Both Khan and Pacquiao work with Ariza and five-time Trainer of the Year Freddie Roach.

“None of my guys is doing anything illegal, so to me, it’s like, I don’t care,” Ariza said. “The accusations don’t bother me at all – absolutely not.”

“According to everybody else, it’s impossible for my guys to be able to do what they’re doing. But they go into every fight with a lot of confidence and they’re in the best possible condition,” he added.

“Manny Pacquiao has blown out everybody he’s fought in his last 8 fights with me. That’s how many different divisions? That’s 135, 140, 147, and 154,” Ariza said in a RingTV.com interview.

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Steroid use was commonplace for years in hockey dressing rooms, according to retired NHL enforcer Georges Laraque in a new book.

“I have to say here that tough guys weren’t the only players using steroids in the NHL,” Laraque wrote. “It was true that quite a lot of them did use this drug, but other, more talented players did too.

From Sacbee.com:

The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association haven’t responded to Laraque’s claims. Testing for performance enhancing substances was included in the collective bargaining agreement between the league and the union in 2005.

Laraque played in 695 NHL games over 12 seasons with Edmonton, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Montreal. He had 53 goals, 100 assists and 1,126 penalty minutes.

Now a deputy leader of the federal Green Party, Laraque doesn’t accuse any players by name in the book. He said enforcers also used steroids to gain weight before arriving in the pros, and took substances such as Ephedrine so they would be desensitized before a fight.

In his new book “The Story of the NHL’s Unlikeliest Tough Guy,” Laraque wrote, “Most of us knew who they were, but not a single player, not even me, would ever think of raising his hand to break the silence and accuse a fellow player.”

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A lot of people are wondering just how widespread steroid use is becoming after a massive steroid sweep this week in southwest Ohio.

High school athletes are now in the spotlight in the wake of the biggest steroid bust in the area in recent history.

From Wdtn.com:

Investigators say they found evidence that many of the performance enhancing drugs were being sold and used by students looking to get bigger, stronger and faster quickly.

“I can honestly say I’ve never seen a high school kid use steroids, but clearly with the things going on in the news, they are being used somewhere,” said Coach Aracri.

He told 2 News he spends a lot of time talking to teens about anabolic steroids and convincing them to stay away from the drugs.

“What we just do with them is show them that you don’t have to dig very deep to see some of the negative side effects on the inside and outside of your body to see why you shouldn’t use steroids,” a local high school football coach Andy Aracri said.

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Federal prosecutors still care deeply about steroids, and lying about their use to Congress as the aborted Roger Clemens trial shows.

The shredded reputation of Clemens remains in limbo after last week’s mistrial in the perjury case against one of baseball’s all-time greats.

From Miamiherald.com:

Charged with lying to Congress about performance enhancing drugs, Clemens joined otherwise surefire Hall of Famers Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire as the personification of the sport’s steroid era.

Bonds’ own steroid saga is likewise on hold. Back in April, a jury convicted him of one count of obstruction of justice but deadlocked on three other charges.

So, while it’s clear federal authorities still take matters of steroid use and false statements seriously, do the rest of us?

Steroidmania, which peaked with the demolition of Major League Baseball’s home run records, has ebbed as sluggers have retired and longball totals have dropped.

The fervency is tangibly on the wane in Florida, where a testing program at the high school level was allowed to lapse after one year. There is no current plan to revive it.

“I think there’s certainly some performance-enhancing drug fatigue,” said Charles Yesalis, a professor at Penn State and longtime outspoken critic of PED abuse.

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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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According to a report by the New York Times, Major League Baseball and union officials may have misled the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the context of steroid use among players.

The officials presented figures that demonstrated that the two-year-old testing program of baseball had substantially reduced the number of positive tests for performance enhancing drugs, as per the newspaper.

From Espnstar.com:

“It’s clear that some of the information Major League Baseball and the players’ union gave the committee in 2005 was inaccurate,” Waxman said in a written statement, according to the Times. “It isn’t clear whether this was intentional or just reflects confusion over the testing program for 2003 and 2004. In any case, the misinformation is unacceptable.”

The newspaper also reported that the committee’s staff plans to send letters to MLB commissioner Bud Selig and union executive director Donald Fehr about what Waxman deemed “misinformation.”

Those falsities came from the information about 2004 testing, which was shut down for part of the season, allowing for the significantly lower number of positive results, according to the report. The newspaper said the committee was not aware of that. The Times reported that Selig’s office later called that shutdown “an emergency response to an unforeseen situation,” which the report said was in reference to the federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroid ring.

“The testimony of Major League Baseball officials was completely accurate, and we are happy to address any concerns that Congressman Waxman may have,” deputy commissioner Rob Manfred said.

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