Patrick Arnold
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Patrick Arnold is an American organic chemist responsible for creating the designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone, also known as THG. THG, along with two other anabolic steroids that Patrick Arnold manufactured (norbolethone and desoxymethyltestosterone (DMT)), were drugs at the heart of the Balco scandal. They were distributed worldwide to world class athletes from a wide variety of sports ranging from track and field to professional baseball and football.
[edit] 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 the St. 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 BS 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 the nutritional 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.
[edit] Time in prison
Beginning in November 2006 Arnold served three months in prison at Morgantown federal correctional institution in west virgina for his role in the Balco incident
