More information from Sports Illustrated (SI.Com), who dribbles news about 'Operation Netroids' out on the website. (thanks to the Wiz over at The Wizard of Odds). Also see our story on wrestlers dying young.
Today;s information concerns pro wrestling and steroids/HGH. There are 3 components.
A. The pro wrestlers involved included the late Eddie Guerrero, who died in 2005, of cardiac causes. The word on the net is that the cardiac complications were secondary to chronic abuse of anabolic steroids (and yet we have gurus who say there are few side effects of anabolic steroids..yeah right!).
Kurt Angle --a legitimate wrestler at one point( trenbolone and one for nandrolone), Oscar Gutierrez (Rey Mysterio), Adam Copeland, a.k.a. Edge, and Shane Helms, a.k.a. The Hurricane, appear to be involved (the last two with HGH).
Randy Orton, a pro wrestler, allegedly received 8 prescriptions for 5 different drugs:
1. Stanozolol (Winstrol)
2. Nandrolone (Deca DUrabolin)
3. Anastrozole (anti-estrogen)
4. Clomiphene (anti-estrogen)
5. Oxandrolone (Anavar)
6. Testosterone
B. SI names David Wilbirt, an Arizona doctor who was investigated by the DEA. SI reports he is not practicing (licensed jerked?).
When reached at his home Wilbirt spoke with us briefly, asserting, "I'm not even practicing medicine now, so... I don't remember doing half the stuff you're talking about." (The Arizona Medical Board confirms that his license is currently suspended.) Asked specifically about the professional wrestlers, Wilbirt remarked: "I'll tell you one thing and then this conversation is going to end. They had done blood work and had laboratory work done and they had come to see me." Wilbirt obviously remains a "person of interest" for the investigators.
Wilbirt "from 2001 to 2005 for allegedly writing 3,879 prescriptions between November 2004 and April 2005, all for "patients" who had requested drugs over the Internet. Though that was two years ago, his name has surfaced several times in the official documents we reviewed from the "Operation Netroids" investigation."
C. The Internet pharmacy in this case was Applied, in Mobile, Ala., a compounding pharmacy that was raided last fall.
SI sums up the business operations as:
(a) distribution pipeline which...is a marriage of fraudulent anti-aging clinics, complicit compounding pharmacies and doctors who rubber-stamp prescriptions for human growth hormone (HGH), testosterone, steroids, etc., often without examining the patients.
Seems to the Nation, that a huge number of pro wrestlers, and boxers utilize anabolic steroids, HGH and other drugs to develop those eye popping physiques. When will American fans hold these sports (and the master manipulators like Vince McMahon, Ted Turner etc.) responsible for the untold damage done to the wrestlers, and in setting a bizarre milieu out there for pro wrestling enthusiasts.
As a Roman emperor once said when confronted about money he made from public urinals 'this (money) doesn't smell'.
Every sports team whether baseball or football or basketball has a team doctor or great health plans to stay in shape. These poor wrestlers make great money but have nothing in ways of health care or doctors and must pay out of pocket for health care. They too are professional athletes and deserve good health care and doctors. They get more banged up then other pro sports and if they had medical care they would not turn to steroids.
From the Nation: I would say the pro wrestlers are entertainers, but your point is well taken. Steroids and health care are related but different issues. However, what you say is true...the wrestlers need better medical advice.
thanks
Posted by: Daniel Kinsman | 07/11/2007 at 07:51
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