However, after the match Bari-Reggina on 21 January, he became the first player in Italy to be indicted for testing positive to Nandrolone.
He returned in the February when the club was wound up, and the players played without any money and played well for the rest of the season, it turned out though in the penultimate game of the season against Wolves, he had been taking Nandrolone after drugs testers turned up and asked to be taken off at half time.
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It is created as a byproduct of nandrolone via the 5-alpha reductase enzyme and is on the list of substances prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency since it is a detectable metabolite of nandrolone which is an anabolic steroid.
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According to the report, Bigbie admitted to purchasing and using a variety of performance-enhancing substances from Kirk Radomski from 2001 to 2005, including human growth hormone, Deca-Durabolin, Sustanon, testosterone, and anti-estrogen drugs.
On June 21, 2006, in an ESPN The Magazine article by Amy K. Nelson, Crawford, who is now out of baseball, admitted to using the steroids Deca-Durabolin and Winstrol, human growth hormone and amphetamines from 1999–2001.