Posted Today, 08:04
Steroid vacation
EAMONN DUFF
PATTAYA: -- THERE'S something about the seedy Thai beachside town of Pattaya that keeps enticing Michael Dorn back - but it's not the sun, sea, sand or sex for which the resort is famous.
The 21-year-old from Blacktown is part of a thriving amateur bodybuilding subculture that uses anabolic steroids and growth hormones as a fast track to the ultimate ''ripped'' body. While the drugs are heavily restricted in Australia by laws that are among the strictest in the world, Dorn - and hundreds like him - have discovered a novel way around the problem: they travel to Thailand on ''steroid vacations''.
A Sun-Herald investigation has found that rather than risk prosecution in Australia, everyday gym users are travelling to Asia and ''stacking'' a dangerous cocktail of steroids that include powerful veterinary drugs and fertility medicine.
While police in Australia warn of a growing trade in steroids - and are increasingly finding them during raids aimed at party drugs - health experts say the products can cause life-threatening heart and liver damage, as well as baldness and infertility.
But in Thailand, price is part of the allure: during a two-week investigation, this reporter visited Bangkok and Pattaya pharmacies that sell some steroid brands for 10 times less than what they fetch on Sydney's black market.
Full source: http://www.wellingto...on/2569969.aspx
-- WELLINGTON Times 2012-05-28
Posted Today, 08:06
Living large in Thailand: Sharky's tale
TIM ''SHARKY'' WARD is an imposing former Gold Coast loan shark. He has also become an online social media celebrity among the amateur bodybuilding community, boasting more than 30,000 followers.
Now living in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, he openly admits to being a full-time steroid user.
''I take testosterone, I take deca [a popular, slow-bulking, synthetic steroid] for my joints and muscle tears and I take human growth hormones, which is phenomenal in that it gives me enormous energy and makes me so much more alert.''
Sharky has an opinion on most subjects - and when it comes to the young bodybuilders who frequent his town for steroids, he pulls no punches. ''I don't do it to stand in front of a mirror, rub myself in fake tan and win plastic trophies,'' he tells Fairfax Media. ''I do it because it makes me feel good, and whose business is it to say I shouldn't? Look at all the damage done by alcohol and tobacco. They cause far more destruction to people's lives.''
Full story: http://www.smh.com.a...0526-1zbtp.html
-- The Sydney Morning Herald 2012-05-28
Posted Today, 08:14
Lots of muscles but obviously no brain . Too bad the steroids dont work on that body part .
Posted Today, 08:19
Roid tourism?
Posted Today, 08:31
 webfact, on Today, 08:06 , said:
Living large in Thailand: Sharky's tale
TIM ''SHARKY'' WARD is an imposing former Gold Coast loan shark. He has also become an online social media celebrity among the amateur bodybuilding community, boasting more than 30,000 followers.
Now living in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, he openly admits to being a full-time steroid user.
''I take testosterone, I take deca [a popular, slow-bulking, synthetic steroid] for my joints and muscle tears and I take human growth hormones, which is phenomenal in that it gives me enormous energy and makes me so much more alert.''
Additional background information on the enormously energetic and alert steroid abuser:
Buchholz, on Yesterday, 19:31 , said:
farang000999, on Yesterday, 17:40 , said:
apparently the tim sharky character recently stabbed someone and got arrested.
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Edited by Buchholz, Today, 08:32 .
Posted Today, 08:31
gand, on Today, 08:27 , said:
and this http://www.thaivisa....riod-vacations/
Posted Today, 08:48
Buchholz, on Today, 08:31 , said:
webfact, on Today, 08:06 , said:
Living large in Thailand: Sharky's tale
TIM ''SHARKY'' WARD is an imposing former Gold Coast loan shark. He has also become an online social media celebrity among the amateur bodybuilding community, boasting more than 30,000 followers.
Now living in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, he openly admits to being a full-time steroid user.
''I take testosterone, I take deca [a popular, slow-bulking, synthetic steroid] for my joints and muscle tears and I take human growth hormones, which is phenomenal in that it gives me enormous energy and makes me so much more alert.''
Additional background information on the enormously energetic and alert steroid abuser:
Buchholz, on Yesterday, 19:31 , said:
farang000999, on Yesterday, 17:40 , said:
apparently the tim sharky character recently stabbed someone and got arrested.
.
I thought they arrested loan sharks in Thailand?
Posted Today, 09:58
this Tim wards guys facebook is quite hilariouse. He posts pics picking up different girls everynight from the bars and giving a humrouse view of peoples lives in pattaya.
Edited by storm2010, Today, 10:10 .
Posted Today, 10:17
Quote Look at all the damage done by alcohol and tobacco. They cause far more destruction to people's lives.''
Nice to see the classic drug-addict line used so freely. "Their drug is more harmful than mine".
Insert here also alcoholic saying at least I'm not a junkie. Meth-head saying at least I don't drink. Etc.Etc. Lovely.
Note also his use of "they make me feel good" & so that makes it okay. Same line as used by morphinists since the dawn of time.
