Mohammed Belkhair

A teenager died from heart failure  after taking steroids he had ordered from a website, an inquest heard.

Mohammed Belkhair, 19, suffered a deadly reaction to the performance-enhancing drugs which he took secretly.

Mr Belkhair, from Beamish Close, Longsight, Manchester, was rushed to hospital after his sister found him vomiting and ‘blue’ in his bedroom on May 20 last year.Continue Reading…

Did Zyzz Die Because of Steroids?

Bodybuilding is a widely popular sport, not only at the professional level, but for amateurs as well. It supports a $1 billion supplement industry, as athletes look for any way to gain more definition. But, while supplements aren’t regulated and are potentially dangerous, some take an even more dangerous route – anabolic steroids.… Continue Reading…

Another Casualty of Gay Men Abusing Steroids

Dr. Vince Pellegrino

 

The phone rang and a voice announced himself as “a voice from my past with news of my ex-boyfriend Bennett.” Immediately my mind went to other occurrences in my life when I had heard similar messages about others who were once very close to me. As expected, it was sadly similar: news of the tragic death of another man whom I knew and loved.… Continue Reading…

Craig Davidson

Craig Davidson used Steroids and transformed his Body in 16 weeks.

The needle is 21 gauge, 1.5in. A hogsticker. Forty of them arrived in a package from Greece. Ever received a package from overseas? You get that puff of air when you rip it open – air that’s travelled thousands of miles.… Continue Reading…

Stephen Bailey

Stephen Bailey, here with fiancee Brittany Klobuchar, was taken to Tampa General Hospital in June with severe liver damage.

Stephen Bailey should not have survived, his doctor says. Not after taking 200 Tylenol PM tablets, a dose that shut down his liver.

But after four months at Tampa General Hospital, procedures to stop his brain from swelling and repair damage to his liver, lungs, nerves, intestines, kidneys and colon, the 25-year-old Sebring man went home Friday.… Continue Reading…

Robert J. McCann

Negative Effects of Steroids

Excerpts take from ‘Accused says he’s ‘sorry what I did”, originally published by the Press Republican on February 22nd 2012.

Steroids Made Me Do It

After Robert J. McCann was arrested, the list of the accused crimes he committed was hard to read; attempted murder, kidnapping, stalking, rape and assault of his ex-girlfriend.… Continue Reading…

David Busemeyer

Facing Felony Charges

The Dark Side of My Badge

 When I decided to sit down and tell my story I began to struggle.  The freshness of everything came rushing back to me.  I thought, “Can I do this”?  What will others think? Where would I begin?  But as I thought more and more about it I decided not only could I do this, but I needed to do this, to help as many others as I possibly could.  As far as where to start, well, as Glinda the Good Witch says in The Wizard of Oz, “It’s always best to start at the beginning”.… Continue Reading…

Aziz ‘Zyzz’ Sergeyevich Shavershia

 

Excerpts of this story from, “Customs reveals steroid abuse is skyrocketing”. Originally published news.au.com on August 15h, 2011; and “‘Shattered’: Body of bodybuilder ‘Zyzz’ Heading Home”, originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald on August 11th, 2011. 

Online BodyBuilding Icon Dies of Undiagnosed Heart Defect

Aziz Sergeyevich Shavershian, better known by his internet handle of ”Zyzz”, was an ameatuer bodybuilding icon.… Continue Reading…

Scott Siegel

Negative Effects of Steroids

Excerpts from “Scott Siegel was all the rage in ‘The Wrestler,’ but real steroid story serves as cautionary tale“, originally published in the NY Daily News on May 08, 2010

You may have heard about Scott Siegel from his role in “The Wrestler”. His acting garnered him many accolades, including praise from Mickey Rourke.… Continue Reading…

Todd Ganci

I grew up in a big family; I was the third of five kids, three girls and two boys. My father was a Captain in the Army and my mother was a nurse in Germany.

My mother was, and is, a very hard worker. She’s still into gardening and landscaping in her 70′s.… Continue Reading…