Rick Collins
DEFENSE LAWYER & PED LEGAL EXPERT
Collins Gann McCloskey & Barry PLLC, United States
anabolic-androgenic steroids, performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), criminal defense, lawyer
Rick Collins, JD, CSCS, FISSN is a law partner in the firm of Collins Gann McCloskey & Barry PLLC, in Mineola, New York. As a former criminal prosecutor, he is widely considered one of the world’s foremost legal authorities on performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs) and supplements. He has served as lead defense attorney on countless criminal and administrative cases involving anabolic steroids and related drugs throughout America, and has defended against doping allegations internationally. He is the author of the groundbreaking legal treatise on anabolic steroids, Legal Muscle: Anabolics in America, and has written extensively on the topic of non-medical steroid use for legal publications including the Criminal Justice Journal of the New York State Bar Association and The Champion, the publication of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has contributed chapters to two texts on sports nutrition and has co-written a textbook chapter on adolescent use of PIEDs. He frequently writes for various fitness and bodybuilding publications, and has been a monthly columnist for the nationally circulated Muscular Development magazine and a member of their Advisory Board since 2001. Rick has been interviewed as a legal authority on PIEDs in the film “Bigger, Stronger, Faster*” (2008) and on national television talk and news shows, in talk radio interviews, and by countless online and print publications. He was a member of a four-person research team that conducted and published an Internet survey of the demographics, motivations and patterns of use of 1,955 male adult non-medical anabolic steroid users in the United States. As a former award-winning bodybuilder and co-owner of a personal training business, Rick has a lifelong dedication to fitness and is also a nationally Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS). He can be reached through his website at www.steroidlaw.com.