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Performance-enhancing drugs are not just for athletes... or impotent men... There's another kind of drug that builds up your mental muscle, and academics, musicians, students and poker players are taking the pills to sharpen their minds. Adderall, Provigil, Ritalin, Inderal... the drugs are all legal and prescribed for other disorders such as ADD, ADHD, narcolepsy and Alzheimer's. The effect of the drugs on healthy people hasn't been tested much, and like with any drug there are negative side effects if taken improperly. Labs are now racing to develop a memory pill.
"Unlike the anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and blood-oxygen boosters that plague athletic competitions, the brain drugs haven't provoked similar outrage. People who take them say the drugs aren't giving them an unfair advantage but merely allow them to make the most of their hard-earned skills."
Do you agree? Or should we be more concerned about pill popping for a bit of "cosmetic neurology"?Performance-enhancing drugs are not just for athletes... or impotent men...... more
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But he also admits now that he used it before then to speed up his recovery from a hand injury.
"The stuff is amazing for that purpose," Segui says. "That is how it started in baseball. When I first came in the league is when Tommy John [elbow] surgery started to become more prevalent. I remember guys coming back from [the surgery] and throwing harder. I remember hearing [of] guys using growth hormone to speed up the healing process and regenerate the tendon growth and all that stuff. That is how it became known for its healing properties. And then guys would have [other] surgeries, and that is what they would take. So I laugh every time I read an article that says it is a performance-enhancer. It doesn't enhance your performance. If you are horse crap, you are going to be horse crap when you come off the [disabled list]. You're just going to come off the DL quicker."
He doesn't advocate breaking the rules and he doesn't encourage the use of HGH unless it is under doctor's orders. But he is puzzled by what he perceives to be a media-driven hysteria regarding drugs in the sport. He believes human growth hormone mistakenly has been lumped in with steroids and other performance-enhancers.
"I've been on teams that you couldn't beg them to give you a cortisone shot; and been on teams before you blinked, the needle is already in your knee. So what if you are on a team that didn't readily give them out? Were you at a disadvantage? Did the other organization's players have an advantage because they were able to get a cortisone injection? Because there is no such thing as a level playing field. That is a myth."
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I'd assume there's a thin line between injury related HGH use... and HGH abuse...
It's understandable to how players can be pushed into HGH abuse... but it wasn't until 2005 when HGH was banned...
HGH of course is not steriods
The business of MLB puts pressure to force players out there to perform...
Teams who heavily market a player can't wait for players to recover from injuries, fans won't take too kindly to players who spend 40 games on the DL... thus neither will owners who write those paychecks...
hence why guys who play the whole time and yet are mediocre tend to just be as highly rewarded as injury risk stars... You know why the Cubs are paying Jason Marquis like $8 million a year for three years despite posting an ERA of 6.02 for the full season with Cardinals before that contract?? Because he pitched mediocrely for the FULL SEASON...
For most players, being able to play is how they get their salaries... If a player gets injured, they won't get good contracts b/c they've spent too much time on the DL healing naturally...
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That's a lot of juice. By the way if your name is Rick Ankiel find the gobenator and get ERASED asap. Troy Glaus's aren't too safe right now either.
A New York pharmacy linked to a widening probe of human growth hormone in sports was raided on Tuesday by state investigators who seized enough raw powder to make nearly a million HGH doses, according to the officials involved.
The raid of Lowen's Pharmacy in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, was the second in five months. In May, investigators with the New York Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement found employees mixing $200,000 worth of steroids and growth hormone in a back room. On Tuesday, they found 90 grams of raw human growth hormone, worth an estimated $7.2 million. Also found were kilogram quantities of three popular steroids: testosterone, nandrolone and stanazolol.That's a lot of juice. By the way if your name is Rick Ankiel find the gobenator... more
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Baseball officials yesterday formally requested a meeting with Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons to discuss his alleged link to performance-enhancing drugs, an industry source confirmed.Baseball officials yesterday formally requested a meeting with Orioles outfielder Jay... more
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