60 Minutes

[Optimus B]

what time was it on?


your time zone too please

7pm CST

 

[wend]

He was just a kid. Being an adolescent is difficult enough, without adding steroids to the mix. Placing blame, of course, is never fruitful. He might very well have ended up suffering depression without ever having used. But it is true that people can suffer depression post-cycle, while their natural test production is suppressed...in aging men this can happen naturally, and some psychiatrists are smart enough to identify it and prescribe HRT.

Kids should not be using steroids, and this story is just more evidence of that.

What sucks for responsible adult users, though, is that this boy's death is going to be turned into propaganda to vilify all AAS use.

 

[slash747]

Suicide in Youth
Carol Watkins, MD

According to the Surgeon General, a youth commits suicide every two hours in our country. In 1997, more adolescents died from suicide than AIDS, cancer, heart disease, birth defects and lung disease. Suicide claims more adolescents than any disease or natural cause. Adolescents now commit suicide at a higher rate than the national average of all ages. The rate of adolescent suicide in adolescent males has tripled between 1960 and 1980. Suicide rates for adolescent females have increased between two to three fold. There have been striking increases in suicidal behaviors among African American males, Native American males and children under 14. Much of the increase can be accounted for by deaths due to guns.

adolescent suicide is nothing out of the ordinary. Only difference is that the
teen in the CBS story was using AS. The fact that this teenager was using
AS is about as relevant as he was eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Its unfortunate that this kid lost his life but #1 he was too young to probably know what he was doing. Unfortunately his parents want to create a crusade
against steroids because they feel like it will compensate for their bad
parenting.

Oh and the kids friend that was in the video on the website is a dork.

This is a quote from the kids friend

Ajello says he couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw his friend working out at the gym.

“He's doing three sets of 10, three sets of 12 and just doing it like it's nothing," recalls Ajello, who said to himself, "Whoa. Like, you know, this stuff really works."

 

[chanmanfooagain]

prob had too much air in the needle?? not the AS , but the damn air! I dont know but that is my guess

dont know if you are joking or not but air will not hurt you at all.
foo

 

[Optimus B]

dont know if you are joking or not but air will not hurt you at all.
foo

~3mls of air in a blood vessel will kill you. 1 ml in the right place (like your aorta) will also fuck your shit up. but, the little air bubbles that may be in your syringe won't hurt you at all.

 

[Fina Junkie]

~3mls of air in a blood vessel will kill you. 1 ml in the right place (like your aorta) will also fuck your shit up. but, the little air bubbles that may be in your syringe won't hurt you at all.

I think this is incorrect. I read a post a while back where someone claiming to be a doctor said he regularly injected 10cc of air into a vein to check for a certain heart problems. I pretty sure i've read this similiar practice in other articles and posts. I don't plan on testing this out anytime soon though. I wouldn't want to inject anything into a vein. Aspirate !

 

[JLAWz]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/02/60II/main603502.shtml

This is a sad story though!
It reminds me of my best friend that killed himself a little over a year ago.

 

[Optimus B]

I think this is incorrect. I read a post a while back where someone claiming to be a doctor said he regularly injected 10cc of air into a vein to check for a certain heart problems. I pretty sure i've read this similiar practice in other articles and posts. I don't plan on testing this out anytime soon though. I wouldn't want to inject anything into a vein. Aspirate !

hey bro, venous air embolism is pretty serious.
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/en.asp?TopicID=13&AreaID=3564&LinkID=2639

it doesn't say just exactly how much air is dangerous though.

 

[chewyxrage]

"Wrapped in an American flag in his nightstand was a vial of hard-core anabolic steroids. "



oh please......

 

[Fina Junkie]

hey bro, venous air embolism is pretty serious.
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/en.asp?TopicID=13&AreaID=3564&LinkID=2639

it doesn't say just exactly how much air is dangerous though.

I agree it's dangerous. I recall reading in a few places that it takes several cc's of air. Like i said earlier, I don't plan on injecting anything into a vein