- Patrick Arnold
Patrick Arnold is an American
organic chemist responsible for creating the designer steroidtetrahydrogestrinone , also known as THG. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/04/sportsline/main1867975.shtml Creator Of 'The Clear' Imprisoned] CBS News, 04 Aug 2006, retrieved July 2007] THG, along with two otheranabolic steroids that Patrick Arnold manufactured (norbolethone anddesoxymethyltestosterone (DMT)), were drugs at the heart of theBALCO scandal. [ [http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/can/press/2006/2006_08_04_arnold_sentencing%20press.htm Chemist Who Created "The Clear" Sentenced] , United States Department of Justice Press Release, 04 Aug 2006, retrieved July 2007] At the time of their creation, they were not on any banned substance list. BALCO distributed these worldwide to world class athletes from a wide variety of sports ranging from track and field to professional baseball and football.Notoriety
Patrick Arnold first gained notoriety for bringing the prohormone
androstenedione (more commonly known as 'andro') to the market in 1996. In 1998,Mark McGwire of theSt. Louis Cardinals was found by a reporter to have a bottle of androstenedione in his locker, which led to controversy regarding the status of the supplement as an unfair performance enhancer.Patrick received a degree in chemistry from the
University of New Haven in 1990. In the early 90's he worked in the chemical industry at companies such as Uniroyal Chemical and ISP Technologies as well as attended graduate school. Patrick left the industry to join thenutritional supplement industry in 1996 when he traveled to Illinois from Connecticut to start LPJ Research with Ramlakhan Boodram of Champaign. In 2003, Boodram and Arnold changed the name of the company to Proviant Technologies. Proviant markets sports nutrition supplements under the brand nameErgopharm .Time in prison
Arnold was sentenced to three months in prison at
Morgantown Federal Correctional Institution inWest Virginia for his role in the BALCO incident.References
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