http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2003404352_steroids12.html

Growing pains: Venezuela deals with steroid testing

By Geoff Baker
Seattle Times staff reporter

CARACAS, Venezuela — It has taken nearly three hours
for Juan Casas to inch across this traffic-clogged
city by bus, simply for another desperate chance to
wave around two small pieces of paper.

The former Pittsburgh Pirates prospect clutches a pair
of prescriptions, his last hope of overturning a
50-game suspension for violating Major League
Baseball's drug policy while pitching in the
rookie-level Venezuelan Summer League. He insists he
tested positive for anabolic steroids after taking a
medication prescribed for bronchitis.





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