Awesome that Japan is forcing folks to become accountable.
Here in the U.S. where the drug companies are literally making BILLIONS on statins and treatment of obesity, the issue is not being addressed.
We all know that the "war on roids" is not about prevent some the healthiest people on earth from killing themselves, but, more about money. Baby boomers are now DEMANDING androgrens as opposed to bp meds, statins, and the like, because they WILL keep you healthier, longer, and you will look and FEEL better, with lower disease, and slower aging.
It's ironic, what happens in the US: Obesity kills 6.6 MILLION folks annually. Tobacco around 2 million folks, and alcohol...around 800,000. Now, the deaths from all illegal drug use, combined, only amount to about 3000, with ZERO of those deaths attributable to AAS. In a mortality study from UNT Texas, pro-level bodybuilders mortality was compared to average folks. Even at pro-level uses, the bodybuilders still had LOWER MORALITY than their non-using counter-parts. AAS, GH, and exercise, are remarkable at slowing aging to a crawl.
Despite a 35 year old "war on drugs", and a TRILLION dollars a year, street drugs are more accessible, purer, cheaper, and stronger, than ever before. HBO is now featuring the movie "American Drug War" or you can catch it on youtube. The movie documents the waste of humans, and money, that the so called "war on drugs" has produced. With over 2 MILLION folks in jail on any giving day, a trillion dollars a year, there is to end in sight to the "war on drugs".
In most countries possession of street drugs, and AAS, is not a crime, and, ironically, use rates are only 60% of what it is in the U.S.
If it was about saving lives, instead of lining corporate coffers, fat folks / out of shape folks would be given the attention they deserve in this country every day. Instead, the taxpayers spent 6 MILLION to hear a famous baseball player lie about his hormone use to Congress.
It seems to me, that our money, and our attention, as a society is grossly mis-directed.
In our federal prisons, 85%, or more, are there for non-violent, drug charges. Basically, it ends up being institutionalized slaveries for Corporate America.
It's interesting to note that that average juicehead profile is a white guys, late 20's on up, educated, above average income, fit to very fit, and VERY health conscious, and above average IQ.
If we are truly interested in saving LIVES, we need to outlaw fat folks (just joking). Jailing folks for putting something natural (testosterone) into their behinds, is something that should be criminal, not taking the test. Go figure. It's a fubar'd world sometimes.
I could be wrong, you never know, but, stats speak for themselves.