Scientists Uncover New Designer Steroid

[seemslikeadream]

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 5:05 PM CST
Scientists Uncover New Designer Steroid
By STEPHEN WILSON

Canadian scientists uncovered a new steroid designed to avoid detection in standard drug tests, but say they found no evidence it was used by athletes.

The World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday that the substance _ called desoxy-methyl-testosterone, or DMT _ was identified after a tip from an anonymous whistleblower.

WADA science director Olivier Rabin said the drug had similarities to THG, or tetrahydrogestrinone, a drug at the heart of the BALCO steroid investigation in the United States.

Several track and field stars, including sprinters Kelli White and Dwain Chambers, were banned after THG was unmasked in 2003. Four men face charges of distributing steroids to elite athletes in the case involving the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.

Rabin and Christiane Ayotte, director of Montreal's anti-doping lab, said there was no evidence DMT has been used by athletes. They touted the finding as a pre-emptive victory against drug cheats.
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[Renew Deal]

1. I wonder how many baseball players are doing this.

It's probably being rubbed on their asses without their consent or knowledge. :eyes:

[Anakin Skywalker]

2. Huh? Who would do the rubbing?

Maybe hookers secretly hired by their teams? LOL

[sendero]

3. Trying to ban steroids..

... from sports will have as much success as banning other recreational drugs has had, i.e. none whatsoever.

The athletes have multi-million dollar careers at stake, and they will always be one step ahead of the rules-enforcers.

But, the deluded masses can have their dream of putting toothpaste back in the tube I suppose.

[LifeDuringWartime]

4. when did DMT become a steroid?

;)

[bobthedrummer]

6. Yeah, it was on the Vietnamese red weed, it reminded me of STP

or Desoxyn...
:hi:
:smoke:

[VegasWolf]

7. Any compound with testosterone as its base is a steroid by

definition.

[Undercover Owl]

8. good question.

My guess is that it HAS to be a different DMT than the hallucinogen DMT. There's no way it's the same....

[VegasWolf]

9. You are thinking of a different DMT (dimethyltryptamine--known on

as the businessman's special.

[NashVegas]

5. Imagine If These Scientists Had to Be Their Own Ginuea Pigs

How many of these steroids or other wonder drugs would ever have made it into the public domain?