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http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071021/SPORTS/710210423 (http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071021/SPORTS/710210423)
Frank Eltman
The Associated Press
Farmingdale, N.Y. — A mom worries about the pressures on her 17-year-old son. A prosecutor frets the problem may be worse than anyone imagines. And a former Mr. Universe predicts law enforcement crackdowns will succeed about as well as Prohibition.
While Marion Jones and Barry Bonds create the biggest headlines in the steroids scandals that have roiled professional sports, many believe the problem is far more prevalent among amateur athletes in America's schoolyards and gyms, thanks in part to the easy availability of performance-enhancing drugs.
Whipping up a batch of "juice" in your kitchen or a makeshift lab could not be easier; the correct clicks on Internet sites provide not only the raw materials, but instructions on how it's done.
The magnitude of the problem became clearer last month when federal authorities rounded up 124 suspects and busted 56 steroid labs nationwide. They seized $6.5 million in cash and 11.4 million steroid doses, as well as 242 kilograms of raw steroid powder believed to be from China.
Agents had one of their largest hauls on Long Island, seizing nearly 2.5 million doses of steroids with a street value of $13 million. One group of suspects operated the "Strong Island Underground Lab," located above an auto body shop.
"People think it's only the multimillion-dollar athletes, the Barry Bonds," Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said. "And that's fine if professional athletes want to do that, but they have to understand they serve as role models for our little kids. I would not be surprised if it turns out that these steroids are going to the local high schools, the high school gyms."
In a separate investigation, New York state officials seized $7.5 million of human growth hormone and anabolic steroids from a Brooklyn pharmacy this month. They said that raid was an offshoot of the Albany County District Attorney's investigation into an Orlando, Fla., company whose client lists reportedly included many professional athletes.
But it appears many others are getting their hands on steroids by more covert means.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey of high school students throughout the United States in 2005 found that nearly 5 percent reported using steroids without a doctor's prescription. And a 2006 Monitoring the Future Study revealed 17 percent of eighth-graders, 30 percent of 10th-graders, and 41 percent of 12th-graders reported that steroids were "fairly easy" or "very easy" to obtain.
Darlene Iaquinta of Melville said her 17-year-old son A.J. is an athlete who has rejected the lure of performance-enhancing drugs. But she understands that the temptation exists, especially as sports become more competitive.
"I think the pressure for them to excel in their sport is such — to get the scholarship, to go to college — that they're looking for any edge that they can get," she said during a break in her own workout routine at a Long Island gym.
"And quite frankly, so are the parents. And if they think steroids will do it, then they're going to use that, unfortunately."
Steve Mihalik, a former bodybuilding champion crowned both Mr. America and Mr. Universe in the 1970s, said he too has seen the pressure on young people to "juice." He recalled a teenage pitcher told to get the speed up on his fastball by a major league scout.
"He comes back to the gym and he's all buffed up," Mihalik said. "And he admits to me that he took steroids with his father's approval, because it means dollars."
Mihalik, who once used steroids but now advocates for a clean workout regimen, is dubious of law enforcement crackdowns. He predicted the recent sweeps across the country will do little to stem the flow of steroids.
"I was thinking back to the days of Prohibition, where the government spends thousands, maybe millions of dollars in manpower and money and effort in a losing cause," the muscular 59-year-old personal trainer lamented. "Because you can't stop people from doing what they want to do."
He said legalization and regulation are the only remedies, and warns that taking a substance whipped up in some guy's basement carries its own peril.
"Who knows what impurity you're injecting into your bloodstream?" he said.
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Steve Mihalik, one of the biggest dorks around.
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Epic hypocrisy.
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He said legalization and regulation are the only remedies,
Isn't this what everyone wants? Access to medically supervised cycles?
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He's a whining little bitch.
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Snack The Monkey
Stupid things bodybuilders do and eat and have sex with.
Twenty eggs, a loaf of toast, and a 12-ounce steak at a sitting. Bodybuilders are known for their unusual eating habits, but…monkey brains?
Steve Michalik, Mr. Universe 1975, shudders to recall his bad old days as a skin-popping juice pig. Anadrol, Dianabol, and other steroids had taken him to the title, but Michalik noticed that his body had begun to plateau. Upping his dosage to Presleyan proportions, he still couldn’t pack on the meat mass he craved. So he struck out for the hardcore fringe in search of the next big thing.
He found it in a monkey’s head, drinking the hormone-rich goop that flowed out of the hypothalamus gland. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
Michalik is the first to admit he was pretty far gone by the time he started snacking on monkey brains. When he wasn’t throwing people through windows or bashing trucks in with 300-pound railroad ties, Michalik pimped for the physician who supplied him with his precious black-market prescriptions.
Aspiring bodybuilders “had to find out sooner or later that the road to the title went through Dr. X’s office,” Michalik told the Village Voice in 1991. With the doctor’s lock on such high-end supplements as Primobolan and Parabolin, “nobody was gonna get to be competition size unless they put out for him.” In exchange for a stack of steroid scrips, Michalik brokered love connections for the doctor with a string of title hopefuls.
The doctor’s drugs were so powerful, “you felt them immediately in your muscles,” Michalik recalled.
And then there were their sexual side effects, including almost constant erections. “One of my friends, a former Mr. America, used to get so horny on tour that he’d fuck the Coke machine in his hotel,” Michalik said. “Swear to God, he’d stick his dick right in the change slot and bang it for all he was worth.”
