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19 years ago 02/01/2005 3:34pm EST

re: Engineer

Engineer wrote:
What do you think the cost of somthing like this is? Maybe a 100k? Why not just get one designed specifically for you? Maybe out of the scope of some runners, but baseball players, football players etc.... 100k gets you your own personlized steriod and 2 year supply...Come one their are lots of chemist who would do this for 100k I mean it can't be more than a couple months work and maybe 15k in supplies. Days for Dupont, nights for Da players.

You, my friend, obviously don't work for a pharmaceutical company.

19 years ago 02/01/2005 3:36pm EST

re: lab geek

The CBC is reporting:

"One person was charged and is expected to be sentenced this week in a court in Lethbridge, Alta."

A small university TF program, but not much in Lethbridge.

19 years ago 02/01/2005 5:17pm EST

re: WADA is a bunch of idiots

WADA is a bunch of idiots wrote:
They need a better way of detecting new drugs aside from amature smugglers and narcs.

what do you suggest? i can't really think of any other way to do it. how do you detect something you don't know exists?

19 years ago 02/02/2005 2:53pm EST

re: chuck d

Why is this not a bigger story? Is it because no big names have been caught or is it because no AMERICAN names have been caught?

19 years ago 02/02/2005 3:00pm EST

re: hmmmm

because no one seems to have actually used it and apparently it was a pretty botched job as it wasn't undetectable. and i think we all knew that there are people out there creating and, quite likely, utilizing designer steroids. it's always a bigger story if someone gets caught because talking about what ifs isn't particularly interesting.

19 years ago 02/02/2005 3:10pm EST

re: chuck d

From the New York Times story on the designer steroid (DMT):

"What was most alarming about DMT, according to Christiane Ayotte, director of Montreal's Olympic lab, is its complexity. Unlike THG, which required a one-step chemical reaction to produce it from its parent compound, DMT is created by several reactions.

'What this tells us is we have chemists with a very serious organic chemistry background that are helping the people who are distributing this substance to athletes,' Ayotte said. 'This is very dangerous because there is no purification.'

Ayotte said one of the chemicals required to produce DMT was methyllithium, a substance that could explode if exposed to moisture in the air. Without purification, traces of that substance could remain in the drug."

Sort of gives new meaning to the term "explosiveness" in athletes, doesn't it?

19 years ago 02/02/2005 3:31pm EST

re: Speed Kills

"Unlike THG, which required a one-step chemical reaction to produce it from its parent compound, DMT is created by several reactions."

The New York Times continues to underwhelm. Several reactions? You must need an advanced degree in chemistry with a sophisticated lab to do this? Or you could go the West Virginia where hillbillies have been making moonshine for decades and have them make this stuff.

19 years ago 02/04/2005 9:01am EST

re: Speed Kills

WADA say they don't know if it is an enhancer or not.

And what Canadian laws got broken if they don't know the funtion of the substance yet.

Let's get strict but only if on good grounds.

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