Menstuff® has compiled the following information on stroid
use. While there may be others, this is the first report that we have
seen that supports steroid use in athletes. This much of the
comparison used in this piece seems contradictory, and no real
recommendation on which ones are okay, how to administer, etc., we
are holding our opinions until we hear back from the author.
What You Should Know About Steroids
Steroid health dangers a "foul
ball"
Athletes Need to Speak Out on Steroids,
Lawmaker Says
Barry Bonds Does It Without
Drugs
There are Those Who Imply This is Not
True
Teenage Girls Using Steroids at
High Rate: Motives for Their Use Go Beyond Performance on Sports
Field
Steroid health dangers a "foul ball"
Collins objects to distorted or exaggerated health warnings to bolster the "unfair advantage" argument, and criticizes the propaganda campaign against anabolic steroids that has demonized them to the public. Are steroids dangerous? They sure can be, says Collins, but so can aspirin, air travel, and driving a car. Collins warns that like all prescription medications, anabolic steroids can have adverse side effects, including serious ones, particularly if self-administered in the absence of medical supervision or in excessive dosages. Teens should absolutely never use steroids.
But media reports that have linked anabolic steroids with frightening dangers to the liver, heart, prostate and connective tissues of healthy mature adult males don't always stand up to scrutiny, he says. As detailed in his web site at www.SteroidLaw.com, the medical research underlying some reports has been of questionable applicability to healthy athletes, many studies have focused on patients who were already very sick and old. Other studies have failed to differentiate between types of anabolic steroids, improperly generalizing adverse effects to all anabolic steroids, particularly in the association of steroids to liver problems. In many cases, Collins asserts, the lay press has relied upon biased authorities with strong ties to government or organized sports that have exaggerated the risks to discourage use and to further their own agenda.
Scientific and medical authorities that have objectively reviewed the overall medical literature have concluded that most steroid side effects in athletes are mild and reversible, especially as compared to the risks of death or disability associated with cigarette smoking, cocaine use, or chronic alcohol abuse. Collins notes that many more people have died or been permanently injured from botched liposuctions and other cosmetic surgery procedures in the past few years than by non-medical anabolic steroid use. Further, there is mounting evidence proving the significant benefits of safe anabolic steroid administration, especially in improving the quality of life in HIV+ men and in treating "andropause" the physical and sexual symptoms of male aging.
If our paramount concern for athletes is forced health safety, Collins says, cigarettes and alcohol should have been outlawed long ago. But if the concern is the potential dishonor and dehumanization of sports by an escalating chemical "arms race," then the arguments to ban steroids in baseball are intellectually honest and deserve serious consideration.
Rick Collins, Esq., is a former prosecutor and a recognized legal authority on sports drugs. He has represented or consulted with hundreds of clients across the country on issues concerning steroids and sports supplements. Involved with the strength training community for nearly twenty-five years, he has been nationally certified as a personal trainer by the American Council on Exercise after an intensive course of study in human anatomy, exercise performance, training theories, nutrition and kinesiology. He is well versed in the literature pertaining to anabolic steroids for non-medical use in both scientific journals and lay publications. He regularly corresponds with many of the world's foremost authorities in the field, and has interviewed over a hundred strength athletes and aesthetic users regarding their use of these hormones. He authors a monthly column for the nationally circulated Muscular Development magazine, and is a member of their expert Advisory Board. He has been interviewed as an authority on sports drugs in talk radio interviews and by numerous online and print publications, including ESPN.com, The New York Times, the Village Voice, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Shreveport Times. He has written extensively on the topic of illicit anabolic steroid use in journals and magazines, most recently in featured articles for the Criminal Justice Journal of the New York State Bar Association and The Champion, the journal of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Source: Rick Collins, Esq., Collins, McDonald
& Gann, 516.294.0300 or info@cmgesq.com,
or www.SteroidLaw.com
Link to this story online: www.xpresspress.com/news/steroidlaw_060402.html
What You Should Know About Steroids
Barry Bonds Does It Without Drugs
There are Those Who Imply This is Not
True
And if it is true, we will change our story. We did check further
with Jon Saraceno (jons@usatoday.com)
who does a column for USA Today. Here was his response:
gordon: thanks for the note. no, there is no confirmation. but, rather strangely, he went from a 180-190-pound player to 220-plus, almost overnight. and we're not talking fat, we're talking muscle. his answers to questions regarding the subject are quite oblique, in my opinion. take this for what it's worth. best, jon :
Since this has become a country of writers to do character
assassinations with implication, (not including Joe), we still
believe a man is innocent until proven guilty rather than the other
way around.
Athletes Need to Speak Out on Steroids,
Lawmaker Says
Curtis Wenzlaff, a convicted steroids dealer who claims to have supplied Mark McGwire, was asked "Will it help you hit a baseball?" He said, "Let me put it to you this way. If Paris Hilton was to take that array, she could run over Dick Butkus."
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