March 04, 2004
More On Plausible Deniability
In today's New York Times, Doug McNeil examines an issue we've referred to in the past -- that of steroids and plausible deniability:
Mario J. Vassallo is a former semipro football player, a former steroid user and now the lead researcher in a Central Michigan University study of the addictive effects of steroids.
"From my own personal experience," he said, "and 36 of the 38 guys I interviewed said the same thing: once you take start taking steroids, within the first three days, it's a different life you're leading. You feel invincible, on top of the world. Within two weeks, you feel your workouts change. You used to do an hour and a half and get tired. You can change to two hours a day and feel ready to go back and do the same thing. And the pump you get, you don't want to lose it."
People associated with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or Balco, which is at the center of a federal investigation into the distribution of steroids, say that they dealt only in vitamin and mineral supplements. So if prosecutors are right and what Balco really sold was a new designer steroid, tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG, is it possible that its customers could not have known what they were taking?
The next time you hear an athlete claim they didn't know they were taking steroids, keep this in mind.
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