Steroid Maker Says NFL Players Take Anti-Balding Drugs to Hide Steroid Use

Filed under: NFL Police Blotter, PEDsConvicted steroid distributor David Jacobs tells the New York Times that he counseled about 10 NFL players on how to exploit loopholes in the league's drug testing program, including taking the drug finasteride, which is found in the anti-balding medications Propecia and Proscar and which can mask the presence of steroids in urine tests.Finasteride is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, but it is not banned by the NFL. According to Jacobs, players have received prescriptions from team doctors, claiming that repeatedly putting their helmets on and taking them off was making them go bald.Jacobs, who was sentenced on Thursday to three years' probation for distributing steroids, has said he helped NFL players, including Saints lineman Matt Lehr, obtain and use steroids. He now says he'll talk to the NFL about how to make its drug testing more effective -- but he says he won't name names.Permalink | Email this | Comments more...