Senators and congressmen say: "DHEA CAUSES CANCER" BAN IT!

[BrooklynBB]

Senators pushing for new laws to combat steroids, HGH
By Sports Network
The Sports Network

U.S. lawmakers continue to respond to the fallout from last week's release of the Mitchell Report, and Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) are now pushing for stiffer criminal penalties for use and possession of performance-enhancing drugs.

Schumer and Grassley announced a set of proposals, acknowledging the problem that human growth hormone (HGH) is not a controlled substance. HGH is regulated by other laws, but it is not currently illegal to possess HGH, nor is its manufacturing process as closely regulated as that of anabolic steroids.

Schumer's proposal, entitled S.877, would add HGH as a Schedule III substance, equating it with anabolic steroids under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). That requires all legitimate manufacturers, distributors and dispensers of any controlled substance to register with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA.) Manufacturers must keep data on production and disposal of their substances, including information on both sales and destruction.

Basically, without a current, valid prescription, HGH would be deemed illegal. Penalties for possession could be as high as three years imprisonment, depending on the circumstances of the case.

Grassley's proposal (S.2470) addresses the growing popularity of a performance-enhancing substance known as dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). Also used as an anti-aging supplement, DHEA is a naturally-occurring precursor to testosterone, and a dietary supplement that some athletes are turning to as an alternative to illegal anabolic steroids. DHEA increases muscle mass, but could cause liver damage and cancer. Grassley's proposal would make it illegal to sell DHEA without a prescription to anyone under the age of 18.

"The real tragedy of the Mitchell Report is that it shows how easy it is to beat the system," Schumer said. "The majority of players named in the report are accused of taking human growth hormone, a drug for which there is currently no reliable test. We have to do everything we can to keep dangerous substances out of young hands. Together, these two bills are a big step in that direction."

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, approximately 10 percent of high school athletes have experimented with or are regular users of anabolic steroids.

"These bills are a good step at getting at some of the issues we are seeing as athletes of all ages use performance enhancing drugs," Grassley said. "I'm hopeful that the sports industry will heed the wake up call and do something to deal with this problem. Professional sports figures need to realize that they are role models. It's time they shape up "without the drugs."

The House committee on Oversight and Government Reform has already scheduled a hearing on steroid use by Major League Baseball players, set for January 15 in the nation's capital. The subcommittee on commerce, trade and consumer protection has a hearing slated for January 23 on a similar issue.

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By the way, can someone please identify the bodybuilder they used in this picture below? And does anyone know they context in which they decided to use this guy as an example? I'm sure he died and they're blaming it on roids, or perhaps he murdered someone and it was GH overdose?

 

[champ00]

ciggeretts cause cancer they should ban them

 

[shoestring]

ciggeretts cause cancer they should ban them

IF steroids netted the govenment billions every year in revenues like cigaretts , they would be sold in every 711.

 

[Tom]

such bullshit

and what percent of highschool kids have experimented with alcohol? now there's a safe drug with no health implications!!!

 

[Ryce]

This is all getting seriously out of hand. I dont even think congress is basing its decisons on evidence or fact. I think they are just doing whatever the hell they want to. Everybody complains about bush ( rightfully so) but to be honest congress is just as bad. To lock somebody up for 3 years for HGH. Are you serious? Are these old ass congressmen serious?

Who are they to tell me how to live my life? What right do they have? How can flawed individuals tell me how to live my life? When you have congressmen soliciting gay prostitution in minnesota airports bathroom stalls, florida congressman sending lewd and sexually offensive emails and IM's to his paiges, Tom Delay ( nothing more needs to be stated there). Do I need to go any further with the criminals in congress.

I think even before congress fixes anything, social security, illegal immigration, etc, they need to first clean up thier own house. How dare they tell me how to life my life and that I am a criminal for using HGH.

How can criminals tell me I'm I criminal? You know whats criminal? Voting yourself a pay raise for doing jack shit and then turning around and accusing me of breaking the law. Fuck them. I love my country but our government can lick my balls.

 

[thebrick]

those senators are going to give me an aneurysm, ban them.

 

[GoneForever]

DHEA will never be banned

 

[phillypa]

This is how politicians show they are working. Banning things justifies their bloated paychecks. With regards to steroids, a few people die but what about the rest who dont? Such perspective would be the best way to undermine the current war on drugs. Kill the laws with cold, hard facts.

 

[Kane]

They need to ban cigarettes and alcohol.. Morons!

 

[brajosm]

they need to ban idoits they cause all kinds of shit like witchhunts and histaria

 

[bhumik]

Well , guys steroids are dangerous and HGH is way dangerous.. No doubts about it.. They are just trying to protect the community and the community is hte majority not hte bodybuilders..

 

[syntheticmuscle]

Well , guys steroids are dangerous and HGH is way dangerous.. No doubts about it.. They are just trying to protect the community and the community is hte majority not hte bodybuilders..

why do you say hgh is way dangerous

 

[brajosm]

Well , guys steroids are dangerous and HGH is way dangerous.. No doubts about it.. They are just trying to protect the community and the community is hte majority not hte bodybuilders..

dangerous to who, i hope u are kidding. If not show me some bodies.

 

[TheGodfather]

Well , guys steroids are dangerous and HGH is way dangerous.. No doubts about it.. They are just trying to protect the community and the community is hte majority not hte bodybuilders..

I sincerely hope that you were being facetious. They are just trying to protect the community? This type of thinking is really disturbing to me but it is actually a trend among American citizens who get their propaganda spoon fed to them at 6pm every night from Fox. Since when did we throw personal ACCOUNTABILITY out the window? This is a word that I use and emphasize a lot. A person has a right to chose what substances they put into their body, and it is up to them to educate themselves enough on it to make that decision. It is not the job of the government to make those decisions for you. "He who sacrifices liberty for safety deserves neither." We do not need to be putting our safety in the hands of bureaucrats in Washington who are honestly completely UNQUALIFIED to be making any type of decisions regarding science or medicine.

People need to start being responsible for themselves. Republicans want to give people the fishing rod and let them catch the fish themselves. Democrats and Liberals want to give people the fish and watch every aspect of their lives from the time they are born until they die. The kind of things that you are advocating by your post, is not a free society, which is what we are supposed to be.

The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves right now. I'm sure they would never have imagined we would be talking about baseball, condoms in schools, steroids, or any other inconsequential matter in the CONGRESS of the entire country. It baffles me, and its actually disturbing that some people who are a part of our community would actually back these totalitarian policies.

 

[vadim_b1]

I can only hope that all of you who live in the US are writing to their respective congressmen right now to tell them how YOU feel about this issue.

 

[GoneForever]

Gh is not dangerous. In fact, its one of the only drugs out that you can take a ton of with no problems. yah yah yah, enlarged organs, whatever, I dont by that shit for a second unless your using over 20iu's daily.

 

[GRR4281]

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

 

[gtj220]

A womans right to choose (abortion) seems to be somthing the vast majority of congress and the media hold dear, why is a persons right to choose in this case any different? Abortion was made legal so that people would go to a doctor to protect their health because it was determined that they would do it regardless, seems like the same argument here! Just shows that our law makers are more concerned with their own agenda that the people's welfare and rights.