In an incongruous interview with ESPN's Mike Fish, former MLB player (the Orioles and other teams) David Segui details his PED use. Segui meanders around with logical fallacies falling like split fingered fastballs.
Segui says that HGH and PEDs should only be taken under a doctor's supervision, yet he admittedly took these drugs covertly. Furthermore, an ethical sports medicine specialist, orthopedic surgeon, or team doctor is not going to risk a federal offense by dispensing HGH, a controlled drug, for a suspect off-label use.
David Segui, taking a break on a recent morning from a cardio
workout in the large gym and fitness center situated on his country
estate, isn't mincing words.
Yes, he used performance-enhancing drugs late in his 15-year career in Major League Baseball. And he doesn't feel guilty about it.
"Obviously, I've done 'growth,'" says Segui. "I'm not going to tell you I never took a 'greenie' [amphetamine]. I'm not going to tell you I never tried steroids before.
Segui admits to illegal use of HGH. [Using HGH for performance enhancement is clearly illegal. Ask Dr. James Shortt, physician to the Carolina Panthers, who went to jail for illegal PED prescriptions including HGH. (Mark Zeigler's fine review here)]
Segui first disclosed his use of human growth hormone to ESPN last year. He acknowledges that he has had a doctor's prescription for HGH One of sport's most controversial and undetectable substances -- since 2001, when he was diagnosed with low levels of the hormone. But he also admits now that he used it before then to speed up his recovery from a hand injury.
Thus, Segui admits he violated federal controlled substances acts, on multiple occasions by illegally using HGH and anabolic steroids. How do these guys get away with blatant flaunting of narcotics and controlled substances laws? Imagine David Letterman announcing he uses meth to get motivated for his show. Or Rudy Guillini saying he buys Adderall on the street to control his weight.
Segiu continues to use HGH. He claims HGH deficiency. Maybe those years of steroid and HGH abuse caused his 'HGH deficiency. Or maybe he frequents 'anti-aging clinics'.
Segui, now 41 and in his third year of retirement from the game, no longer worries about his next contract or how to stay on the field. But he says he continues to follow a doctor's orders in dealing with a hormone deficiency. He keeps the prescribed synthetic growth hormone in his refrigerator. First thing in the morning or last thing at night, he grabs some loose flesh around his stomach and injects himself.
Years more of HGH use might mean cardiac problems, diabetes, carpel tunnel syndrome, myopathy, and even may increase the rate of a malignancy growth (cancer). Just saying...
The article does contains this canard:
Major League Baseball didn't ban human growth hormone until early in 2005, though the drug had been around the game for at least a decade prior to that. Segui told ESPN.com he first used it during the 1998 season when he was with the Mariners, without the knowledge of Seattle's training and medical staff.
Look, it is irrelevant if 'baseball banned' HGH in 2003. The substance is a controlled drug which is illegal without an ethical physician's prescription for treating a real disease.
From ESPN. Segui on HGH and healing:
"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."
Major League Baseball didn't ban human growth hormone until early in 2005, though the drug had been around the game for at least a decade prior to that. Segui told ESPN.com he first used it during the 1998 season when he was with the Mariners, without the knowledge of Seattle's training and medical staff.
Yeah, I guess all those off-label uses of anti-epileptics in psychiatry are ethical also. I guess all those DSM IV diagnoses were written with patients best interests in mind....I guess all of those who have made DSM entries were not directly associated with the pharmaceutical industry....FACT 100% are associated with the pharmaceutical industry.
No ethics in medicine these days....get off your high horse already
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