There is a number of slang or street terms often used for steroids include abolic, anadrol, arnolds, georgia home boy, ghb (gamma hydroxybutyrate), gym candy, hype, juice, pumpers, roids, weight trainers, and stackers. Stacking is street term for taking steroids without a prescription. Anabolic steroids are often used by weightlifters, bodybuilders, athletes, and other sports persons to enhance their performance levels, power, and stamina.

Medically, anabolic steroids are often used to treat the disorders that occur due to abnormally low amounts of testosterone production in the body; some of the conditions include delayed puberty and some types of impotence. Anabolic steroids are also used treat uncontrolled weight loss in wasting diseases, such as AIDS and other diseases that result in loss of lean muscle mass.

Steroids help you live stronger and healthy life if they are used rightly at later age. Dr. Alan Mintz, the founder of the Las Vegas-based Cenegenics Medical Institute, says, “Under strict medical supervision, study after study has shown that steroids taken in low doses do not cause health problems. Nothing is going to make you live longer, but age management can help you live better.” However, steroid abuse or over-does may have serious side effects.

You can easily buy steroids from market. There is a wide range of steroids available on the market. Steroids are available as gels, pills, injections or creams. Some of steroids available on the market include Arimidex, Methandriol Dipropionate, Oxymetholone, Testosterone undecanoate, Cytomel, Testosterone Eenanthate, Boldenone Undeclynate, Tamoxifen, Nandrolone Phenylpropionate, Clomid, Clenbuterol, Dianabol, Gonadotropin, Testosterone Cypionate, Masteron, Parabolan, Primobolan, Nandrolone Decanoate, Turanabol, Trenabol, Proviron, Somatotropin, Oxandrolone, Steroids Cycles, Sustanon, and Testosterone Propionate.

You can buy steroids offline as well as online. There are numerous sites helping you buy steroids online. Internet offers you easy & convenient way to buy steroids. You can buy steroids from your home, office or any where using internet. It’s rather easy to buy steroids online. You just need a PC connected to Internet and you can buy steroids with few clicks of your mouse.

However, whenever you buy real steroids , always do make sure that you buy real steroids. Thus, you should always buy steroids from a genuine and reliable online drug store. Please don’t buy steroids from the sites that offer fake and counterfeit steroids. Also, please don’t buy steroids that are illegal in your respective countries.

Trenbolone enanthate is rated by one and all as the most popular and successful derivative of Trenbolone besides being the longest acting version of Trenbolone. This Tren derivative has an anabolic/androgenic ratio of 500:500 making it five times as potent as testosterone.

The chemical name of Trenbolone enanthate is 17beta-Hydroxyestra-4,9,11-trien-3-one and its molecular weight is 270.3706 g/mol at base. The active life of this Tren derivative is nearly 7-8 days and it is detectable within a period of approximately five months.

When used in doses of 300-600 mg per week for men for 6-8 weeks at a stretch, Tren enanthate promotes dramatic muscle mass, performance, and body strength gains. Use of this anabolic steroid does not lead to Tren cough, gynecomastia, and water retention and it is second to none for improving the levels of nutrient efficiency and mineral absorption in as short as 2-3 weeks.

By promoting protein synthesis and retention of nitrogen in the body, Tren enanthate helps sportsmen attain their goals without any troubles. This steroid is also suited to sportsmen who want to administer minimal injections without making a compromise on rock-solid results such as lean appearance, body strength, and muscle gains.

Trenbolone is available from the following manufacturers Maxpro , Thaiger Pharma , Global Anabolics and LA Pharma.

Oral Turinabol or Tbol has been rated as one of the most impressive and safest drugs by professional sportsmen on steroids. The fact that this anabolic steroid can be easily purchased online, with or without a prescription, these days is one of the biggest reasons why Oral Turinabol is getting more-and-more popular these days. Since it does not lead to any health complications unless abused indiscriminately or of a low grade, sportsmen are surely finding more than just a reason to trust and stay satisfied by making use of Oral Turinabol.

The anabolic steroid reduces the fatigue and recovery timeframes associated with intense workout sessions so that users can spend and benefit from efforts at the gym without feeling the heat.

This derivative of Methandrostenolone facilitates dramatic improvements in terms of muscle mass, muscle size, muscle function, performance, and endurance. When used in doses of 100-150 mg/day by men and 5-15 mg/day by women for a period of 6-8 weeks, Oral Turinabol (Tbol) helps users stay close to benefits of steroids in the best possible way. Use of this steroid doesn’t result in fluid retention and gynecomastia, which are common with most anabolic steroids.

