60 Minutes

[Hollow Man]

That was a sad story. A young confused kid with emotional problems taking too many drugs that he knew nothing about just to play baseball for the local high school. What a waste, especially when everyone knew what was going on and he still didn't get the help/support he needed. RIP

 

[jonny jacked]

"in his nightstand was a vial of hard core anabolic steroids..."

anyone want to clarify the difference between hard-core anabolic steroids and anabolic steroids?

 

[mikezal1]

Mental instability or depression are never a good mix with any drugs. It could have been Flintstone vitamins and the parents would be looking to point a finger, and take some of the blame of their consciences. I think that they definitely had an effect on the guy, but he had major problems before he started using.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

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



oh please......

Isn't unbiased hard hitting journalism wonderful? That kind of thing just warms the cockles of my heart and makes me want to ...





























vomit.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

I am still shaking my head at the "he wanted to be like his idols in MLB" angle they took. OMFG!!! This sickening coming from 60 minutes.

Oh, I dunno. I think this is rather typical of 60 minutes. Sensationalism always sells no matter how accurate it may or may not be.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

My wife and I watched that last night. It was sad on a few levels.

1) The needless death of a young teenaged boy
2) The perpetuation of the "roid rage" myth via eye witness testimony from the experts, namely the girlfriend and her parents and psychologist.
3) A psychiatrist so phenominially ignorant of the effects of ending a cycle of AAS as to not prescribe appropriate PCT and relied on the typical psycho-drugs. (not derogitorily intentional) It could be argued that this sudden drop of AAS by recommendation of that doctor directly contributed to the depression and resultant suicide.
4) A "plea" for why isn't anyone "doing" anything about this problem.
5) The manipulation by 60 minutes to present the argument that steroids caused the death of this young man because he wanted to be like his MLB idols.

*puts on straw hat, bib overhauls and bad country accent*
Gee, by golly willickers! The guvament needs to do something about these here steeroids, they're killin out yungins!!! It's a national epidemic acauze of I sawed it on 60 minutes and it's widespread all over our schools and sports! And that thar roid rage is a horrible horrible thing. If it wasn't for those steeroids he'd be a nice normal even tempered teenaged boy and never woulda kilt hisself. Ima gonna right my congressional man today and give him a piece of my mind!

Now, could you please hand me that pack of camels over there, and pick up that bag of pork rinds while you're a it, I just bought the dad gum things in the BIG BAG, and hand me that thar 2 liter bottle of JD. And while you're at it, could you hand me some of that pain medicine, my back is hurting something fierce. And maybe laterz on you culd go and git me something at the MickyDs, SUPERSIZE it in a cauzin I'm hungry. Oh, and could you hand me that thar remote, so's I don't hafta git up? I just can't mover around at 300lbs like I could when I was thinnuh... *end bad impression*

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Oh, and another thing before I put away my soap box. This kind of blue journalism is why I hold out little to no hope of the other program described in another thread is going to be put together any better. I fully expect the normal lemming journalism the US public is accustomed to.

 

[karachi183]

Depression and low testosterone in a young teen will do it. Just imagine one month ur fucking ur girl like no tomorrow pthen the next u can't even get it hard. To a kid this could me the end of the world and then not allowed to go out the kid flipped and it's sign that u need to be mentally prepared for juice. It's just like how many ppl here tripped on acid as a kid and knew a few kids who couldn't handle it and lost it. He wasn't mentally prepared for the ups and downs associted with juice. I persoanlly know a guy who juiced senior year in a NJ highschool did alot of juice got huge and a few years later couldn't hard anymore detrsoye his thyroid and now the poor dude is 5'10 and close to 350 or so and obese. In highschool he was around 180 or 190 and no where near fat. Well now the guy takes around 20 xanax bars a day along with a slew of other shit.... No one knows how much more this guy can live and survive like this.. Juice wil fuck u up if ur not mentally strong.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

The other thing that had me a bit ampy was that they told how the son came to the mother and pleaded with her to not ground him. That he would sign a contract, blah blah blah. The mother said she'd had enough and that he'd be grounded. So he reached out and grabbed her arm squeezing it, then went and committed suicide.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Depression and low testosterone in a young teen will do it. Just imagine one month ur fucking ur girl like no tomorrow pthen the next u can't even get it hard. To a kid this could me the end of the world and then not allowed to go out the kid flipped and it's sign that u need to be mentally prepared for juice. It's just like how many ppl here tripped on acid as a kid and knew a few kids who couldn't handle it and lost it. He wasn't mentally prepared for the ups and downs associted with juice. I persoanlly know a guy who juiced senior year in a NJ highschool did alot of juice got huge and a few years later couldn't hard anymore detrsoye his thyroid and now the poor dude is 5'10 and close to 350 or so and obese. In highschool he was around 180 or 190 and no where near fat. Well now the guy takes around 20 xanax bars a day along with a slew of other shit.... No one knows how much more this guy can live and survive like this.. Juice wil fuck u up if ur not mentally strong.

Things like that are very sad indeed. You'll find hundreds of more examples of this kind of things with kids and alchohol, and drugs. It's on TV so much, it's almost numbing to where it's not even noticeable. However, that isn't the smokescreen dejour. Right now it's AAS and the presidents crusade on them. Just ignore the man, meaning drugs and alchohol, behind the curtain...