New Book: Dopers in Uniform

The University of Texas Press has published a new book on the prevalence of steroid use by policemen and how police departments look the other way. It's Dopers in Uniform: The Hidden World of Police on Steroids and is available from UT Press, Amazon, as well as other book sellers. Google has a preview from the book.

I know several Firefighters as well that are jacked and admitted users.

I have a lax attitude toward steroids but Im then very prejudicial for street drugs. But this really is a microcasm of society, that population has the same problems that exist elasewhere.

Jinzang said:

The University of Texas Press has published a new book on the prevalence of steroid use by policemen and how police departments look the other way. It's Dopers in Uniform: The Hidden World of Police on Steroids and is available from UT Press, Amazon, as well as other book sellers. Google has a preview from the book.

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Testosterone/aas - first athletes (olympics)->bodybulders->mainstream (weekend warriors)->high school kids (athletes or regular joes) and since the golden era a majority of sports (football/ baseball/cycling/sprinters/boxers/hockey/basketball/soccer/mma).

Steroids have always been used or abused and no surprise that policemen/firemen/military personal have taken part. Nothing new here! Bigger/stronger/faster male mentality.

Majority of users (athletes) before it became the bodybuilding subculture had applied the use of chemical warfare in order to increase recovery time from training/increase strength/increase muscle and use it to enhance ones skill in their specific sport.

Abuse by bodybuilders just made the general public believe testosterone/aas is evil/poison when in reality testosterone is critical to ones health/overall well being.

Sad that society came to the point of average joes (high school kids/non-athletes/gym junkies) that abuse the hormones in order to simply have bigger/stronger muscles beyond what one could attain naturally simply for purely cosmetic purposes/just to look good in the mirror.

Sure there is nothing wrong with wanting to be strong/muscular and fit but to the point where one is carrying excess muscle mass beyond their natural genetic potential for the sake of looks seems absurd.