Oral Turinabol comes in 10mgx100 tubs by Global Anabolics and Asia Pharma.

Led by the sacked government drugs adviser David Nutt with colleagues from the breakaway Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, the study says that if drugs were classified on the basis of the harm they do, alcohol would be class A, alongside heroin and crack cocaine.

Today’s paper, published by the respected Lancet medical journal, will be seen as a challenge to the government to take on the fraught issue of the relative harms of legal and illegal drugs, which proved politically damaging to Labour.

Nutt was sacked last year by the home secretary at the time, Alan Johnson, for challenging ministers’ refusal to take the advice of the official Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which he chaired. The committee wanted cannabis to remain a class C drug and for ecstasy to be downgraded from class A, arguing that these were less harmful than other drugs. Nutt claimed scientific evidence was overruled for political reasons.

The new paper updates a study carried out by Nutt and others in 2007, which was also published by the Lancet and triggered debate for suggesting that legally available alcohol and tobacco were more dangerous than cannabis and LSD.

Alcohol, in that paper, ranked fifth most dangerous overall. The 2007 paper also called for an overhaul of the drug classification system, but critics disputed the criteria used to rank the drugs and the absence of differential weighting.

Today’s study offers a more complex analysis that seeks to address the 2007 criticisms. It examines nine categories of harm that drugs can do to the individual “from death to damage to mental functioning and loss of relationships” and seven types of harm to others. The maximum possible harm score was 100 and the minimum zero.

Overall, alcohol scored 72 – against 55 for heroin and 54 for crack. The most dangerous drugs to their individual users were ranked as heroin, crack and then crystal meth. The most harmful to others were alcohol, heroin and crack in that order.

Nutt told the Guardian the drug classification system needed radical change. “The Misuse of Drugs Act is past its sell-by date and needs to be redone,” he said. “We need to rethink how we deal with drugs in the light of these new findings.”

For overall harm, the other drugs examined ranked as follows: crystal meth (33), cocaine (27), tobacco (26), amphetamine/speed (23), cannabis (20), GHB (18), benzodiazepines (15), ketamine (15), methadone (13), butane (10), qat (9), ecstasy (9), anabolic steroids (9), LSD (7), buprenorphine (6) and magic mushrooms (5).

The authors write: “Our findings lend support to previous work in the UK and the Netherlands, confirming that the present drug classification systems have little relation to the evidence of harm. They also accord with the conclusions of previous expert reports that aggressively targeting alcohol harm is a valid and necessary public health strategy.”

Nutt told the Lancet a new classification system “would depend on what set of harms ‘to self or others’ you are trying to reduce”. He added: “But if you take overall harm, then alcohol, heroin and crack are clearly more harmful than all others, so perhaps drugs with a score of 40 or more could be class A; 39 to 20 class B; 19-10 class C and 10 or under class D.” This would result in tobacco being labelled a class B drug alongside cocaine. Cannabis would also just make class B, rather than class C. Ecstasy and LSD would end up in the lowest drug category, D.

He was not suggesting classification was unnecessary: “We do need a classification system – we do need to regulate the ones that are very harmful to individuals like heroin and crack cocaine.” But he thought the UK could learn from the Portuguese and Dutch: “They have innovative policies which could reduce criminalisation.” Representatives of both countries will be at a summit in London today, called drug science and drug policy: building a consensus, where the study will be presented.

UK reformers will be hoping the coalition government will take a more evidence-based approach to classification and tackling drugs than Labour did. The Liberal Democrats supported Nutt over his sacking, while Conservative leader David Cameron, who got into trouble at Eton, aged 15, for smoking cannabis, acknowledged the Misuse of Drugs Act was not working during his time as an MP on the Home Affairs select committee.

Nutt called for far more effort to be put into reducing harm caused by alcohol, pointing out that its economic costs, as well as the costs to society of addiction and broken families, are very high. Taxation on alcohol is “completely inappropriate”, he said – with strong cider, for instance, taxed at a fifth of the rate of wine – and action should particularly target the low cost and promotion of alcohol such as Bacardi breezers to young people.

Don Shenker, the chief executive of Alcohol Concern, said : “What this study and new classification shows is that successive governments have mistakenly focused attention on illicit drugs, whereas the pervading harms from alcohol should have given a far higher priority. Drug misusers are still ten times more likely to receive support for their addiction than alcohol misusers, costing the taxpayer billions in repeat hospital admissions and alcohol related crime. Alcohol misuse has been exacerbated in recent years as government failed to accept the link between cheap prices, higher consumption and resultant harms to individuals and society.”

