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Show As Clear Rules ee Standards, yet it Needed for Emerging Drugs a banned substance for We simply “It no secret that one of our gal, of the President's Council on this i York University sports medicine easily available performance- and Physical Fitne: Arnold Schwarzenegger,” ar former appearance-enhancing drugs. A 1999 survey by Blue Cross sports broadcaster and U.S. gold medal Olympic swimmer @ Continued from A-1 stake.” As McCaffrey last year urged the Olympic movement to do a better job of eliminating doping from the Games, the United seriously impair future de‘lopment, leading to androgenizing of females, feminization of males, liver damage,heart disease and permanentlystunted growth. States’ own inadequacy in achiev- ing drug-free sports was constantly pointed out. “There is an enormous [disparity] between the views expressed in relation to the Olympic move- ment and those that prevail in Why the Drugs?: Whatis the appeal of steroids? Beyond artificially buffing up muscles for a physically fit appearance, the drugs’ effect on athletic perfor- professional sport in your coun- mance is undeniable. For instance, East German researchers wrote to McCaffrey in October. athletes over a four-year period try,” IOC Vice President Dick Pound — now the head of WADA “In the latter, performanceenhancing drugs are widely used and apparently regularly tolerated.” Hero Users: Perhaps the most blatant American example of en- during the Cold War found that administering steroids to female resulted in a 4- to 5-meter boost in shot-put distance, 4 to 5 seconds faster in the 400-meter run and 7 to 8 seconds faster in the 800-meter run. With an estimated 400,000 U.S. youngsters now trying steroids, dowing hero status to a doper is Major League Baseball home-run the White House fears a long-term health care crisis in the making. Yet advisers also are wary about a cayipaign that could lead to pull- slugging out the new record, McGwire used the strength- ing the sneakers off some of America’s biggest sports heros to learn they haveclay feet. To many spectators, sports is areligion. Are we ready to hear that our anointed deities are dopers? “So-called public opinionis not _ viscerally concerned with doping offenses,” says University of record holder Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals. While boosting chemical Androstenedione, which is classified as a food supplement even though the body metabolizes Androinto testosterone,a steroid. Although McGwire has said he no longer uses Andro,sales of the supplement have leapt five-fold sincelastyear.It is sold to anyone at nutrition stores, gyms and Internetsites without a prescription orparental consent. “Mark McGwire, one of our most famous and talented and dedicated athletes, used Andro, a drug, while he established a national record in home-run hits,” Texas researcher and author John Hoberman. “Most people care more about the fact the athlete pie than the fact the athlete loped.” Atthe sametime, few can argue that doping is ethically wrong. White House advisers hope to turn aroundattitudes that seem to say, “If you're not cheating, you're expert and author Gary Wadler. “All you need to do is take this $6 billion supplement industry and Blue Shield’s Healthy Competition Foundation found one-in-four de Varona, an adviser to the Office of National Drug Control Policy “It was not illegal to use these would prefer himto talk aboutit percentof girls ages 9 to 13 have used steroids. That is the same because he has health issues now percentage as the numberof kids etary Supplement Health and Education Act, the senator “at- things and he thinks it's wrong ages 12-17 whohavetried cocaine. and maybe they are not related, but I would like Arnold to say something.” Beyond Steroids: Steroids aren't the only performance. enhancing drug with youth appeal. Gymnasts have been using various “brake drugs”that put the skids.on sexual development, al- As an ABC-TVreporter cover. ing the swimming events at the Olympics, de Varonasays she ran headlong into the mindset of unacknowledged doping. lowing them to retain narrower “We were covering lies,” she says. “I saw Janet Evans win against cheaters and yet had to be quiet about the truth. I remember feeling that way when I went to hips and smaller breasts for com: petition.In a society that teaches kids winning is everything, McCaffrey says performance-drug the Soviet Union. Is that what is abuse has become “an enormous going to happen in our sporting environment, where you ca problem”for the United States. “Wehavenorules, we have no common commitment, in some cases there is no code andin some speak out and be honest withou beinglabeled a crybaby?” cases the code is not being fol- Lessening Demand: Broaden- lowed,” he says.“Wehaveto have sensible national legislation deal- ing America’s drug-abuse effort from Colombian cartels to the ing with these performance enhancing drugs.” ‘That charge couldfall to Utah’s senior U.S. senator, Republican shopping mall stores peddling dietary supplements comes as de- mandforillicit drugs has plum- 50 percent the past two decades, cocaine use is down 70 percent, Orrin Hatch, who has become a champion of the dietary supplement industry and protected it from what he views as excessive use of inhalants —, such as government regulation. “I have given him a specific meted in the UnitedStates. Overall drug use has declined and among youth ages 12-17 the Hatch spokesman Paul Smith says that in passing the 1994 Di- tempted to put appropriate regulations” on dietary supplements. “Therefore, it is the responsi- bility of the Food and Drug Administration to pursue any prod- uct said to be unsafe,” says Smith. “And Hatch supports strong action by the FDA to seek such products.” Review Needed: However, McCaffreyissued a report in October oie for a review of the supple- mentact to ensure that it indeed protectsthe health of athletes and young people, and that such a review should be completed before ment of Justice reports dating back five years that complain “current provisions of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines establish grossly inadequate sentencing standardsforsteroid traffickers.” In the last two years, DEA au- thorities broke up an operation in Dallas that was smuggling ste- roids from Mexico into local high schools, uncovered a Pittsburgh business illegally selling steroids from Thailand over the Internet and arrested 15 members of the Russian mafia in New Yorkafter smuggling two tons of steroids into the United States. Many maintain this is just the start of a new American drug craze. “The future in the field of doping is clearly unknown, because we're at the beginning of a brave new world-with blood substitutes, genetic manipulation, new drugs and new technologies,” says Wa- the Salt Lake Games. Another major problem with U.S. law is that the Controlled Substances Act covers “anabolic at such an exponential rate, soon steroids are going to look like the steroids,” leaving a host of other Model-T Ford.” dler. “Modern science is growing ARCHIBALD’S Gag RESTAURANT tyieaile)| 10 YEAR BIRTHD CELEBRATION! 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