N.J. doctor supplied steroids to hundreds of law enforcement officers, firefighters

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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/hundreds_of_nj_police_firefigh.html

Sunday, December 12, 2010, 7:30 AM Updated: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 8:18 PM
By Amy Brittain & Mark Mueller/The Star-Ledger

On a rainy August morning in 2007, the news rippled through New Jersey’s law enforcement ranks, officer to officer, department to department.

Joseph Colao was dead.

The 45-year-old physician had collapsed in his Jersey City apartment, the victim of heart failure.

Within hours, officers were calling the Hudson County public safety complex. snip

Kolich didn’t suspect foul play, but he found it odd — and a little disturbing — that so many officers were interested in the fate of a man with no official ties to any police agency. snip

In most cases, if not all, they used their government health plans to pay for the substances. Evidence gathered by The Star-Ledger suggests the total cost to taxpayers reaches into the millions of dollars.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Hundreds of cops on steroids

Come on -- this is some new http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman">Roger Corman movie, right?

--d!

[tinymontgomery]

2. If this was the average Joe on the street

He would be thrown in jail for having and using illegal drugs. I find this line very ironic "They have confiscated millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs" except the ones they used or possible kept. To Protect and Serve my ass.

[bemildred]

3. "just a few bad apples"

:sarcasm:

[w8liftinglady]

4. all I can say is "Ronnie Coleman"

http://www.bodybuildinguniverse.com/ronniecoleman.htm

[kenfrequed]

5. I wonder...

How many destablized moods this caused, how many outbursts of aggression, how much anger and frustration was aggrivated. Cops on steroids. What a stupid idea.

[Kingofalldems]

6. This is everywhere--I see bulked up cops all the time

One of these days this will rival the MLB steroid problems.