“[The] government should now urgently ensure alcohol is made less affordable and invest in prevention and treatment services to deal with the rise in alcohol dependency that has occurred.”

The Home Office said last night: “We have not read the report. This government has just completed an alcohol consultation and will publish a drugs strategy in the coming months.”

A Department of Health spokesperson said: “In England, most people drink once a week or less. If you’re a women and stick to two to three units a day or a man and drink up to three or four units, you are unlikely to damage your health. The government is determined to prevent alcohol abuse without disadvantaging those who drink sensibly.”Two experts from the Amsterdam National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and the Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research point out in a Lancet commentary the study does not look at multiple drug use, which can make some drugs much more dangerous – such as cocaine or cannabis together with alcohol – but they acknowledge the topic was outside its scope.

They add that because the pattern of recreational drug use changes, the study should be repeated every five or 10 years.

Seems the judge handling the Signature owners’ civil rights lawsuit agrees with me

Perish the thought.

Now, if we can get this judge to weigh in on Jeff Novitzky and the prosecutors who are continuing to go after Barry Bonds despite a seeming critical lack of evidence, we’ll be getting somewhere.

Steroids are bad, mmm-kay, but the zeal with which their use and distribution has been pursued by law enforcement and the expense that has gone into such a pursuit far, far outweighs the danger they pose.  Here’s hoping this isn’t the last judge who understands this and shoves it up wazoo of overzealous, media-hungry, careerist prosecutors.

Original Article By Craig Calcaterra

The UK Drug Policy Commission, which carried out the study, has called for a review of how drug services treat minority groups.

The report reviewed studies on illegal drug use in ethnic minority groups, disabled people and the LGBT community.

It found that people who identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual were three times more likely to have taken drugs in their lifetime than heterosexual people.

The review estimated that 75 per cent of LGB people had taken illegal drugs at least once, while between 30 and 50 per cent had taken them in the last year.

Findings from the British Crime Survey estimate that ten per cent of heterosexuals took drugs last year, compared with 33 per cent of gay or bisexual people.

Most of the research relates to gay men and the most popular drugs for this group were cannabis and poppers.

Gay men were found to be most likely to use poppers, while cannabis was the most popular drug for lesbians.

Gay men were also found to be at risk from abusing drugs such as steroids and Viagra and a 2000 study of gay men in London gyms found one in seven had used steroids in the last 12 months.

A number of studies have suggested that Viagra use in particular is linked with sexual risks.

Other drugs commonly taken were cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine, amphetamine and methamphetamine (crystal meth).

The review also found that the LGBT community were most likely to be “early adopters” of new drugs and may experience problems and side effects before the rest of the population.

However, the study authors warned that much of the evidence was “extremely limited and often of poor quality” and although the most comprehensive available, “should be interpreted with caution”.

There was little evidence available on drug abuse in bisexual and trans people.

Health services often focused on heroin and crack cocaine, the report said, meaning that problems with drugs in the LGBT community – which tends not to use these drugs – were often not adequately addressed.

It recommended that a ‘kite mark’ system be developed to mark out mainstream health services which demonstrate good practice in dealing with drug problems in the LGBT community and also suggested different approaches to raising awareness, such as internet sites, new social media campaigns and events at community venues.

Ruth Hunt, Stonewall’s head of policy, said: “We welcome the work of the Home Office and are pleased that the government is looking at how lesbian and gay people can be encouraged to seek help about drug abuse.

“The study confirms what Stonewall has known for some time – that LGB people use drugs more than heterosexual people but don’t feel able to seek advice from the health service.

“The NHS needs to target lesbian and gay people to encourage them to seek advice.”

Ms Hunt added that when LGB people wish to seek advice on drugs, they must first talk about their sexual health. She said this “completely excludes” lesbians.

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University of KwaZulu-Natal post-graduate Jarred Martin investigated the relationship between traditional masculine beliefs, body-image discrepancy and socio-cultural influences on appearance among Indian boys aged 13 to 19.

The study followed an earlier research project into body image among all race groups, in which Indian boys presented with high anxieties about their appearance compared with their black and white counterparts.

It also showed that other race groups perceived Indian boys as having a “softer” masculinity.

Among the latest findings:

• 57% of boys indicated they thought Bollywood films put pressure on males to look muscular;
• 5.5% had used or were using illegal steroids;
• 25% had used only legal supplements or drugs; and
• 79.3% believed that having a muscular frame was tied to enhanced feelings of self-worth.

The study found that steroid use peaked in boys who experienced issues with their body image and thought Bollywood films put pressure on men to look muscular.

