Congressmen rip NBA sterioid policy

Bill in works to impose strict testing on four major sports leagues

WASHINGTON - The NBA's steroids policy was branded "pathetic" and "a joke" by lawmakers Thursday, and the head of a congressional panel said he will propose a law creating drug-testing standards for the four major professional sports leagues.

House Government Reform Committee chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., opened a hearing focusing on the NBA by saying he'll produce a uniform testing bill next week. Davis promised the legislation he's drafting with ranking Democrat Henry Waxman of California and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., "will have more teeth than other bills introduced."

Davis didn't go into specifics but said the bill would cover baseball, the NBA, NFL and NHL. Waxman said their legislation would follow the Olympic model and would call for a two-year ban for a first offense and a lifetime ban for a second offense.

Those mirror the penalties in the Drug Free Sports Act, introduced last month by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., chairman of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee conducting a separate inquiry into steroid use.

Testifying before that panel Thursday, NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue said Sterns' bill "is not appropriate to be enacted in its present form. ...At least as it applies to the NFL, we feel that it is unnecessary."

In a nearby hearing room, Davis' committee was directing the sort of criticism at NBA commissioner Davis Stern and union leader Billy Hunter that it heaped on baeball officials March 17.

Washington Wizards guard Juan Dixon and Houston Rockets trainer Keith Jones also testified, and both said they didn't know of any steroid use in the NBA.

Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., called the NBA's policy "a joke." Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., said: "It is, in my opinion, rather pathetic."

Stern and Hunter said the issue will be addressed in negotiation to replace their collective bargaining agreement, which expires June 30. The league broke off talks Wednesday, and Stern painted a bleak picture Thursday.

"I'm not confident, because we're confounded as to how we can make a deal at this point," he said after testifying.









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Cannes, France - Hollywood bad boy Robert Downey Jr. thinks he's finally back in the game after struggling with the demons of drugs and alcohol during the past decade.

He strides into an interview room at teh Hotel du Cap, overlooking teh Riviera, while smoking a big cigar and wearing a broad, quirky smile.

"You're not in the game unless you think you're in things that are good," he says. "You have to take a modicum of pride in what you're doing." And Mr. Downey clearly thinks his latest movie, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, is worthy of pride.

"I think you're always getting better or getting worse," he says, "and I think I'm in a better zone."

Directed by Lethal Weapon screenwriter Shane Black and co-starring Val Kilmer, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang reformulates the buddy-cop genre by pairing an aspiring, screwed-up actor (Mr. Downey) with a gay detective (Mr. Kilmer).

As the clueless Harry Lockhart, Mr. Downey brings a fine comic sensibility to his performance. But it still isn't clear that the 40-year-old star has shaken his demons.

THE DARK SIDE

Mr. Downey clearly wants to make it look like he has his darker side under control, and you can't help rooting for the likable guy.

"I'm meditating, eating better and hardly smoking at all," he says. Then he pauses, looks at his cigar and stows it in a nearby ashtray.

Oops.

As for his troubled past, he says, he isn't that different from a lot of people in Hollywood who have had drug and alcohol problems "but didn't get caught." He's probably right, of course. But this comment doesn't sound like it's coming from someone who has been jailed and successfully completed rehab.

And when a fellow critic says that most people are rooting for him, he says he finds such attitudes "a little condescending." Then he backtracks, trying to explain that some people project their own problems onto others.

A NEW BUDDY

Whatever the case, Mr. Kilmer says he has become good buddies with Mr. Downey. As he walks up to a table where Mr. Downey is sitting, he plants a big wet kiss on Mr. Downey's cheek. "Hey, I'm gay!" Mr. Kilmer jokes, referring to his movie character.

As for real life off the set, Mr. Kilmer seems well aware that he, too, has a bad-boy reputation - and that their reputations posed a challenge for first-time director Black.

Mr. Kilmer says that part of his reputation stems from the fact that he used to hate the Hollywood culture. The star, who lives with his family in Pecos, N.M., says he has come to terms with the dog-eat-dog business, even though he doesn't want to live in it.

Still, Mr. Kilmer draws a big distinction between himself and Mr. Downey. "Robert actually did bad things," he says with a smile. "I just got accused of doing bad things."

So even if Mr. Downey seems defensive about his past, he at least has a new friend who doesn't pull punches.

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Bill would allow drug buying from Canada

AUSTIN- Texans would be able to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada under a bill tentatively approved in the House on Sunday.

"This would provide the safety and the cost savings" for Texas consumers, said Rep. Scott Hochberg, D-Houston, who sponsored a measure that would allow the Texas State Board of Pharmacy to create a Web site listing approved Canadian prescription drug distributors.

Texas would join at least eight other states ignoring a federal ban on importing prescription drugs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opposes importing drugs, arguing that U.S. officials cannot guarantee the products' safety.

"This is an attempt to pierce the closed system of regulating drugs in this country," said Rep. Vicki Truitt, R-Southlake.

Many Americans already buy drugs from Canadian pharmacies because they are less expensive. The amendment was attached to a bill that reauthorizes the Texas State Board of Pharmacy and passed with a vote of 114-17.

It would require the pharmacy board to inspect no more than 10 Canadian pharmacies and make sure they meet FDA, Texas and Canadian standards. Information about those pharmacies and how to order prescription drugs would be listed on the board's Web site.

