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Growing nightmare
of steroid abuse
Athletes' cocktail big in nation's gyms
By WILLIAM SHERMAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Body-boosting steroids are a growing health crisis.
Bodybuilder Butch Nieves
From weekend gym rats to amateur bodybuilders to multimillionaire pro athletes, abuse of black market steroids is a growing health crisis, a Daily News investigation has found.
It is a crisis fueled by easy availability of the drugs and lax enforcement of laws controlling their use, experts say.
"It's rampant in baseball," said Dr. Neil Roth, an orthopedic surgeon and assistant professor of surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
"The players and the team owners have sold their souls to the devil with steroids, and I know, because I've been treating professional athletes since 1986," said Dr. Elliott Pellman, chairman of the medical department of the New York Jets and the medical director for the New York Islanders.
Taken to build muscle and endurance, anabolic steroids can cause impotence, boils and acne, liver and kidney damage, heart disease, depression and rage. Yet the News probe found that an increasing number of men, women and adolescents in the city are abusing them.
Just how easy is it to score steroids on the street?
A few phone calls, and a News reporter quickly made two connections for $280 worth.
The first lot, two bottles of synthetic testosterone with other additives, was acquired through an intermediary who said he gets the steroids from Russian hoodlums in Brooklyn.
The juice, as its called, came from Russia, according to the intermediary, and the writing on the labels was in Russian.
The second lot, also testosterone, was acquired from a user/dealer who said he has a tried and true Internet source where he maintains an active account.
"Weightlifters, bodybuilders, college athletes, professional athletes — steroids are everywhere," Roth said.
"The baseball players are pretty honest about it, and I ask them, because when I operate I have to know, and it's common knowledge that players are using," he said.
Risk of injury climbs
Most steroid users cycle — injecting the drugs for six or eight weeks, then stopping for several months to avoid dangerous side effects.
But Roth said that all steroid users compromise their health no matter how carefully they administer the drugs.
"It doesn't work, and I see the results," he said.
Patients on steroids, including professional athletes, frequently suffer muscle and tendon tears and end up on Roth's operating table.
Pellman and Roth said the muscle mass increased by anabolic steroids means an increased risk of injury because the muscle load becomes too big for the skeleton.
Neither doctor would identify athletes they have treated who use steroids.
Jay Horowitz, spokesman for the Mets, said, "The team management has no knowledge of any player on steroids." Rick Cerrone, spokesman for the Yankees, did not return calls. Officials of the Jets and Islanders said Pellman speaks for the teams.
Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League do not require testing for steroids. In the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Collegiate Athletic Association and Olympics, testing is mandatory.
Although use or possession of steroids without a prescription is illegal and can result in prison time, just about every type — and there are many — is easily available in the city, The News found.
'Juice' busts few
Arrest and prosecution for steroid sale and possession is a low priority, according to spokesmen for several agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Customs Service.
The street sources for juice include conventional drug dealers, Russian mobsters who specialize in steroid sales and more casual entrepreneurs who work the major bodybuilding gyms, according to law enforcement officials.
And there are dozens of steroid mail-order Internet sites. After providing a credit card number or money order, customers will receive the drugs in an unmarked package, almost always from countries such as Mexico, where steroids are legal.
Testosterona Ultra from Argentina and Anadrol from Spain are shipped by Express Mail. One site promises that "valid" prescriptions in the United States will be provided for a $149 fee.
For Michael, 25, a bookkeeper, the Internet offers the best bargains. "You're cutting out middlemen, two or three middlemen, so it's a better deal," he said.
"I've been using since I was 17 and a junior in high school," said Michael, who deals steroids and like others in this story asked that his last name not be used.
He said he began using steroids to improve his performance as a quarterback on his high school football team and as a pitcher on the baseball team.
"Before I started with steroids, I was the same height and I weighed 170. I'm using Deca [Deca Durabolin] and then this other steroid to make sure I don't get bloated with water weight," he said.
He is 6-feet-3 and weighs 220 pounds, toned, with low body fat and muscles defined by bulging veins. "I look good, and the steroids help me tone up quicker for the beach," Michael said.
