The Canadian Press reports that (surprise) David Jacobs, the Plano Texas steroid dealer to the NFL, showed a significant level of exogenous testosterone.
The autopsy report on convicted steroids dealer David Jacobs indicated he had more than five times the amount of testosterone in his system than allowed by standard sports testing.
The Collin County medical examiner's office on Tuesday released the autopsy report on the 35-year-old who was found dead in his Plano home along with his former girlfriend, Amanda Earhart-Savell, on June 5. She was a professional figure competitor who was killed by Jacobs, authorities said.
The autopsies showed he died from a contact gunshot wound to the left temple and right abdomen. Earhart-Savell, 30, was shot seven times: once in the back of the head, once in the right upper back and five times in the chest. Police found a .40-calibre
semiautomatic Glock 22 near Jacobs' body.
The autopsy report said Earhart-Savell had no steroids in her system but did test positive for amphetamine, which her family said she used to prepare for an upcoming bodybuilding competition, The Dallas Morning News reported in its online edition Tuesday.
As readers of this blog will know, we make no apologies for effects of anabolic steroids; however we also point out logical fallacies involved in the 'clinical thinking' about steroids either pro or con.
The finding of high testosterone indicates that Jacobs used exogenous steroids. Was an anabolic steroid tied to his homicidal behavior? While there are findings that androgenic-anabolic steroids can increase aggressiveness, there are no convincing data that the use of AASs (alone) lead to homicidal behaviors. Perhaps a contributing factor in the issue, but not the entire story.
Homicidal behavior is a mixture, of complex factors interacting with the other factors. There is a huge leap from a drug to a killing either homicide or suicide. More aggressive males in general will take AASs, thus confounding any finding of increased aggressiveness with AASs.
Jacobs places himself in situations of extreme stress - dealing drugs, working with organized crime, using an excess of other drugs; while AASs may increase aggressiveness, it would be exceedingly rare for the drug alone to lead to a homi-suicide.
"It's clear that testosterone increases aggressive behaviour. That's why teens tend to exhibit risk-taking. When you make the level super-physiologic, there's a wide range, but in general there's an increase in aggressiveness," Richard J. Auchus, associate professor of internal medicine and endocrinology at U.T. Southwestern in Dallas who studies steroids, told the newspaper.
The excess use of amphetamine can produce severe behavioral anomalies as AASs. Savell tested positive for amphetamine which can lead to anorexia, insomnia, psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, and psychotic disturbed behavior.
There are no clear cut villains in this sad episode; a number of events went bizarrely wrong.
It was a hit.
Someone did not want him to testify.
Posted by: Sudo | 08/07/2008 at 09:08