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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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0 3 - 0 7 - 2 0 0 7 Doctor linked to Chris Benoit charged with illegally distributing drugs
By Lance Pugmire
Phil Astin III, who was the doctor of pro wrestling star Chris Benoit, was charged in federal court in Atlanta on Monday with seven counts of illegal distribution of painkillers and other drugs.
Astin came under scrutiny by the Drug Enforcement Administration after injectable anabolic steroids and other drugs were found inside Benoit's Fayetteville, Ga., home after he and his family were found dead June 25.
However, the charges against Astin stem from the records of two other patients — identified in court records only by the initials M.J. and O.G. — showing Astin gave them painkillers and other drugs for medical purposes that prosecutors say aren't legitimate.
Astin is charged with wrongly prescribing drugs, including Percocet, Xanax and amphetamine-containing Adderall. He pleaded not guilty and was under house arrest until he could post $125,000 bond.
M.J. and O.G. received a combined 3,650 tablets from April 2004 to September 2005, court records showed.
Astin told investigators he wrongly provided undated prescriptions for drugs that Assistant U.S. Atty. John Horn wrote "have a high potential for abuse that can lead to severe psychological or physical dependence."
An investigator with the DEA reported in a sworn statement accompanying the indictment against Astin that a Fayetteville pharmacist said the Carrollton, Ga,. doctor provided Benoit with a 10-month supply of anabolic steroids every three to four weeks in the year that led up to the pro wrestling star killing his wife, son and himself late last month.
The DEA raided Astin's office after the doctor told a reporter he provided Benoit testosterone and met with the 40-year-old World Wrestling Entertainment performer hours before Benoit killed his wife, Nancy, and 7-year-old son, Daniel, by asphyxiation, and then hanged himself.
DEA investigator Anissa Jones wrote that a preliminary review of Astin's prescription writing showed he authorized "approximately 1 million dosage units of various pharmaceutical controlled substances in the last two years, [including] significant quantities of injectable testosterone cypionate, an anabolic steroid."
Jones also wrote that Benoit has been identified in a separate DEA investigation of a company, RX Weight Loss, "as an excessive purchaser of injectable steroids."
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