Individuals and Texas Pharmacies could purchase only FDA-approved drugs. Only drugs that are prescribed for long-term use could be ordered, and no more than a 90-day supply could be purchased at one time. A Canadian pharmacy could not fill a first-time prescription.

Mr. Hochberg said the measure would prevent Texans trying to save hundreds of dollars on expensive drugs from being ripped off by online scammers selling bogus bedicine.

"For a lot of people, it's a difficult choice: You get to either buy your medicine or buy food," Mr. Hochberg said.














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Ex-NBA Shawn Kemp plead guilty to drug charge

SEATTLE- Former NBA standout Shawn Kemp pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted possession of more than 40 grams of marijuana.

District Court Judge Eileen Kato sentenced Kemp to five days of electronic home monitoring, a year of probation and a $440.






































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Hemp Products

A newspaper produced by Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico created a stir when an article cautioned service members who undergo drug testing to avoid hemp-based personal care products, such as sunscreen, or risk a positive test, according to The National Center for Drug Free Sport Inc.

The Hemp Industry has vigorously denied that their products could cause such an outcome and states that the Air Force's "concerns" are "not based in science," according to the Center.

One NCAA athlete reportedly blamed hemp products on a positive drug test for marijuana, but a connection was not found, reported Andrea Wickerman, legal relationg and policy director of Drug Free Sport.
































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Lawmakers ponder "Whizzinator"

By Mark Leibovich / Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Every so often, in the hushed galleries of Congress, history unfolds in a manner that casts the momentous business of Capitol Hill in stark, even humbling relief.
Then there are moments spent discussing the Whizzinator.
Tuesday morning in Room 2123 of the Rayburn Building, Rep. Bart Stupak, a sober-voiced Democrat from Michigan, held up an advertisement for the "drug-test subversion device," which received national attention last week when it was learned that an NFL player had been detained at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after authorities found the state-of-the-art prosthetic (with a packet of dehydrated urine) in his luggage. The player -- Onterrio Smith of the Minnesota Vikings -- was not arrested, but agents confiscated the device, word of his predicament leaked (ahem), and Smith became an inadvertent billboard for the Whizzinator.
The Whizzinator isn't quite the gold standard in athletic endorsements. Rather, Stupak is bemoaning the ease with which people can buy Whizzinators with credit cards, money orders or checks.
"How will we stop the flow?" he asks plaintively. He is referring to the "flow" of products like the Whizzinator by U.S. mail or UPS or FedEx. But a small cluster of spectators -- seizing on the unintended double-entendre -- giggle audibly in the back of the room.
It is one of those mornings.
The hearing -- which was scheduled before the Smith incident -- lasts three hours and includes testimony from federal investigators, district attorneys and representatives from the drug-testing sector (including the aptly named Barry Sample of Quest Diagnostics Inc.). They testify eloquently about the perils, loopholes and outrages inherent in drug-masking and "the human cost of adulterated or substituted specimens." They keep mentioning the Whizzinator.
Onlookers stifle cackles and snickers, or try to. "People want to make this a skit on `Saturday Night Live,' " says Rep. Joe Barton. But it's not funny, the Texas Republican says, not funny at all.
"You don't want to be able to walk into your local Kmart or something and buy a Whizzinator," testifies Susan Reed, the district attorney from Bexar County, Texas.
"This has been like free advertising for the Whizzinator," bemoans Robert Cramer of the Government Accountability Office's office of special investigations, referring to the Smith incident.
Cramer is stretching his legs during a brief recess while a small spectacle develops a few feet away. A press scrum gathers around Dennis Catalano, originator of the Whizzinator. He is one of three representatives from companies that make products apparently designed to subvert drug tests who have been compelled (by subpoena) to testify.
Catalano, who owns Puck Technology of Signal Hill, Calif., is something of a Henry Ford figure in this business. There are all manner of urine purifiers and substitutes on the market. But nobody beats the Whizzinator in terms of brand recognition, especially after Onterrio Smith.
Still, no one is revering these men as industrial visionaries. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., calls them "jokers" and asks one how he can sleep at night.
In response to questions from reporters, Catalano merely strokes his long gray beard and presses down on his lips with two fingers. How has the airport incident been for business?
"He will not be saying anything," says Barry Boss, Catalano's attorney. At one point, Catalano, who is wearing a white sport jacket over a Hawaiian shirt, emits strained squeaks, and one reporter asks if he is actually capable of speaking.
"Yes," Catalano whispers, now pulling on his beard.
Catalano returns to his seat when committee chairman Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., calls the hearing back to order. After a videotaped appearance by a prison inmate who testifies about the ease with which he could evade drug tests, Catalano and his fellow barons take seats at the front of the hearing room. They rise, in tandem, raise their right hands and take their oaths. Whitfield asks Catalano a question about the potential legitimate uses of the Whizzinator.
"On the advice of my attorney," Catalano says quietly, "I respectfully decline to answer under my Fifth Amendment right."
Whitfield dismisses Mr. Whizzinator, who bolts from the hearing room, grinning. He arrived in Washington this morning, on the red-eye from California, and is now headed back to the airport. No, he says in response to a question, he did not get to enjoy the spring day, see any sights or take in the monuments.
"But I've seen one of the greatest monuments of all," Catalano says, now fully animated. "I've sat before one of the greatest bodies in the world." With that, the originator of the Whizzinator marches toward a waiting car and into history.

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