The article states that the domain names are brazen 
(legal steroids.com), boastful (HouseOf Muscle.com), authoritative (Anabolic shop.com) and (littleguy- gotbig.com).

Anabolic steroids are powerful hormones. According to WebMD, they affect the entire body. Some of the side effects are common to all users. Other side effects are specifically related to your sex and age.

Men who take anabolic steroids may:

• Develop breasts
• Get painful erections
• Have their testicles shrink
• Have decreased sperm count
• Become infertile
• Become impotent

Women who take anabolic steroids may:

• Grow excessive face and body hair
• Have their voices deepen
• Experience menstrual irregularities
• Have reduced breast size
• Have an enlarged clitoris
• Have reduced breast size
• Have a masculinized female fetus

Both men and women who take anabolic steroids may:

• Get acne
• Have an oily scalp and skin
• Get yellowing of the skin (jaundice)
• Become bald
• Have tendon rupture
• Have heart attacks

The Hartford Courant asks in its series:

"When is a computer part not a computer part?

When it is used to conceal $370 worth of steroids ordered from an underground website in Spain.

Steroids are not legal. No way

Teens who take anabolic steroids may:

• Have short height due to arrested bone growth.
• Girls may suffer long-term masculinization.

The newspaper bought anabolic steroids from black market websites in Poland, Spain and Moldova.

Scientific tests found lead, tin and arsenic and cancer-causing cattle fattener mixed in with the testosterone. No one asked the age of the reporters doing the investigation. The report stated that "kids can get the steroids and they are!"

"Dangerous" said the scientists after seeing test results on three batches of anabolic steroids The Courant, Hartford, CT. bought from the black market websites in Poland, Spain and Moldova. Reckless was another description and poison a third.

A fifth sample contained traces of a flammable liquid used in the production of plastics.

Federal agents, drug industry regulators and prosecutors said they have found Internet steroids terrifying.

William Ullmann of Northeast Laboratories, Berlin, CT said you would not want to have your loved ones anywhere near this stuff!

But the stuff continues and it looks like everyone is avoiding it. Why? Can't the Internet be controlled? The findings are terrifying.

His team found small amounts of arsenic and tin in the sample of Deca-Durabolin, one of the most popular body-building steroids. He said that ingested over a period of weeks, as bodybuilders do when they are on a 10-or 12-week cycle, the tin can cause headaches, vertigo and problems in the nervous system. He also said that the arsenic-trimethylsilylarsenous acid-can cause cancer.

Farmers used the steroids for fatter livestock and it could be used as a growth promoter somewhere in the world, according to Ullmann.

The test on Winstrol, the trade name for stanozolol, a powerful steroid linked to slugger Rafael Palmeiro was made. The label on the bottle, shipped from Madrid, said each pill was 50 milligrams. Not so. The team found they were 91 milligrams each, a concentration of steroids 82 percent higher than the amount on the label. There were no instructions on how much to take.

According to the Hartford Courant report, doctors, bodybuilders and former steroid abusers said that inexperienced users tended to take more of the drug than less. They would self-medicate and then seek out advice from seasoned users in the online chat rooms of steroid.com and elitefitness.com.

Ullmann said that a second sample of Deca Durabolin was mislabeled. It was another powerful steroid, testosterone propionate.

Ullmann explained that it would be like getting a mislabeled drug from a pharmacy. You do not know what you are taking.

The labeling problem is serious as the user does not know how many to take in a 24-hour period.

Hard-To-Control Internet Operators in foreign countries do not give a hoot who gets these steroids. They are out to make money. The Internet provides easy access and anonymity for both buyers and sellers who are often located in countries where steroids are legal, according to the Hartford, CT report.

Thomas McGinnis, a top pharmacist in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration who was interviewed by the Courant said that the ISP (Internet Service Provider) might be in China and the pharmacy might be in Poland. Some, he said, are invisible to Google searches. Plus, there is a problem with sites. If drug enforcers get close, they shut down and reopen somewhere else on the Internet.

The sites are slick. Buyers can in a matter of minutes place an order. Where is the individual who can vouch for the quality or the purity of what arrives in the mail. Nowhere.

Carmen Catizone, executive director of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy said in an interview with the Courant that so many different hands in so many different places have touched this stuff and no one has any idea what he/she is getting.

The handling of steroids has no middleman. When there is a conventional drug investigation, law officers can get a middleman and squeeze him/her to get to the source. "Not possible with steroids", investigators say.

It is almost like these Nigeria letters scam where con artists operate from Nigeria luring United States businessmen and others to think there are millions of dollars from a ring of thieves. They are looking for bank account numbers to grab and keep!

You can get a prescription for steroids at Oasis Longevity & Rejuvenation Institute of Delray Beach, Fla. All you have to do is send in medical history, results of a blood test and take a physical exam, copy of your driver's license and a signed treatment agreement, according to the Hartford Courant.

An increasing number of steroid users believe that this can be done. In the chat rooms of the major online steroid forums, users tout Oasis as an alternative to the underground labs and illegal online steroid peddlers, the Courant reports.

Oasis sponsors links on these sites and the owner of one forum urges his brethren to "avoid the unregulated crap that can make you sick or worse" and to take "the legal route" to buying steroids.

The Courant warns that the "patients" never see the doctor who prescribes the steroids. There is no valid doctor-patient relationship and the prescriptions don't meet national medical standards. They violate laws or regulations in 38 states, including Connecticut.

What are steroids? According to the Courant report, they are a Schedule 111 controlled drug, like painkillers and sedatives such as Vicodin and Seconal. To use them legally, you need a valid prescription and a medical reason.

There are not enough investigators to monitor all the sources for steroids. Oasis states that its methods are legal; however, Florida regulators disagree.

James McDonough, head of Florida's Office of Drug Control, which is responsible for coordinating the state's fight against drug abuse and illicit drugs, said in an interview with the Courant that steroids are not legal.

The major product lineup at Oasis is testosterone, a naturally occurring male hormone. In steroids, it is a chemically recreated building block and the basic ingredient in any anabolic steroid that is specifically designed to add muscle mass, the Courant reports.

Why can't these users see their own doctors? They can't contact their doctors because they are using steroids for non-medical reasons. Who makes the money? The on-line seller.

Can something be done? Parents and families can bond together. Parents should wake up and see what their sons and daughters are doing on the Internet at home.

Contact your legislators to start fighting for legislation and/or create an awareness that this is a serious, terrifying and maybe deadly problem for those who are taking steroids.

If this problem is ignored, it will not go away. It will increase to such a proportion that no one not even regulators will be able to fight it.