Steroid Sting Fallout: Epidemic of Abuse

[BoogyMan]

They are there to pump........you up!


Source: Link (http://abcnews.go.com/WN/FedCrimes/story?id=3802782&page=1)

After a recent series of raids uncovered illegally produced steroids by the barrel full, ABC News has learned that the alleged underground labs might have had as many as 30,000 to 40,000 customers.

The Drug Enforcement Administration says it has identified those alleged clients of the thriving multi-million-dollar black market industry through e-mails and credit card purchase records obtained during the course of the investigation.
.... (http://abcnews.go.com/WN/FedCrimes/story?id=3802782&page=1)

[lily]

After seeing the effects of what steroids can do........I don't know why anyone would wllingly put this crap in their bodies.

[BoogyMan]

I am right there with you lily, I cannot see how anyone who knows the dangers in the long run could submit themselves to such treatment for a short term gain.

Sorry to hear you have actually had to see what this stuff can do.

[Elrathin]

After seeing the effects of what steroids can do........I don't know why anyone would wllingly put this crap in their bodies.


I don't agree with it and agree with you both, however, especially in the modeling, body building industry, and less mainstream extreme sports, there is a demand for it and in some cases, expected. That's not including the usual vain excuses people use it for in general.

Even after the stuff I listed, I still don't understand why people would put that shit in their bodies.

[Buck Laser]

After seeing the effects of what steroids can do........I don't know why anyone would wllingly put this crap in their bodies.

Actually, I'm kinda hoping to get a steroid shot when I go to see an orthopedic surgeon about the shoulder that's been sore for six months. The X-Ray showed a bone spur there--steroid shots sure helped the bone spur I had on my heel about ten years ago.

My body is too old to build on, anyway! :drool::drool:

[BoogyMan]

After seeing the effects of what steroids can do........I don't know why anyone would wllingly put this crap in their bodies.

Actually, I'm kinda hoping to get a steroid shot when I go to see an orthopedic surgeon about the shoulder that's been sore for six months. The X-Ray showed a bone spur there--steroid shots sure helped the bone spur I had on my heel about ten years ago.

My body is too old to build on, anyway! :drool::drool:


Buck, that is a positive use that validates the medicinal existence of the drug.

Are you sure you wont be pumping iron after that shot? :D

[Buck Laser]

Buck, that is a positive use that validates the medicinal existence of the drug.

Are you sure you wont be pumping iron after that shot? :D

Well, it was pumping iron that first made the shoulder sore--but it's been made worse by throwing balls for my dog, Joe. I'm tired of having to take a Darvocet daily to get my shoulder to stop hurting so I can sleep.

But physical therapy will probably be the ticket--it sure worked for my broken arm a few years ago.

As to steroids--I've heard conversations in physical therapy clinics about what drugs might be legal, and what aren't. And these were college age kids and/or their parents. I stayed quiet because there was nothing I could say.

[lily]

Actually, I'm kinda hoping to get a steroid shot when I go to see an orthopedic surgeon about the shoulder that's been sore for six months. The X-Ray showed a bone spur there--steroid shots sure helped the bone spur I had on my heel about ten years ago.

My body is too old to build on, anyway! :drool::drool:



Buck........be sure you talk to your doctor. Steroids jack up your sugar like you won't believe and not just for one day.

[Buck Laser]

Actually, I'm kinda hoping to get a steroid shot when I go to see an orthopedic surgeon about the shoulder that's been sore for six months. The X-Ray showed a bone spur there--steroid shots sure helped the bone spur I had on my heel about ten years ago.

My body is too old to build on, anyway! :drool::drool:



Buck........be sure you talk to your doctor. Steroids jack up your sugar like you won't believe and not just for one day.

I didn't know that. Fortunately, the orthopod is in the same clinic as my other doctors, so he'll have full access to my medical history, and should know what's right to do.

[Labrocca]

mm...Darvocet...good stuff.

After seeing the effects of what steroids can do........I don't know why anyone would wllingly put this crap in their bodies.

People use Crack, Meth and Heroin too.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GS8XY4GMnJk

haha...watching the video I realize that Meth is probably better than Rogaine! Look at all that hair growth!

[Elrathin]

haha...watching the video I realize that Meth is probably better than Rogaine! Look at all that hair growth!


shhhhh I can actually see them trying to do an infomercial on it :lmao:

[BoogyMan]

A bit more information about the consequences of steroid use.


Source: Link (http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/children-of-doping-athletes-deformed/2007/10/31/1193618974100.html)

Children of doping athletes deformed

THEY are the 69 children of a small part of the drugged generation of sporting stars. But instead of inheriting their parent's athletic ability, the children have been shown to have serious medical issues at rates much higher than that of the general population. Seven have physical deformities and four are mentally handicapped.

Frightening damage from East Germany's systematic doping of two decades of elite and promising sports stars in the 1970s and '80s has emerged in the next generation, according to the German researcher Giselher Spitzer.

A recently published two-year study of 52 Olympic and elite-level former East German athletes, now aged between 40 and 60, conducted by the Germany University, Humboldt, has revealed shocking medical consequences of the forced consumption of anabolic steroids.

Dr Spitzer said in addition to the high rate of physical and mental handicaps in the offspring of the 52 athletes, more than a quarter of the children have allergies and 23 per cent have asthma.

He said the risk of miscarriage and stillbirth in the athletes was a staggering 32 times higher than in the normal German population.

Dr Spitzer told the Play the Game conference in Iceland that the doped athletes, all of whom didn't know the "vitamins" they were forced to take on a daily basis were anabolic steroids, continued to be plagued with serious medical consequences.

He said 38 per cent had severe depression with suicidal tendencies and 32 of the 52 had had therapy for psychiatric issues. Dr Spitzer said the study revealed a quarter of those studied had suffered some form of cancer.

One of the former athletes, the cyclist Uwe Tromer, was part of the study and told German reporters "the retirement age I will no longer reach". He suffered a debilitating stroke a year ago.