Jun 25 2009
Steroid Test Kit Detects Anabolic Steroids at the Comfort of Your Home
Anabolic Steroids is still a major concern of most parents with kids involved in sports. Peer pressure and the desire to excel in their chosen sports are the common reason why these young athletes use performance enhancing drugs. In the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) survey, almost half million 8th to 10th graders use performance enhancing drugs and most high school seniors believes that using anabolic steroids is not risky. The Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF) released by the Department of Health and Human Services also showed that steroid abuse is common among male 12th graders. In another study, 0.5 percent of American adult used anabolic steroids.
Professional sports are also plagued with steroid related scandals. All of these sports organizations have their steroid testing policies and usually impose stiffer sanctions. For Olympic athletes, minimum sanction is 2 years while in other leagues it may give a minimum 50 game suspension to its athletes found using steroids and other performance enhancing drugs.
Recently a lab testing company introduced a steroids test kit which can be used at home. These could help the parents monitor their kids from these drugs and enhancers. These could also be used by professional athletes especially those who are taking supplements. Based from a survey of supplements available in the US market, it is noted that majority of it are tainted with steroids. These could lead to accidental doping. There are already numerous athletes who were sanctioned by their respective sports organization for accidentally taking steroids which were blamed on dietary supplements. Some of these athletes are swimmer Jessica Hardy and Olympian Serge Despress.
The test kit called SteroidConfirm can detect up to 17 different types of performance-enhancing agents. It uses Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry. It can accurately quantify substances well below regular cut-off levels by using urine sample. The kit provides a patented syringe with a sealable tube to prevent accidental spills or transport damage. It is less bulky but the syringe can provide ample volume of specimen required for the laboratory test.
It also includes Medical Review Officer report and a Chain of Custody form which can be used by organizations testing their employees, parents or individuals to help them interpret the result. According to the company, the results can be accessed through a secure online portal. The confidentiality of the results are also guaranteed since there is no personal information required.
According to Zeynep Ilgaz, CEO of Confirm BioSciences, “Concerns about body image and athletic performance may be leading teens, as well as adult men and women, to use anabolic steroids, despite the serious side effects of these drugs.” “Because people like the physical results they see when they use steroids, it can easily turn into steroid abuse. Often people begin to overlook the possible side effects of steroids and move from steroid use to steroid abuse.”
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