Doctors, pharmacists, pedlars at local gyms, veterinary nurses and assistants were the main suppliers of steroids such as deca durabolin, dianabol and equipoise (a horse steroid).

Professor Yoga Coo-poo of the University of the Witwatersrand’s Centre for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine said the use of steroids had a number of ill-effects on young users, including muscle tears and reduced HDL – the high-density cholesterol that helps reduce heart disease.

“The Indian community generally has lower HDL levels, and a further decrease in it with the use of steroids creates greater risk of heart disease as they grow older,” said Coopoo.

Former and present steroid users who took part in the study and spoke to the Sunday Times Extra on condition of anonymity through Martin said they wanted to emulate Bollywood stars.

One said: “You see the guys like Salman Khan. This guy is so popular with girls. I wouldn’t mind looking like Khan.”

Another said: “The only way you can get like that is by using steroids.”

He added that Indian boys were perceived as “softer” because “we have such close families. I think they don’t believe we are independent guys, that we are just mommies’ boys.”

Martin said: “The way in which these cinematic heroes are portrayed is that they always get the girl. They get respect, adoration and envy from other men. It may be that Bollywood cinema, in its portrayal of its action heroes and leading men as muscular Adonises, simply capitalises on the anxieties of young boys about their masculinity and body image.”

Counselling psychologist Rakhi Beekrum said: “The six-pack is portrayed as being favourable and desirable among Bollywood stars – this can be seen in the shift from Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor to Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan, John Abraham and even Shahrukh Khan.”

Clinical psychologist Sherona Rawat said being perceived as “soft” was a “contributing factor in the young Indian male’s decision to use a substance that has been clinically proven to be dangerous and damaging to the body. The pull on South African males of Indian descent to prove themselves masculine in relation to their South African counterparts of other cultures and communities is understandable in this light.”

A Phoenix gym owner, who did not want to be named, agreed that Bollywood actors’ physiques had influenced youngsters to become “muscular and ripped”.

Mark Carter, a 27-year-old policeman from Huddersfield, was charged with two offences of sexual assault on males, one attempted sexual assault, one count of male rape and one count of attempted male rape.

The charges involve four different alleged victims.

He is also accused of possessing Class C drugs, which are thought to be bodybuilding steroids.

Leeds magistrates court heard that the alleged offences took place between December 18th and 19th 2009 at the Etap hotel in Leeds city centre.

Mr Carter has been bailed to appear before Leeds crown court later this month for the sexual assault charges and Leeds magistrates court in August for the drug charge.

He was named Mr Gay UK 2006 and came runner-up in the European contest in 2007.

He came out in 2005 and has served with Huddersfield Police for four years.

He has been suspended from his job as a policeman.

In four days of raids in September, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in the United States executed what is known as Operation Raw Deal, which involved the seizure of 56 laboratories in the US, more than 120 arrests, 1.4 million dosages of steroids and 256 kilograms of raw powder.

The DEA told The Times that Raw Deal was possible because of the co-operation from police from a long list of countries, many European, and also including Mexico, China, Colombia, Peru and Israel, but that the one country that resisted involvement was the United Kingdom.

“UK law enforcement was not involved in Raw Deal, much to our disappointment,” Rusty Payne, the DEA spokesperson, said. He also said there was evidence to suggest some of the trafficking had come through the UK.

“UK law enforcement had the opportunity,” he said. “When large international sporting events are taking place in a country in the next few years, then it surprises me that they are not interested now. We’ve done good work with the UK in other areas of drugs, but not with steroids.”

This revelation provides further condemning evidence of the esteem with which some of the international sports community view Britain’s approach to doping. Senior figures from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) raised fears in The Times about the ability of the 2012 Olympic hosts to fight doping when, unlike in many countries, possession of steroids is not a crime.

“The steroid laws are very good here in the US,” Payne said. “But from our standpoint, the laws in the UK are quite weak. There are many in the DEA here who think this is a problem. Maybe there isn’t enough teeth in your law. Weak drugs laws basically say: this isn’t a priority. In the US, steroids are only permissible under doctor’s prescription. Otherwise it’s a crime to possess, distribute or manufacture.”

The deaf ear that the UK turned to Raw Deal is a surprise, particularly because of repeated verbal commitments made in this country to involving the police and Revenue & Customs in fighting doping. Until recently, it was believed that more testing would win the war; that policy has been reversed to the extent that one of only two Wada-accredited laboratories in the UK lost its official status because it was not getting enough work. The idea was that funding would go into investigating the web of distributors rather than the urine samples of possible users.

