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Rick Collins — the attorney who has represented more steroid cases than anyone in America — on how the 1990 Steroid Control Act created the black market it was supposed to eliminate. Rick Collins is a lawyer, competitive bodybuilder, and the foremost legal authority on anabolic steroids in the United States. What he lays out in this clip is not opinion — it is a documented chain of cause and effect that most people in and around the sport have never heard explained this clearly. Before 1990, every steroid available in the bodybuilding world was an FDA-approved pharmaceutical product. Diverted, yes, but quality-controlled, legitimate, manufactured to standard. The 1990 Steroid Control Act changed that overnight. Big Pharma pulled back. Doctors stopped prescribing. Pharmacies stopped carrying. The demand did not disappear — it never does — and so a black market filled the gap. Mexican products with animal labels. Thai pink tablets. And eventually, raw powders shipped from China labeled as creatine, cooked in someone's kitchen, mixed with oil, poured into vials and sold on social media. Collins has seen the search warrant footage. He has seen the conditions. He is direct about what it means for the person injecting the product. His comparison to Prohibition is exact, not rhetorical. Criminalise the supply, keep the demand, and you do not eliminate the harm — you increase it and push it underground where there is no quality control and no accountability. He also dismantles the medical establishment's relationship with this topic. Endocrinologists, the specialists who should know the most about testosterone, largely do not. Most doctors received one afternoon of steroid education in medical school, framed around how to identify and stop use. Meanwhile bodybuilders have been right about resistance training, dietary fat, high protein, and the importance of testosterone for decades before the mainstream caught up. Bro science, Collins argues, had more right than it was ever given credit for. The clip also covers the Shawn Ray Arnold Classic situation, Lance Armstrong, the absurdity of a legal system that allows a doctor to implant bicep prostheses but not prescribe a moderate course of anabolic steroids, and what a genuinely rational drug policy in sport and medicine might look like. Watch the full episode with Rick Collins on YouTube and Spotify. #MuscleТalks #RickCollins #Steroids #AnabolicSteroids #BodybuildingLaw #SteroidControlAct #BroScience #Testosterone #BodybuildingHistory #BodybuildingPodcast

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