To add an exclamation mark on Albany DA David Soares foray into Internet anabolics, an Albany citizen succumbed to apparent steroid OD (although there will not be an autopsy; weird because in the case of suspicious deaths the legal authorities can and should order an autopsy).
The Nation wrote and earlier piece about young Pete Kennedy in intensive care in Albany. The young man had no history of medical problems. He suddenly collapsed, then was admitted to a hospitla intensive care unit with mutiple organ failure. Numerous anabolic steroid vials were found in his home-made workout area.
Kennedy died. Story here in the New York News.
Barb Kennedy was supposed to pick him up the next morning, never imagining the heartache to come; that her only son would have his healthy body ravaged by steroid use, that he would become the nation's latest chemically enhanced tragedy - a young man who just wanted to be big and buff, and wound up in the ground...
Could there be a more improbable person to intersect with the burgeoning investigation into Internet steroid trafficking being conducted by David Soares, the Albany County district attorney? A less likely face of an orbit of steroid use that has nothing to do with home-run records or Olympic gold medals - but rather with a simple desire to bulk up?
The News piece documents Kennedy's obsession with working out, his sudden calamitous health collapse and ICU admission, then the discovery of anabolic steroids in his possessions. A sobering decent into catastrophic illness and death.
You paying attention Gene Upshaw?
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