Primobolan not legally available over the counter in Dominican Republic

[BigDofBA]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3920425

A-Rod said that him and his cousin got the drug legally over the counter from 2001-2003. According to the official in charge of the agency which regulates pharmaceutical drugs in the Dominican Republic, "Primobolan was not available for legal purchase, over-the-counter or with a prescription in his country between 2001 and 2003."

I don't think it's going to take long for people to bring A-rod down. It's pretty obvious that he is full of it.

[twiztiddarkangelman]

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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3920425

A-Rod said that him and his cousin got the drug legally over the counter from 2001-2003. According to the official in charge of the agency which regulates pharmaceutical drugs in the Dominican Republic, "Primobolan was not available for legal purchase, over-the-counter or with a prescription in his country between 2001 and 2003."

I don't think it's going to take long for people to bring A-rod down. It's pretty obvious that he is full of it.

Bring him down to where? You mean like Bonds? Clemens? Sosa? et al. And who could be next? Griffey? Pujols? Ortiz? Now I'm not an ARod fan never was never will be. I think he is one of the biggest phonies in the game. To be completely honest I tired of hearing all the roids news, I want to dwell about all that's good in the game. I'm probably naive there.

[wwharton]

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Can you PLEASE add things related to the ARod story in one of the 50,000 topics already created?

[Kashanova]

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Need steroids? No problem down here in the country where A-Rod spent much of his childhood.
I walked into the Farmacia Carmina, which sits on a nondescript corner of Avenida Independencia and Pasteur in downtown Santo Domingo.
It is one of five pharmacies within a three-block radius where anyone - from regular Joes to millionaire baseball players like Alex Rodriguez - can walk in and buy anabolic steroids. Some are open 24/7.
No prescription? No sweat.
All that was required was my first name.
The transaction took less than two minutes. The pharmacist handed over one 100 mg ampule of testosterone enanthate, a 2.5 ml. syringe and a package of 10 Methandrostenolone pills, the powerful oral anabolic steroid known as Dianabol.
D-Bol, as it is known on the street, was a popular bodybuilding drug in the '70s before being banned in the United States.
The ampules of testosterone were in the same aisle as baby formula and bottled water. The pharmacist put my first name into a computer.
I then walked 20 steps to the cash register, where the cashier searched for the name on her screen. She rung up the total: 674 Dominican pesos, or $19.
Two days ago, Alex Rodriguez claimed that the steroids he'd ingested from 2001 to 2003, which Sports Illustrated identified as Primobolan and testosterone, had come from "over the counter" purchases his cousin made in the Dominican Republic.
He called the steroids "Boli," street slang for Primobolan, one of the drugs Rodriguez reportedly tested positive for in baseball's 2003 survey testing season.
None of the five pharmacies the Daily News visited Wednesday in Santo Domingo carried Primobolan, the steroid A-Rod claimed was so easy to obtain in the D.R.
Still, the alarming ease with which powerful drugs like testosterone enanthate or Dianabol can be bought here demonstrates the seriousness of the drug problem facing Major League Baseball as it tries to eradicate drug use.
It is illegal to buy testosterone in the U.S. without a prescription, and Primobolan is banned in the U.S. But players can easily hop on a plane to Santo Domingo and acquire high-quality drugs without any hurdles.
"Testosterone enanthate is numero uno. It's oil-based. That's the Cadillac Escalade among Chevy Malibus when you're talking about different types of injectable testosterone," Curtis Wenzlaff told the Daily News Wednesday.
In a 2005 Daily News series, two government sources identified Wenzlaff, a convicted steroid dealer, as the person who designed Mark McGwire's steroid arrays, helping turn McGwire into one of the most feared sluggers of the '90s.
"You do one injection every seven to 10 days and do 10 sets of 25 pushups each day, you'll put on 3 or 4 pounds of muscle. That is high-quality stuff."
Wenzlaff and anti-doping expert Dr. Gary Wadler cited Dianabol as a far more dangerous drug.
Although it helps build incredible strength in the weight room, it causes kidney failure and enlarged breasts among its severe side effects.
Only one of the five pharmacies asked me to produce a prescription for testosterone.
When the pharmacist at Farmacia Carmina was asked if there was anyone who could demonstrate how to inject the testosterone, she shook her head.
She was only in the business of selling it. What you did with it was your business.

It took the reporter 19 Dollars and 2 Mins to get the same Roids.

Come on now what did you expect the guy to say? Of course he's gonna say you can't get it legally.

[Tomahawk]

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Terrance Moore in the Atlanta Journal Constitution had a good quote about A-Rod's press conference. He said, "If you believe what A-Rod said then you must be young, dumb, and naive."

[BigDofBA]

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Terrance Moore in the Atlanta Journal Constitution had a good quote about A-Rod's press conference. He said, "If you believe what A-Rod said then you must be young, dumb, and naive."

LOL.

Wasn't A-rod 25,26, and 27 when he actually "admitted" that he took steroids? That means he was a 7 year veteran past his mid-twenties. I'm sorry, but that is a lame excuse.

There are so many loose ends in his story that it makes it very unbelievable. If a trainer was telling him to take something, I might have a better chance of believing that he didn't know what he was taking. Since we now know that he was doing it with his cousin, I can't even give him that benefit of the doubt.

Can you PLEASE add things related to the ARod story in one of the 50,000 topics already created?

This is new news. I figured it was worthy of a new thread. This is a message board right? Sometimes when a thread gets really long with a ton of posts, new information gets lost. If mods feel the need to lock this thread so be it but then they would have to lock a lot of other threads. I just thought it was interesting news.

[wwharton]

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wouldn't mind them merging (no need to lock) a lot of threads. anyone interested (and that includes me) is keeping up with the main threads already on the board. no need to open 10 different threads to get information on one topic. they all end up being the same discussion. you can do whatever you want, but it's just a suggestion that i think would make more than a couple people happy.