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It appears that the New York Police Department has decided that it has issues with police officers "Juicing", i.e. abusing anabolic steroids.

The mayor, a former police officer who generally takes the cops side on everything, and the chief of police, have decided to tighten the regulations, requiring that in addition to a prescription from their personal doctor, which has been a part of the contract for over a decade, they now have to provide the medical information to the NYPD's Office of the Supervising Chief Surgeon.

I guess that there was widespread use of various pill mills by officers, but the Police Benevolent Association doesn't care, so they sued to preserve their right to induce psychotic rages and cancer.

New York City’s largest cop union is suing Police Commissioner Edward Caban and Mayor Adams for implementing a new “zero tolerance” policy on NYPD officers using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, the Daily News has learned.

In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday, lawyers for the Police Benevolent Association alleged the previously undisclosed policy flies in the face of a legal agreement the union entered into with the city in 2011.

The 2011 contract prohibited officers from ingesting or possessing any anabolic steroid or other forms of human growth hormones without a medical prescription. However, the old standard didn’t require officers to run any such prescription by their NYPD district surgeon before starting to use it.

The new protocol — which was enacted on Dec. 26, 2023, and described in an internal memo reviewed by The News as a “zero tolerance drug policy” — beefs up the old rule by affirming that officers must “immediately notify their district surgeon” of any steroid prescription they receive and provide “all supporting medical documentation” to the surgeon backing up the need for the drug.

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The PBA’s lawsuit alleges the new protocol is illegal because it “unilaterally” revokes the 2011 standard without bargaining. The union says it is not challenging the prohibition on illegal steroid use.

No, they just want to make sure that any cop can go to a "Dr. Feelgood" who would write a prescription scrip on a roll of toilet paper.

Yes, steroid abusing cops is a good thing according to the PBA.