"It's a LIE, I tell ya!"
Posted on 03/17/2006 10:37:46 PM PST by MRMEAN
They never saw a doctor, didn't even talk to one by phone.
The 13 West Palm Beach police officers facing suspensions for buying anabolic steroids told internal investigators they thought they had valid prescriptions because each had established a doctor-patient relationship to get the drugs.
The company they patronized, the now-defunct PowerMedica in Deerfield Beach, was part of an online boom in anti-aging and hormone replacement clinics. Such clinics have popped up all over South Florida, operating in a murky area of the law, and they are drawing more scrutiny from regulators. Federal investigators raided PowerMedica in February 2004, and it closed a few months later. ....SNIP....
One Food and Drug Administration investigator told police that she and federal prosecutors were so concerned by the number of South Florida law enforcement officers who were PowerMedica customers that they took an unusual step in an active investigation -- they alerted the police agencies for public safety reasons.
"We were very concerned that something could happen and we might be held liable for it," FDA investigator Julie Pahutsky told West Palm Beach police internal investigators.
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Four Palm Beach County deputies and three Delray Beach officers also used the company. Two of the Palm Beach deputies were given one-day suspensions for not telling their supervisors they were taking the drugs...
The officers' prescriptions weren't signed by the doctor they thought was signing them -- another doctor with a troubled history was forging the prescriptions, according to federal investigators. That doctor had her New York medical license suspended for drug and alcohol abuse, was convicted for the unauthorized practice of medicine and was hit with a $40 million jury verdict in a patient's cosmetic-surgery death.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
"It's a LIE, I tell ya!"
those guys are wound up so tight it's scary (well, come to think of it, the women are pretty scary, too).
trust me, I lived there for 20 years.
think 42 bullets in a guy who was pulled over for weaving in traffic in Tampa one Sunday morning...
Who ever comes up with an anabolic steroid doughnut with be richer than Bill Gates.
Steroids are evidence that all things in life need balance. Too much testosterone and you become a raging psycho while too little turns you into Michael Kinsley.
That explains the rash of cheesecake fireman calendars...
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That's why most men who are vegetarians are so "docile".
Firefighters use them to make their arm muscles more on the scale of their love muscles.
Cops on steroids? Tell me it isn't true!
What's next, that they drink coffee!
Flight Surgeons used to issue us steriods.......those an lockers full of Joe Weiders suppliments (all we had over the counter back then) , diet and exercising 4 hours a day minimum kept the body fat down to about 13% per the water displacement measurement. Long term use will take its toll and if a person is gonna include such in their workout they really really need to have a "real" doctor who will test em at least twice a month depending on the strenght and dose prescribed. Ours was very low but very effective for it's strenght and endurance building results.
So does this mean they have to put an asterisk next to the number of arrests they make?
Remember the out of control "Miami River Cops" case 20 years ago? Those killers in blue were all juicers. Makes em crazy.
We need nationwide testing of all LEOs in all branches of govts for steroid use...and we need it now.
Remember the many polices cheifs and sheriffs that have said "if you have nothing to hide than why worry about it"
That is an outstanding idea lets see how the thin blue line likes having their actions under the microscope
Oh, I forgot. They're one and the same. It's just that the cops are better financed and equipped.
with authority, not the least. I have heard one sheriff say (I won't say to whom) "You're under arrest. You have no rights." Another, to a child, "I am the law."
I admire sane and solid law enforcement professionals. May their tribe increase.
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