Operation Raw Deal came on the back of Operation Gear Grinder that busted eight companies and 80 laboratories in Mexico. Gear Grinder showed that the Mexicans were producing and selling steroids from raw substances shipped in from China. “With Gear Grinder,” Payne said, “we thought we’d slain the dragon.”

However, the DEA soon realised that the US buyers were instead purchasing directly from China. It also discovered a plethora of amateur laboratories using bathtubs and bathroom sinks to convert raw steroid powders into the finished product using conversion kits purchased on the internet.

“Steroids and all the raw materials needed to make steroids all seem to come from one place, China,” Payne said. “We investigated 37 companies in China and have given that information to the Chinese police. They accepted that information and pledged to address it. I have cautious optimism that they will do.”

Payne is looking for similar co-operation from the UK. It may help that a working group on this subject was set up by Gerry Sutcliffe, the Sports Minister, this month, although this is not the first time that a pledge has been made to a joined-up approach to combating doping in the UK.

“We hope the UK will get involved in the future because this is not something that will go away,” Payne said. “This was not some smash-and-grab thing. This is a global problem and we cannot succeed without international co-operation.”

Yet it’s disturbing that an initiative announced yesterday by the UK Anti-Doping agency wants whistle-blowers to report suspected drug cheats.

The launch of a confidential 24-hour hotline encourages anonymous callers – athletes, coaches, support staff, and even concerned parents and friends – to provide tip-offs about those they think might be cheats, or supply and traffic in performance-enhancing substances.

At first sight this may appear sound. More cheats have been outed in the US on the evidence of whistle-blowers than by the tens of millions of dollars invested in anti-doping tests by the Olympic movement and World Anti-Doping Agency.

Informants presented evidence of a designer steroid and testimony about cheats. But in the US, those providing such evidence were all identified and examined individually, usually by the FBI. They did not remain anonymous. Significantly this triggered the Balco affair which exposed a raft of cheats, including multiple Olympic medallist Marion Jones who was jailed. Not for failing an anti-doping control, however (she passed 167 tests) but for lying to the FBI.

That the world’s greatest serial cheat should pass tests developed at a cost of millions explains UKAD’s latest initiative. Drug tests are not cost-effective.

I detest drug cheats with a passion, but it’s self-evident that the anonymous British system will be open to abuse, a charter for envious rivals to make malicious mischief and waste public money by dialing the Report Doping In Sport hotline (0800 032 2332) which will be staffed by Crimestoppers operators with appropriate training.

Evidence will be as suspect as that from underworld informers with an agenda. Any number of law-abiding members of the public can use steroids, beta blockers, or countless other substances which would be judged cheating in the sports arena, but not elsewhere. Some banned substances are legitimately used by athletes holding a valid therapeutic-use exemption certificate. Why would a whistle-blower be aware of who possesses one? Countless meaningless calls are guaranteed. Every athlete using an asthmatic inhaler or taking any kind of medication, TicTac or Parma Violet risks needless – and pointless – invasion of privacy.

Where will it end? Can’t stand that guy who beat me in the squash ladder last week. He’s jolly muscular. Must be on the gear.

UKAD chief executive Andy Parkinson believes clean athletes will be protected from malicious calls, “as we are going to verify that intelligence before we act on it”.

I think he is living in a dream world. Yet UKAD considers this a key tool in protecting the integrity of sport on the run-in to 2012.

It’s almost 20 years since I discussed with former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell the introduction of legislation to make possession of performance-enhancing drugs a criminal offence.

Sadly, that made as much impact as British Olympic Association chairman Lord Moynihan’s pre-election suggestion that police should raid the 2012 Olympic Village in search of drugs.

A former international sprinter, GB Olympic team captain, and honorary president of scottishathletics, Campbell felt the climate of opinion 20 years ago was insufficient to drive through legislation. It’s different now.

There is no reason why possession of steroids, growth hormone, stimulants, beta blockers and blood-boosting agents without a prescription should not be criminalised. The suggestion that this can’t be put on the legislative agenda in time is a fudge by politicians. Typically they want to be heard making the right noises, but lack the will to act.

If possession were criminalised it would also present an opportunity for sport bodies to deem convicted offenders unselectable by Britain. Though banned from the Olympics, cheats like Dwain Chambers and Carl Myerscough are still routinely chosen by UKA because of fears of legal action on grounds of restraint of trade.

Drink-drivers are barred from driving occupations. Police and lawyers can’t continue in such employment if they have a criminal conviction. Bankrupts can’t sit in the Lords. Precedent exists.

This is an opportunity to clean up sport in Britain for good. It would have more impact than the window-dressing of any hotline.

Herald Scotland