{"id":2853,"date":"2014-05-13T13:07:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-06-19T14:17:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T21:17:22","slug":"australia-anabolic-steroid-users-worst-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitefitness.com\/articles\/australia-anabolic-steroid-users-worst-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia: The Anabolic Steroid Users Worst Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people think that the United States has the harshest anti-steroid laws and policies in the world.\u00a0 But there are a growing number of juicers who think that Australia\u2019s brutal stance on steroids far surpasses anything set forth by the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n

People who live in America have many things to be thankful for.\u00a0 For one, they have the right to speak their mind on stuff like political matters which is something that could get a person shot in other countries.\u00a0 Another advantage Americans enjoy is the economy since it is one of the richest in the world and gives US citizens a high standard of living.\u00a0 United States residents also have the luxury of living in a country that isn\u2019t stricken by civil wars and poverty.<\/p>\n

\"AustralianBut it\u2019s not all paradise in America since there are many freedoms which we cannot enjoy as well.\u00a0 And one of the main things that sticks out in my mind is the fact that we have some of the strictest drug laws in the world \u2013 especially when it comes to anabolic steroids!<\/p>\n

I find it amazing that a person who commits a violent crime can get a lesser sentence than someone who gets caught with a certain amount of steroids.\u00a0 And what\u2019s with people not being able to use roids for the cosmetic purpose of building muscle?\u00a0 Is it an absolute evil to use the ultimate form of muscle enhancement?\u00a0 No matter what I think about the matter, things don\u2019t seem to be getting any better in the US.\u00a0 I suppose they could get worse though... Like in Australia worse!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Australia may be the one place where juicers can claim to be more persecuted than American steroid users.\u00a0 In fact, the government of Australia even goes so far as to violate innocent people\u2019s privacy to catch athletes who use roids.\u00a0 A big controversy arose in the Land Down Under when the Australian Anti-Doping Authority went through Medicare prescription records to try and catch athletes who were juicing.<\/p>\n

This was a total violation of doctor-patient confidentiality code and was simply shrugged off by ASADA after it was reported what they were doing.\u00a0 When asked about their recent activities, the ASADA Chairman \u2013 Richard Ings \u2013 simply said, \u201cAn athlete who is getting anabolic steroids or other performance enhancing substances by prescription is committing sporting fraud unless they have an approved therapeutic reason for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the insanity doesn\u2019t end here since Australia has also been trying to find ways to predict steroid usage in certain athletes by scoping for illegal steroid intelligence and carrying out targeted operations.\u00a0 In addition to this, the Australian Anti-Doping Authority has also stepped up its efforts to collect more frozen urine samples so they bust athletes years down the road when nobody cares.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just athletes that the government is after and ASADA isn\u2019t the only ones trying to catch juicers.<\/p>\n

Australian Customs has also gotten into the act and they\u2019re doing their best to harass people coming into, and leaving, their country.\u00a0 The Australian Customs Department has already seized hundreds of packages containing roids with no end in sight.\u00a0 And the worst part is that these steroid search and seizures have absolutely nothing to do with keeping sports clean.<\/p>\n

Richard Janezcko, the Australian Customs investigative manager, said so himself when he stated, \u201cPeople who want to look good or are involved in all sorts of sporting activities like bodybuilding or weightlifting might do it.\u00a0 A lot of people in gyms use it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amazing! All of these searches and seizures being carried out so people can be prevented from trying to \u201clook good\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"SylvesterAnd it\u2019s not only the commoners who are the targets of these Australian Customs agents as this was proved last year with the Sylvester Stallone debacle.\u00a0 Upon landing in Sydney during his promotional tour for Rocky Balboa (sometimes called Rocky VI), Stallone was ambushed by Australian Customs when they held him and his entourage captive so they could search through the group\u2019s luggage. \u00a0World headlines were made when they found 48 vials of the HGH Jintropin in his belongings.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that Stallone has a medical condition which allows him to take the HGH, he was still fined $9,870 for the \u201coffense\u201d \u2013 though he did avoid the maximum penalty of a $91,500 fine and five years in prison for bringing non-licensed GH into Australia.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, not everyone gets off with as light of a punishment as Stallone did.<\/p>\n

Australia is just like the United States in that people can go to jail just for being in possession of a single pill.\u00a0 Possess a sizeable amount?\u00a0 You could be looking at an even larger amount of time spent in jail or even prison.\u00a0 Some of the fines can exceed $100,000 too!<\/p>\n

In the end, I\u2019m not really sure which country is worse with regards to steroids \u2013 Australia or the United States.\u00a0 It seems that Australia has really ramped up their efforts lately, but the US has been consistently bad throughout the years.\u00a0 It\u2019s really kind of a tossup at this point.
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