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 More General NewsGeneral LinksAdmitted steroid user Jose Canseco was detained for more than nine hours at a San Diego Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Thursday afternoon after border agents caught him trying to bring human chorionic gonadotropin across the border. The fertility drug, extracted from the urine of a pregnant woman, helps produce testosterone in athletes who are cycling off steroids. A prescription is required to use HCG, according to anti-doping expert Dr. Gary Wadler. Canseco did not have a prescription. "We're certainly hopeful he will not be charged with anything," attorney Greg Emerson said of his client. "This is an incredibly harmless drug. We're not talking about morphine or cocaine possession. Why he attracted so much attention is a bit of a mystery. "I think that ICE had to try and legitimize 9-1/2 hours of detention, so they said, 'If we don't try to stick something to this guy, it's going to look really bad.' The ICE agents found nothing in Jose's home. Really, in the big scheme of things, this has nothing to do with baseball or steroid use." |