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After watching Steve Mihalik on "The Man Whose Arms Exploded", it's hard for me to have a lot of respect for what he says, but he is making a valid point here. He previously said steroids lead to heart disease and cancer, both of which are easily disproved. Wasn't he clinically insane?
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I love how these guys who previously used juice come out and start bashing it once their career fades away.
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Mihalik is a hypocrite.
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He could be the poster boy for steroid abuse. He is a total hypocrite. Just watch the "The Man Whose Arms Exploded" about Valentino.
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Mihalik is a hypocrite.
yup
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He could be the poster boy for steroid abuse. He is a total hypocrite. Just watch the "The Man Whose Arms Exploded" about Valentino.
Not to mention Michalik is STILL on steroids!
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From what I recall, Michalik had an interesting way of avoiding doing G4P.
Instead, Michalik would act teh pimp. Send guys from his gym to some gay doctor in trade for juice.
Just shit I've heard. But so much stories about Michalik... Almost like with Podda.
Perhaps Arvilla could ask his current boss about all this stuff. Defendis was trained by Michalik for awhile.
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he is right though. legalization and regulation..it would be nice
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From what I recall, Michalik had an interesting way of avoiding doing G4P.
Instead, Michalik would act teh pimp. Send guys from his gym to some gay doctor in trade for juice.
Just shit I've heard. But so much stories about Michalik... Almost like with Podda.
Perhaps Arvilla could ask his current boss about all this stuff. Defendis was trained by Michalik for awhile.
That’s about as believeable as Ted Haggard’s, “I bought the meth, but I didn’t use it... I threw it away.” Or he called the Mike Jones but only for a massage. If you believe either one, I have a bridge you might want to buy.
The article says it all. The road to the big muscles and titles went through Dr. X’s office. Nobody was gonna get to be competition size unless they put out for him. :-[
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I'm surprised he's still alive.
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Aspiring bodybuilders “had to find out sooner or later that the road to the title went through Dr. X’s office,” Michalik told the Village Voice in 1991. With the doctor’s lock on such high-end supplements as Primobolan and Parabolin, “nobody was gonna get to be competition size unless they put out for him.” In exchange for a stack of steroid scrips, Michalik brokered love connections for the doctor with a string of title hopefuls.
It's amazing how you always have to read between the lines when hustlers like Mihalik say something.
This guy makes it sound like there was only one doctor in the world and he happened to be a gay john. What Mihalik is really saying is that the way to get "Free" steroids was to service Dr. Feelyhands. These same bodybuilders could've found some other doctor to write the scripts, but that would've involved handing over cash.
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This guy had a chemical imbalance long before he touched a needle.
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From what I recall, Michalik had an interesting way of avoiding doing G4P.
Instead, Michalik would act teh pimp. Send guys from his gym to some gay doctor in trade for juice.
Just shit I've heard. But so much stories about Michalik... Almost like with Podda.
Perhaps Arvilla could ask his current boss about all this stuff. Defendis was trained by Michalik for awhile.
Supposedly Steve was the gay pimp. According to an article I read, doctors would write him scripts in exchange for hooking up the doctor with an "up and coming" bodybuilder. These were the words out of Steve's mouth.
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trevor smith used to work out at steve's gym, if I remember right he had a "syringe pen" to sign in with and a sign by the front desk that said "up the dosage".....really, as a natural BB all I have to say to him is shut the fuck up.
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Supposedly Steve was the gay pimp. According to an article I read, doctors would write him scripts in exchange for hooking up the doctor with an "up and coming" bodybuilder. These were the words out of Steve's mouth.
BayGBM refuses to believe this.
That?s about as believeable as Ted Haggard?s, ?I bought the meth, but I didn?t use it... I threw it away.? Or he called the Mike Jones but only for a massage. If you believe either one, I have a bridge you might want to buy.
The article says it all. The road to the big muscles and titles went through Dr. X?s office. Nobody was gonna get to be competition size unless they put out for him. :-[
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BayGBM refuses to believe this.
Do you believe Mihalik when he says he only brokered the love connections for "other" body builders?
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Do you believe Mihalik when he says he only brokered the love connections for "other" body builders?
Aspiring bodybuilders “had to find out sooner or later that the road to the title went through Dr. X’s office,” Michalik told the Village Voice in 1991. With the doctor’s lock on such high-end supplements as Primobolan and Parabolin, “nobody was gonna get to be competition size unless they put out for him.” In exchange for a stack of steroid scrips, Michalik brokered love connections for the doctor with a string of title hopefuls.
I'm still trying to figure out how one gay doctor had the market cornered on Primobolan and Parabolin.
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I'm still trying to figure out how one gay doctor had the market cornered on Primobolan and Parabolin.
hahhah, its amazing how much people need to believe in this myth...It is some kind of weird homophobic panic. It always comes up from disgruntled bodybuilders. Statistically it just does not ad up.
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I'm still trying to figure out how one gay doctor had the market cornered on Primobolan and Parabolin.
Exactly, and the doc wouldn't have been able to write a script for Parabolan anyway - it was a French drug! Bunch of baloney from liar Michalik.
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Exactly, and the doc wouldn't have been able to write a script for Parabolan anyway - it was a French drug! Bunch of baloney from liar Michalik.
That's right, I don't think it was ever sold in the states legitimately (from a real human grade FDA aproved lab)