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.

From Abs-cbnnews.com:

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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Kirk Radomski, 38, who was a batboy and equipment manager with the New York Mets from 1985 to 1995, has pleaded guilty to distributing steroids and money laundering.

Radomski, the former Major League Baseball clubhouse attendant who sold steroids to dozens of players,

From Reuters.com:

“He is probably the most significant cooperator in the area of sports athletic doping,” prosecutor Matthew Parrella told the judge, explaining that the federal government was not seeking any jail time. “His extensive and immediate cooperation deserve recognition.”

Radomski has testified before former Sen. George Mitchell’s commission, which alleged widespread steroid use in Major League Baseball, and will appear before a congressional committee in Washington next week.

His lawyer said Radomski received anonymous threats by telephone after the Mitchell Report was released in December.

“I would like to apologize to the court, to my family, my friends for everything I have done,” said Radomski. “It hasn’t been easy on me or my family.”

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Director of the South African Institute for Drug- Free Sport, Dr Shuaib Manjra, recently said that legal constraints and lack of budget are hampering the implementation of routine testing for steroids and other performance enhancing drugs.

It was reported a few weeks back that tests conducted at 18 of SA’s top schools revealed that about one in six pupils tested positive for a variety of illegal steroids.

From Businessday.co.za:

Dr Manjra said that the legal constraints to testing and the prosecution of pupils, unless they were taking part in a national sporting event, such as Craven Week, was an obstacle to preventing steroid use at school level.

As samples are required to be sent to the US, the testing fee is also a stumbling block.

“Unless the schools and their pupils’ parents sign an agreement that pupils can be tested, our hands are tied.

“Most schools cannot afford the testing fees, which are R1500 each,” said Dr Manjra.

This year, the organisation’s government grant to run education programmes on the dangers of stimulants and steroids in schools was increased by 55% to R10,4m. The National Lottery has also contributed R1m for educational programmes.

Dr Manjra warned that without policing of the illegal steroid industry, the education programmes will have a limited effect. “The only way to tackle the growing use of anabolic steroid drugs by school children is to get law enforcement agencies involved in cracking down on their distribution,” he said.

“There is a proliferation of underground steroid manufacturers in SA, and we need police involvement to combat the problem,” Dr Manjra said.

The study was conducted by Johannesburg Company, Drug Detection International.

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Former Chicago Bears linebacker Dick Butkus has not changed in many ways ever since he left the football field 38 years ago.

The days of Butkus on the field may be over but he is now making every possible effort to curb steroid use among young athletes.

From Infozine.com:

Butkus took part in a luncheon briefing for congressional staff members on Capitol Hill Wednesday, where he discussed the benefits of sports nutrition, the detriments of taking performance-enhancing drugs and his effort to educate young athletes through his I Play Clean campaign.

Butkus said he first realized the severity of steroid use in youth sports when watching an ESPN special seven years ago.

“The plain truth is, if you use steroids for a prolonged period of time, you’ll probably be a heart patient, die early or both,” Butkus said.

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