He's aware of the side effects but said the price is worth the payoff.
"When you're a kid and you start, you don't think about it. I just got a little bit of acne. And I'm going to stop because I know that, like, it's not really making me more attractive. I mean, it is, but it's also making me intimidating-looking to some girls."
'I feel incredible'
While enhanced performance for professional athletes can bring victories and big money, for amateurs like Michael, it's mostly about looking good.
"Man, I put on 18 pounds in eight weeks, muscle, ripped, man, and I'm shooting one cc of testosterone a week," said Ray, 25, of Brooklyn.
"I feel incredible, and I'm big. It costs me $250 for six weeks," he said, adding that some users spend up to $1,000 a week for combinations of steroids and human growth hormone.
At Johnny Lats gym on E. 17th St., a man named John pointed to photos of massive male and female professional bodybuilders on the wall.
"They all work out here, man, and no way you can get that big without using," he said. His forehead is covered with acne, and his chest, shoulders and arms are massive — too big for his frame. "Hey, man, you can't get ripped, you can't get a perfectly ripped abdomen without using steroids, and the worst thing that ever happened, man, is when they made steroids illegal, made 'em a controlled substance."
At another gym, the Iron Kingdom, on White Plains Road in the Bronx, owner Hiram (Butch) Nieves said he doesn't allow steroid dealers.
"Kids are listening to the hype. They ask about steroids, and I say no," he said. "I explain the side effects and that if you work out properly you can get big, you can win a competition, but you won't look like the professionals in the magazines without steroids. No way."
Nieves, 41, is a former Mr. America and Mr. USA, with a chest and arms to match his titles. In his prime, six years ago, he said, he bench-pressed 507 pounds and was able to dead-lift 700 pounds, meaning he picked it up off the ground without squatting.
"My own use, when I was competing, in the '90s, I don't want to say anything, but I'll tell you, right now, I feel like a shrimp next to the professional bodybuilders today," he said.
Nieves said the steroid black market is huge. "I could make a call and get whatever you wanted here in a hour," he said. "It's that easy."
of steroid abuse
Athletes' cocktail big in nation's gyms
By WILLIAM SHERMAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Body-boosting steroids are a growing health crisis.
Bodybuilder Butch Nieves
From weekend gym rats to amateur bodybuilders to multimillionaire pro athletes, abuse of black market steroids is a growing health crisis, a Daily News investigation has found.
It is a crisis fueled by easy availability of the drugs and lax enforcement of laws controlling their use, experts say.
"It's rampant in baseball," said Dr. Neil Roth, an orthopedic surgeon and assistant professor of surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
"The players and the team owners have sold their souls to the devil with steroids, and I know, because I've been treating professional athletes since 1986," said Dr. Elliott Pellman, chairman of the medical department of the New York Jets and the medical director for the New York Islanders.
Taken to build muscle and endurance, anabolic steroids can cause impotence, boils and acne, liver and kidney damage, heart disease, depression and rage. Yet the News probe found that an increasing number of men, women and adolescents in the city are abusing them.
Just how easy is it to score steroids on the street?
A few phone calls, and a News reporter quickly made two connections for $280 worth.
The first lot, two bottles of synthetic testosterone with other additives, was acquired through an intermediary who said he gets the steroids from Russian hoodlums in Brooklyn.
The juice, as its called, came from Russia, according to the intermediary, and the writing on the labels was in Russian.
The second lot, also testosterone, was acquired from a user/dealer who said he has a tried and true Internet source where he maintains an active account.
"Weightlifters, bodybuilders, college athletes, professional athletes — steroids are everywhere," Roth said.
"The baseball players are pretty honest about it, and I ask them, because when I operate I have to know, and it's common knowledge that players are using," he said.
Risk of injury climbs
Most steroid users cycle — injecting the drugs for six or eight weeks, then stopping for several months to avoid dangerous side effects.
But Roth said that all steroid users compromise their health no matter how carefully they administer the drugs.
"It doesn't work, and I see the results," he said.
