Signature Pharmacy Raided!!! Now what?

**TuxAndrews** · 02-27-2007, 10:33 PM

WOW! Is the whole industry coming to an end????

**duke911** · 02-27-2007, 10:35 PM

I just called the board sponsor a few days ago. But now, i'm a little worried.

**TuxAndrews** · 02-27-2007, 10:39 PM

Yeah...there will be no more hrt clinics possibly...The goverment for whatever reason is going after all of them!! isn't Obesity the #1 killer in the USA..? Why would they try to put an end to HRT therapy??? It all doesn't make sence...

**duke911** · 02-27-2007, 10:42 PM

I was wondering what, if anything will happen to the customers?

**TuxAndrews** · 02-27-2007, 10:45 PM

nothing...im sure..there are millions of customers!!! I would think only the dr's involved and the pharmacy owners....possibly the clinic owners.but really it all comes down to the person writing the prescription and the person filling it!!!

**nbkandrew13** · 02-28-2007, 11:13 AM

hey i think you need to edit the pharmacy nemae

**huzurdaddy** · 02-28-2007, 11:22 AM

why would you edit the name.. it's only all over the national news media. no secrets there. They even said they weren't going after the customers, just the docs and pharmacy owners.

**nbkandrew13** · 02-28-2007, 11:23 AM

well above the mods already edited one sig posting

**Maldorf** · 02-28-2007, 01:00 PM

This will mean great business for the underground market. Wondering if prices might change some as more of these "clinics" go down?

Im also worried about them going after research substances like clen and arimidex being sold online.

**Jack Rabbit Slim** · 02-28-2007, 01:37 PM

Sig. pharmacy is not the only pharmacy out there. There are many that operate legally. The pharmacy raided was selling to clinics that sold anabolics and hgh to customers in New York. New York rules are that the Doctor prescribing the medication has to be a registered Doctor with that state, Which in this case they were not. That is what gave the DEA their opportunity to raid them. The worst case scenario I think will happen is that the clinics will now have a limit on how much you can order in a certain time frame. They will not completely get rid of it all together.

**poloblue** · 02-28-2007, 02:59 PM

one word "domestic" nuff said!!!!!!!

**sf77777** · 02-28-2007, 03:03 PM

The "legit" pharmacy in FL where I was getting test and deca via their presciption is also shut down (not the one mentioned above). Looks like things are tight.

**fatrock** · 02-28-2007, 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by Maldorf

This will mean great business for the underground market. Wondering if prices might change some as more of these "clinics" go down?

Im also worried about them going after research substances like clen and arimidex being sold online.

I dont htink that we have to worry about clen or adex going down they are sold Leagaly as research chemicals only. It would take a lot of effort and time for that.

RA · 02-28-2007, 03:14 PM

Its a losing battle. There will always be supply if there is a demand.

**crazycrab** · 02-28-2007, 03:22 PM

received test from the new hrt clinic and was a different pharma. I was wundering if they are connected. ( Hope not!!)

**jrotex** · 03-06-2007, 08:47 PM

Two more people linked to a nationwide investigation into the illegal sale of steroids were arraigned Tuesday on drug-related charges as a published report implicated more athletes, including the winner of the Ohio bodybuilding competition named for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Also Tuesday, SI.com reported that former star relief pitcher John Rocker, 1996 Olympic wrestling gold-medalist Kurt Angle and major leaguer David Bell all showed up on a client list of Applied Pharmacy, a Mobile, Ala., company raided in connection with the investigation.

Through his spokeswoman, Rocker, who pitched for the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Devil Rays, denied any knowledge of the prescription and denied ever receiving a banned substance, SI.com reported.

Bell told SI.com he received the shipment of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG ) last April but said the drug was prescribed “for a medical condition,” which he declined to disclose.

Steven and Karen Lampert of Anti-Aging Centers in Nanuet pleaded not guilty in an Albany County, N.Y., courtroom and were released without bail. They are charged with submitting prescriptions to a Florida pharmacy — some “obviously forged” according to the district attorney — for drugs totaling more than $50,000 for people without a medical need.

Steven Lampert is charged with 20 counts, his wife with two.

“It seems as though our clients have much less involvement than the others,” said Jay Golland, a lawyer for Karen Lampert.

Prosecutors describe the Lamperts as “criminal associates” of Signature Pharmacy in Orlando, Fla. Albany County District Attorney David Soares says Signature was at the center of a web of businesses and doctors that illegally wrote prescriptions for steroids.

The arraignments come a day after not guilty pleas were entered in Albany by 11 other defendants, including four Signature Pharmacy officials.

Soares acknowledged that bodybuilder Victor Martinez was an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the case and is linked to the Lamperts’ Anti-Aging Centers. Martinez won the Arnold Classic bodybuilding competition Saturday in Ohio.

A spokesman for Schwarzenegger said he wants bodybuilders to stop using steroids.

“He’s clearly opposed to these steroids,” said Aaron McLear. “And he’s working with top officials in the bodybuilding community to come up with a system where they rid the sport of steroids.”

Martinez told The New York Times he bought testosterone from the Lamperts after their clinic told him he had low levels of the hormone. He also said the company asked him to become a partner, but he declined.

“I didn’t trust them, and other people were warning me not to do business with them,” he told the Times.

Calls placed by The Associated Press to Jim Lorimer, a bodybuilding promoter and co-creator of the Arnold Classic, were not immediately returned.

**John88Test** · 03-06-2007, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Maldorf

Im also worried about them going after research substances like clen and arimidex being sold online.

I am also worried about this as well.

**jdavis2007** · 03-06-2007, 08:59 PM

The morons that are selling "prescriptions" online are not going to last. The legit HRT clinics, where you actually have to meet with a doctor and have blood and saliva samples to be pulled to see if you are actually deficient, will still be here. There is nothing that says it is legal to get a prescription by answering a few questions that anyone can easily manipulate to make it seem like you are deficient. These places are not martyrs for "the cause" when they are making it a mockery by doing all this BS when it comes to distributing drugs. They might as well have been your local gym dealer. I live near one of the clinics that got busted, and they were selling to high school coaches...which hopefully weren't giving any to their kids that they coach. That would be a shame.