He is correct that it is nobody's business except his own what drugs he abuses, until the day those drugs turn him psychotic & he unscrews some total strangers head like a jar-top. Some drugs are regulated not only to protect the users health but to protect society at large from that user. Steroids & growth hormones are regulated for BOTH reasons.
Synthetic steroids are incredibly harmful to the human body, brain & personality. Unless you are taking medical steroids for example for asthma, and it is essential to keep you alive, they should be avoided. Even in essential medical use, steroids are last resort & discouraged because of inflaming or generating personality disorders. Like all modern drugs of the last 100 years the long term effects can still only be guessed at, and doctors are continuously updating and changing their stance based on developing feedback. Drugs are launched with a fanfare then discreetly taken off the market a few years later when the bodies start piling up - this happens all the time.
All drugs (and foods) affect the human brain, and affect behaviour, to a lesser or greater degree. Steroids are 'uppers' and need to be maintained to stay 'up', to avoid the colossal crushing 'low'. You don't want to run into somebody coming down off long-term steroid abuse in a dark alley.
Secondly, black market drugs are cut with brick dust, laundry liquid and anything going. Toxins build up in the human liver and brain cause overload, again with potential psychotic effects. I get offered fake epilepsy drugs all the time in Thailand at 20% normal price, but I value my life so I only buy from hospital shop.
Edited by Yunla, Today, 10:23 .
Posted Today, 10:33
Why have Zyzz as a role model. Ripped at 21 yrs old, heart explodes at 22.
Live fast, die young, leave a pretty corpse.
Posted 32 minutes ago
storm2010, on Today, 09:58 , said:
this Tim wards guys facebook is quite hilariouse. He posts pics picking up different girls everynight from the bars and giving a humrouse view of peoples lives in pattaya.
So this Guy openly admits to take Illegal Drugs in Thailand on a daily Basis.
Quite Clever ...
Maybe someone should tell him that Steroids are Illegal in Thailand since a couple of years..
Posted 21 minutes ago
storm2010, on Today, 09:58 , said:
this Tim wards guys facebook is quite hilariouse. He posts pics picking up different girls everynight from the bars and giving a humrouse view of peoples lives in pattaya.
He seems quite proud to be himself,
and violently wonders why people comment negatively...
Gee willikers Uncle Bumps, dat man dun sho gun crezy
Edited by animatic, 20 minutes ago.
Posted 16 minutes ago
Nice to see the media is promoting a criminal.
Bring your mates and come pump ya self full of steroid drugs, then keel over and have a heart attack. Perfect!
But oh wait, then we at TV have to spend the next month listening to your family back home tell us what a great intelligent person you are.
Thailand's even got an industry promoter, get signed up to his Facebook page today. 
Posted 10 minutes ago
wallcracks, on 32 minutes ago, said:
storm2010, on Today, 09:58 , said:
this Tim wards guys facebook is quite hilariouse. He posts pics picking up different girls everynight from the bars and giving a humrouse view of peoples lives in pattaya.
So this Guy openly admits to take Illegal Drugs in Thailand on a daily Basis.
Quite Clever ...
Maybe someone should tell him that Steroids are Illegal in Thailand since a couple of years..
and so is prostitution, corrupt police and officials, gambling, sieges of cities, TIT
Posted A minute ago
Yunla, on Today, 10:17 , said:
Quote Look at all the damage done by alcohol and tobacco. They cause far more destruction to people's lives.''
Nice to see the classic drug-addict line used so freely. "Their drug is more harmful than mine".
Insert here also alcoholic saying at least I'm not a junkie. Meth-head saying at least I don't drink. Etc.Etc. Lovely.
Note also his use of "they make me feel good" & so that makes it okay. Same line as used by morphinists since the dawn of time.
He is correct that it is nobody's business except his own what drugs he abuses, until the day those drugs turn him psychotic & he unscrews some total strangers head like a jar-top. Some drugs are regulated not only to protect the users health but to protect society at large from that user. Steroids & growth hormones are regulated for BOTH reasons.
Synthetic steroids are incredibly harmful to the human body, brain & personality. Unless you are taking medical steroids for example for asthma, and it is essential to keep you alive, they should be avoided. Even in essential medical use, steroids are last resort & discouraged because of inflaming or generating personality disorders. Like all modern drugs of the last 100 years the long term effects can still only be guessed at, and doctors are continuously updating and changing their stance based on developing feedback. Drugs are launched with a fanfare then discreetly taken off the market a few years later when the bodies start piling up - this happens all the time.
All drugs (and foods) affect the human brain, and affect behaviour, to a lesser or greater degree. Steroids are 'uppers' and need to be maintained to stay 'up', to avoid the colossal crushing 'low'. You don't want to run into somebody coming down off long-term steroid abuse in a dark alley.
Secondly, black market drugs are cut with brick dust, laundry liquid and anything going. Toxins build up in the human liver and brain cause overload, again with potential psychotic effects. I get offered fake epilepsy drugs all the time in Thailand at 20% normal price, but I value my life so I only buy from hospital shop.
Nonsence... for the most part.
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