Patients on steroids, including professional athletes, frequently suffer muscle and tendon tears and end up on Roth's operating table.
Pellman and Roth said the muscle mass increased by anabolic steroids means an increased risk of injury because the muscle load becomes too big for the skeleton.
Neither doctor would identify athletes they have treated who use steroids.
Jay Horowitz, spokesman for the Mets, said, "The team management has no knowledge of any player on steroids." Rick Cerrone, spokesman for the Yankees, did not return calls. Officials of the Jets and Islanders said Pellman speaks for the teams.
Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League do not require testing for steroids. In the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Collegiate Athletic Association and Olympics, testing is mandatory.
Although use or possession of steroids without a prescription is illegal and can result in prison time, just about every type — and there are many — is easily available in the city, The News found.
'Juice' busts few
Arrest and prosecution for steroid sale and possession is a low priority, according to spokesmen for several agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Customs Service.
The street sources for juice include conventional drug dealers, Russian mobsters who specialize in steroid sales and more casual entrepreneurs who work the major bodybuilding gyms, according to law enforcement officials.
And there are dozens of steroid mail-order Internet sites. After providing a credit card number or money order, customers will receive the drugs in an unmarked package, almost always from countries such as Mexico, where steroids are legal.
Testosterona Ultra from Argentina and Anadrol from Spain are shipped by Express Mail. One site promises that "valid" prescriptions in the United States will be provided for a $149 fee.
For Michael, 25, a bookkeeper, the Internet offers the best bargains. "You're cutting out middlemen, two or three middlemen, so it's a better deal," he said.
"I've been using since I was 17 and a junior in high school," said Michael, who deals steroids and like others in this story asked that his last name not be used.
He said he began using steroids to improve his performance as a quarterback on his high school football team and as a pitcher on the baseball team.
"Before I started with steroids, I was the same height and I weighed 170. I'm using Deca [Deca Durabolin] and then this other steroid to make sure I don't get bloated with water weight," he said.
He is 6-feet-3 and weighs 220 pounds, toned, with low body fat and muscles defined by bulging veins. "I look good, and the steroids help me tone up quicker for the beach," Michael said.
He's aware of the side effects but said the price is worth the payoff.
"When you're a kid and you start, you don't think about it. I just got a little bit of acne. And I'm going to stop because I know that, like, it's not really making me more attractive. I mean, it is, but it's also making me intimidating-looking to some girls."
'I feel incredible'
While enhanced performance for professional athletes can bring victories and big money, for amateurs like Michael, it's mostly about looking good.
"Man, I put on 18 pounds in eight weeks, muscle, ripped, man, and I'm shooting one cc of testosterone a week," said Ray, 25, of Brooklyn.
"I feel incredible, and I'm big. It costs me $250 for six weeks," he said, adding that some users spend up to $1,000 a week for combinations of steroids and human growth hormone.
At Johnny Lats gym on E. 17th St., a man named John pointed to photos of massive male and female professional bodybuilders on the wall.
"They all work out here, man, and no way you can get that big without using," he said. His forehead is covered with acne, and his chest, shoulders and arms are massive — too big for his frame. "Hey, man, you can't get ripped, you can't get a perfectly ripped abdomen without using steroids, and the worst thing that ever happened, man, is when they made steroids illegal, made 'em a controlled substance."
At another gym, the Iron Kingdom, on White Plains Road in the Bronx, owner Hiram (Butch) Nieves said he doesn't allow steroid dealers.
"Kids are listening to the hype. They ask about steroids, and I say no," he said. "I explain the side effects and that if you work out properly you can get big, you can win a competition, but you won't look like the professionals in the magazines without steroids. No way."
Nieves, 41, is a former Mr. America and Mr. USA, with a chest and arms to match his titles. In his prime, six years ago, he said, he bench-pressed 507 pounds and was able to dead-lift 700 pounds, meaning he picked it up off the ground without squatting.
"My own use, when I was competing, in the '90s, I don't want to say anything, but I'll tell you, right now, I feel like a shrimp next to the professional bodybuilders today," he said.
