Steroids seized at Sydney airport

[mugzy]

Thousands of steroid tablets have been seized by customs officers at Sydney Airport and a mailing facility during the Christmas break.

Figures show that the detection of performance- and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) by customs has almost doubled over the past three years.

A 65-year-old man had his luggage searched at Sydney Airport on Christmas Day after arriving on a flight from Thailand.

Officers found a range of steroids in the man's luggage and strapped to his body, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) said on Monday.

The man will be prosecuted by summons, a customs spokesperson said.

On Boxing Day about 12,000 steroid tablets were seized at the NSW International Mail Facility.

The tablets were hidden in a metal elephant statute from Thailand.

Annual ACBPS figures showed that the amount of PIEDs being detected while coming into Australia is increasing.

Customs statistics show that there were 5562 detections of PIEDs, which includes steroids and hormones, in 2010-11.

That figure jumped to 10,358 in the last financial year.

 

[hoodlum]

Not a surprise. Our customs are only getting worse and worse. Harshest at the airport, when I fly international I see th e security checks and can't believe drug mules even chance things these days.

 

[chez]

What was the catalyst for this harsh screening of steroids in Australia? Was there a lot of death by steroid cases?

 

[woodswise]

What was the catalyst for this harsh screening of steroids in Australia? Was there a lot of death by steroid cases?

The same thing that is a catalyst in the US: good old prejudice, which manifests itself as a puritanical need to fight "evil" by outlawing anything that is out of the social norm and that our hysterical media has hyped as causing various imagined ailments.

 

[rezjzzor084]

16 SEP 2013|AUSTRALIAN RACING BOARD http://www.thoroughbrednews.com.au/Spring-Racing/default.aspx?id=68683

that's a deadline for horse racing in australia - 1st of may 2014 - starting a total ban on the use of anabolic steroids both in and out of competition.

 

[chestrockwell420]

i feel sorry for my ausie buddies, such a tight grip on customs! be safe

 

[Fury]

Yep it's harsh.in the early 90s it was still really good.i never used ugl all pharm grade you just had to go to the right doc.ugl here in sydney was manufactured by the guys who were at uni who where studying to be chemist so hence it was easy money for them and it paid the tuition.there were other issues that also occurred which made the situation to what it is today.every time I walk into sydney airport I am always searched all the time lol.randomly they say lol.bb is a expensive past time here in Australia but people are still going to try and beat the system.