growth hormone; it's not just for cyclists anymore
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growth hormone; it's not just for cyclists anymore
So if everyone else why not cyclists I guess...
https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...llions_in.html
On Jan. 31, 2007, Jersey City police officer Victor Vargas filled a prescription for Norditropin, a brand of human growth hormone. He was billed $8, the co-pay set by his government health plan.
Taxpayers picked up the remaining $1,076.
Through August of that year, Vargas, then 30, filled at least five more prescriptions for growth hormone, along with prescriptions for testosterone, an anabolic steroid, and HCG, a drug that boosts production of testosterone in the body, according to legal documents related to an ongoing brutality lawsuit against Vargas and other officers.
In all, the officer paid $96 for the three substances in those eight months. The cost to the public: $7,013.
Vargas’ purchases provide a window into the enormous financial burden borne by taxpayers under a wink-and-nod arrangement between a Jersey City doctor, Joseph Colao, and his loyal patients in law enforcement agencies and fire departments across New Jersey.
A Star-Ledger investigation has found that at least 248 officers and firefighters obtained steroids, growth hormone and other testosterone-boosting drugs from Colao before his death in August 2007. In addition, the newspaper found Colao often falsely diagnosed his patients with hormone deficiencies to justify his prescriptions, a violation of the law and medical ethics.
For the officers and firefighters in the physician’s practice, the drugs came cheap.
Like Vargas, they used their government benefits to pay for the substances in most, if not all, cases. A Star-Ledger analysis suggests the total cost to taxpayers runs into the millions of dollars, driven primarily by Colao’s willingness to so widely prescribe human growth hormone, one of the most tightly regulated drugs in the nation.
Strong at Any Cost
A three-part Star-Ledger series on the secret world of steroid use by law enforcement officers and firefighters.
Booming anti-aging business relies on risky mix of steroids, growth hormone
For members of the Jersey City Police Department alone, Colao wrote 235 growth hormone prescriptions in a 13-month period, according to legal filings related to the brutality suit.
The public cost of just those prescriptions, based on an average price of $1,100 per month, runs to nearly $260,000.
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https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...llions_in.html
On Jan. 31, 2007, Jersey City police officer Victor Vargas filled a prescription for Norditropin, a brand of human growth hormone. He was billed $8, the co-pay set by his government health plan.
Taxpayers picked up the remaining $1,076.
Through August of that year, Vargas, then 30, filled at least five more prescriptions for growth hormone, along with prescriptions for testosterone, an anabolic steroid, and HCG, a drug that boosts production of testosterone in the body, according to legal documents related to an ongoing brutality lawsuit against Vargas and other officers.
In all, the officer paid $96 for the three substances in those eight months. The cost to the public: $7,013.
Vargas’ purchases provide a window into the enormous financial burden borne by taxpayers under a wink-and-nod arrangement between a Jersey City doctor, Joseph Colao, and his loyal patients in law enforcement agencies and fire departments across New Jersey.
A Star-Ledger investigation has found that at least 248 officers and firefighters obtained steroids, growth hormone and other testosterone-boosting drugs from Colao before his death in August 2007. In addition, the newspaper found Colao often falsely diagnosed his patients with hormone deficiencies to justify his prescriptions, a violation of the law and medical ethics.
For the officers and firefighters in the physician’s practice, the drugs came cheap.
Like Vargas, they used their government benefits to pay for the substances in most, if not all, cases. A Star-Ledger analysis suggests the total cost to taxpayers runs into the millions of dollars, driven primarily by Colao’s willingness to so widely prescribe human growth hormone, one of the most tightly regulated drugs in the nation.
Strong at Any Cost
A three-part Star-Ledger series on the secret world of steroid use by law enforcement officers and firefighters.
Booming anti-aging business relies on risky mix of steroids, growth hormone
For members of the Jersey City Police Department alone, Colao wrote 235 growth hormone prescriptions in a 13-month period, according to legal filings related to the brutality suit.
The public cost of just those prescriptions, based on an average price of $1,100 per month, runs to nearly $260,000.
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Do you suggest urine tests for Cat3+ law enforcement in NJ?
Hmm. Maybe introduce the information at your traffic court hearing to beat that speeding ticket - rather than roid rage, "Roid Daze".
(BTW to cover this prescription expense, speeding fines are doubled in locations that have a 65mph speed limit. That 75mph ticket on the NJ TPike is a $300 fine + court costs)
Hmm. Maybe introduce the information at your traffic court hearing to beat that speeding ticket - rather than roid rage, "Roid Daze".
(BTW to cover this prescription expense, speeding fines are doubled in locations that have a 65mph speed limit. That 75mph ticket on the NJ TPike is a $300 fine + court costs)
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now where am I going to get this stuff? I was hoping to have some before the Gran Fondo so I can be competitive on the climbs.
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A lot of "anti-aging" docs/quacks are prescribing HGH as part of their "hormonal optimization" for patients. They also prescribe testosterone.
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my favorite HGH story was published in the Times earlier this year. Apparently upper-crust kids in Manhattan are getting HGH treatment because they aren't tall enough for their parents' liking. Not being tall is apparently a bona fide deficiency these days. WWFD?
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https://outsideonline.com/bodywork/20...ug_test_1.html
He had some nice things to say about HGH. (of course, that was a 4-6mth experiment. I am sure the chance of tumors also increase as the years of taking HGH progress)
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Meh, just consider it part of employment benefits package. Plus they're JACKED - now they can just rip off the crumpled car door rather than wait for the jaws of life.
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Really? Google ads reads the text on a page and then chooses products related to that text to post advertisements for, and you think that's ironic? If that's the case, it's pretty ironic that the 41 is viewed mostly by road cyclists.
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Ads for "hormonal replacement" clearly not aimed to people with hormone deficiencies (check links) on a page with an article that highlights the dangers and cost of such practice = ironic.
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The question that arises for me is that if it's prevalent on this level how can it possibly be rooted out of places where's there's a tangible gain in using peds.
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