Actor from "The Wrestler" denied release for steroid abuse treatment.

"Scott Siegel, 35, of New Rochelle, who had a small part in the Oscar-nominated film "The Wrestler," pleaded guilty last week to steroids possession and assaulting police officers with a motor vehicle and is awaiting sentencing. But his lawyer asked U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas to release Siegel on bail so he could receive treatment for dangerously low levels of testosterone brought on by two decades of steroid abuse - necessary treatment that he said the jail was unwilling to provide. Defense lawyer Barry Levin said his doctors believe Siegel needs testosterone-replacement therapy and will only deteriorate as he goes without it at the jail."

"She said Siegel does not need testosterone-replacement therapy because the steroids and their effects need to be washed out of his body in order to allow his body the chance to begin producing the normal levels of testosterone."

"Levin says Siegel's long-term abuse of steroids makes that impossible. Unable to access his daily two grams of anabolic steroids - 10 times the recommended therapeutic levels of the drugs - or produce his own testosterone, Siegel has dropped 32 pounds since his arrest in February. In addition, the low testosterone levels have exacerbated Siegel's panic disorder and anxiety attacks. Those attacks have twice resulted in Siegel being taken from the courthouse in an ambulance."

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