The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990 is the principal mode of federal law relating to anabolic steroids. Pursuant to the statute, as well as extant federal criminal laws, several anabolic steroids are now classified as Schedule III controlled substances, and (among other things) their possession and distribution may are criminalized.
The term "anabolic steroid" means any drug or hormonal substance, chemically and pharmacologically related to testosterone (other than estrogens, progestins, and corticosteroids) that promotes muscle growth, and includes –
- boldenone
- chlorotestosterone
- clostebol
- dehydrochlormethyltestosterone
- dihydrotestosterone
- drostanolone
- ethylestrenol
- fluoxymesterone
- formebulone
- mesterolone
- methandienone
- methandranone
- methandriol
- methandrostenolone
- methenolone
- methyltestosterone
- nandrolone
- norethandrolone
- oxandrolone
- oxymesterone
- oxymetholone
- stanolone
- stanozolol
- testosterone
- trenbolone
- methandrostenolone
it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally
- to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance
- to create, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to distribute or dispense, a counterfeit substance.
Note also that the distribution of human growth hormones is prohibited
(1), whoever knowingly distributes, or possesses with intent to distribute, human growth hormone for any use in humans other than the treatment of a disease or other recognized medical condition, where such use has been authorized by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 355 of this title and pursuant to the order of a physician, is guilty of an offense punishable by not more than 5 years in prison, such fines as are authorized by Title 18, or both.
2. Whoever commits any offense set forth in paragraph (1) and such offense involves an individual under 18 years of age is punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, such fines as are authorized by Title 18, or both.
3. Any conviction for a violation of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection shall be considered a felony violation of the Controlled Substances Act [21 U.S.C. sections 801 et seq.] for the purposes of forfeiture under section 413 of such Act [21 U.S.C. section 853].
4. As used in this subsection the term "human growth hormone" means somatrem, somatropin, or an analogue of either of them.
5. The Drug Enforcement Administration is authorized to investigate offenses punishable by this subsection. |