Nieves said the steroid black market is huge. "I could make a call and get whatever you wanted here in a hour," he said. "It's that easy."
this
makes me fucking sick!!!!!!!!
there has got to be millions upon millions of recreational users, let alone all the collegiate and pro athletes and we have to scury about like rats in the cupboards for laws we didn't even vote for.
And again since there are millions and millions of users how many crimes are tied to these users from thier so called "steriod abuse". LOL NONE!
Yeah steriods can cause acne, liver damage and other things but so can all those drugs they peddle on tv nowadays. We see the disclaimers on the bottom of the screen saying don't take celebrex if you have this or that, should they be outlawed to?
No crimes tied to us but the crime of using. That is illogical. Making criminals out of otherwise hardworking decent citizens who should have the right to do with their body what they please.
They can't use the argument of health care crisis otherwise they would ban fast food.
My bet is the billions and billions supplement companies make is behind steriods being illegal. Thats alot of political money to spend and alot of money to throw at media smear campaigns.
I wish the greedy american pharmacy companies would start manufacturing gear, they have enough money and power to make it legal again!
makes me fucking sick!!!!!!!!
there has got to be millions upon millions of recreational users, let alone all the collegiate and pro athletes and we have to scury about like rats in the cupboards for laws we didn't even vote for.
And again since there are millions and millions of users how many crimes are tied to these users from thier so called "steriod abuse". LOL NONE!
Yeah steriods can cause acne, liver damage and other things but so can all those drugs they peddle on tv nowadays. We see the disclaimers on the bottom of the screen saying don't take celebrex if you have this or that, should they be outlawed to?
No crimes tied to us but the crime of using. That is illogical. Making criminals out of otherwise hardworking decent citizens who should have the right to do with their body what they please.
They can't use the argument of health care crisis otherwise they would ban fast food.
My bet is the billions and billions supplement companies make is behind steriods being illegal. Thats alot of political money to spend and alot of money to throw at media smear campaigns.
I wish the greedy american pharmacy companies would start manufacturing gear, they have enough money and power to make it legal again!
Bonecrusher
New member
Well here is a quick thought. If this news guy is so concerned about steroids why is he out perpetuating crime ?
"A few phone calls, and a News reporter quickly made two connections for $280 worth."
Looks like if you guys want to keep him quite we just need to turn him in. He admitted to an illegal crime and printed it for the whole world to see, let's put him on the otherside of the fence and see what his opinion is.
Then if nothing becomes of it because he is a reporter then I think it is time for George to start the Elitefitness Newspaper and make all members reporters so if anyone were to find themselves in trouble they could say it was all for a research article they were doing for Elitefitness Newspaper and they were just using it to report their findings.
Peace my Brothers
"A few phone calls, and a News reporter quickly made two connections for $280 worth."
Looks like if you guys want to keep him quite we just need to turn him in. He admitted to an illegal crime and printed it for the whole world to see, let's put him on the otherside of the fence and see what his opinion is.
Then if nothing becomes of it because he is a reporter then I think it is time for George to start the Elitefitness Newspaper and make all members reporters so if anyone were to find themselves in trouble they could say it was all for a research article they were doing for Elitefitness Newspaper and they were just using it to report their findings.
Peace my Brothers
This makes my stomach turn to read this mess, and the worst part of it is the egg heads that want to look big and say yeah man i can have what ever you want in 1 hour or the stupid people that went and bought gear for HBO, mexicans that lead the HBO news people around saying yes you can buy it here just like the baseball players do you know after you buy from them they would set you up at the border for 5.00 or less and then the stupid players that admit to doing juice and telling names of others GRRRRRRR sorry for the rambling.
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ryker77
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So WHAT at anytime I can go to a doctor and pay 60-80 for any office visit. Tell him I have back pain and in under 5 minutes I'll have a script for 3 months of pain killers. No exam or xray. Just pay and go. Doc-N-box for legal DRUGS.
Burning_Inside
Elite Mentor
Golfer18 said:
how many people beat the hell out of someone else or caused harm to household appliances and people in general cause of weed rage?
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