In the wake of an ABC News report on the potential danger of college football teams injecting injured players with a powerful painkiller mid-game, a college and professional team doctor in Florida has come forward to say the risks to the health of the athletes far outweigh any potential reward.

Dr. Clifton Page, one of the team doctors for the University of Miami and the Miami Marlins pro baseball team, said that he has stopped using the generic version of the drug Toradol on his student and pro athletes.

“It was an easy decision for us,” Page told ABC News today. “The health of the athlete, I feel, is above anything else. Even above wins and losses.”

Page said that learning the possible adverse effects of Toradol was enough for him, including potential dangers to the heart or kidneys, not to mention the long-term health effects of allowing a player to play injured.

“[The players] were for it. They asked why we can’t do it… But once we give them the reason, they’re usually on board,” he said. “We want the athlete to have a healthy life outside football, so this one injection, during a pre-game, [is] not really that important compared to the rest of life.”

Page said he doesn’t necessarily support an all-out ban on the drug, but he wants to make sure both the colleges and the players are well-educated about the possible dangers of game day painkillers.

Page contacted ABC News following a report broadcast Thursday on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” “World News With Diane Sawyer” and “Nightline” and published on The Blotter.

In the report, former University of Southern California lineman Armond Armstead said that he suffered a heart attack after the 2010 season at age 20 – a season during which he said he was repeatedly shot up with generic Toradol.

FULL INVESTIGATION: Ex-USC Player Says Painkiller Injections Caused Heart Attack

In a lawsuit against the school and the doctor, Dr. James Tibone, Armstead claims the school ignored the stated risks of the drug and never told him about them.

USC declined to comment on Armstead’s claims or the use of Toradol to treat Trojan players, but has asked the court to throw out Armstead’s lawsuit. Tibone said he could not comment due to the lawsuit, but said USC uses the drug “diligently” on “young, healthy people.”

RELATED: Which Top 25 College Football Teams Inject Players With Controversial Painkiller?

A new, disturbing dramatization of a sailor ingesting “bath salts” and then having violent hallucinations is the latest salvo in the Navy’s ongoing fight against synthetic drugs.

The public service announcement, published online in December, puts the viewer in the shoes of a young sailor who snorts bath salts he received in the mail. A short time later the sailor vomits, but it isn’t until he meets his girlfriend for bowling that hallucinations strike.

Suddenly the girl appears demonic to the sailor and he assaults her. Later, the sailor’s roommate also turns into a demon before the sailor apparently collapses. Woken in restraints as he’s being brought to the hospital, the sailor groans in agony as medical professionals attempt to treat him. The video then shows Lt. George Loeffler, a Psychiatry Resident at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, as he describes the dangers of the drugs.

“When people are using bath salts, they’re not their normal selves,” he says. “They’re angrier. They’re erratic. They’re violent and they’re unpredictable…. People will start seeing things that aren’t there, believing things that aren’t true.”

Loeffler said that the most disturbing thing about bath salts is that the effects of paranoia can last days or even weeks after the drugs have left the user’s system.

Bath salts, which were the subject of an ABC News’ “20/20″ investigation in June 2011, are chemicals meant to mimic the effects of cocaine, LSD or methamphetamine that at the time could be easily and legally sold to anyone – including minors – as long as the warning labels said they were not meant for human consumption. The chemicals have nothing to do with bathing products.

Then in September 2011, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it was implementing an emergency ban on the narcotics to “protect the public from the imminent hazard” caused by bath salts.

Part of the “20/20″ investigation described the experience of BMX rider Dickie Sanders who ingested bath salts called Cloud Nine in 2010.

According to his parents, after taking the drug Sanders was convinced there were dozens of police cars and helicopters just outside the home, even though there were none. Then, suddenly, he grabbed a knife and sliced at his throat from ear to ear. He survived the knife wound and told his mother he had had enough.

“He actually looked at me and said, ‘I can’t handle what this drug has done to me. I’m never going to touch anything again,’” Julie Sanders said.

But hours later and without warning, Sanders had another psychotic episode and took his own life with a rifle.

The U.S. Navy has been battling the use of bath salts and other synthetic drugs by its sailors and Navy Medicine has set up a webpage specifically to educate sailors and the public about the potentially disastrous health risks involved.

CLICK HERE to visit Navy Medicine’s webpage “Synthetic Drugs and Your Health”

“There’s been a lot of finger pointing within our own government,” Kate Quigley, the sister of former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, told ABC News. “I would love to see that energy start to shift to finding those individuals [attackers] … I won’t be satisfied until I know who did it, where they are and what’s happening to them.”

Quigley said she is pleased with the State Department’s recent internal investigation into the deadly Sept. 11 incident that claimed the life of her brother and that of three other Americans including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. The report blamed a “systemic failure” by the State Department to address the security needs of the Benghazi facility, but did not cite any individual dereliction of duty. Still, four State Department officials have been “relieved from their duties,” a spokesperson for the department said, and are on administrative leave.

READ: ‘Systemic Failure’ By State Department in Benghazi Attack, Report Finds

While the State Department report provides the most detailed timeline of the attack to date, it does not go into who may have been behind it, saying “the key questions surrounding the identity, actions and motivations of the perpetrators remain to be determined by the ongoing criminal investigation.”

Quigley said she’s frustrated that even privately, more than three months after the attack, the government hasn’t told her family anything more.

“The company line is, ‘It’s under investigation and when the investigation is complete there will be a full sit down briefing,’” she said. “I haven’t heard any conversation about that at all.”

Glen Doherty was killed alongside fellow former SEAL Tyrone Woods on the roof of a U.S. government annex as the two fought off attackers, according to the State Department report. Doherty was reportedly part of a reaction team sent from Tripoli to help the besieged diplomats. The report said everyone on the ground “performed with courage and readiness to risk their lives to protect their colleagues, in a near impossible situation.”

Just weeks before his death, Doherty told ABC News in an exclusive interview that he was working in Libya on an intelligence mission related to the State Department’s effort to round up dangerous shoulder-fired rocket launchers that had been looted during the revolution there last year. He has since been identified publicly as a private contractor with the CIA.

READ: American Killed in Libya Was on Intel Mission to Track Weapons

After his death, Doherty’s family and friends set up an education foundation in the fallen SEAL’s name that aims to provide scholarships and grants for children of current or former special operations personnel. The foundation’s website says it’s meant to “pay forward Glen’s love for learning and his passion for igniting the spirit through adventure.”

Quigley said that the foundation is obviously just a few months old, but she’s excited for what 2013 may bring.

“We know we can do good with a little bit of money and a lot of good with a lot of money,” she joked.

CLICK HERE to Learn More About the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation

A spokesperson for the FBI, which is conducting the criminal investigation into the attack, did not immediately return request for comment for this report.

ABC News’ Dana Hughes contributed to this report.

A self-identified spokesperson for al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terror group, released a statement via Twitter Monday that is relentlessly critical of Alabama-born rapping jihadi Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, and assures everyone he holds no position of power in their anti-Western ranks.

“For months the Mujahideen [holy warriors] have been offering advice to Abu Mansur in private, without publicly rebuking him, employing every possible avenue to veil his faults, overlook his shortcomings and conceal the egregious errors he’d committed from the eyes of the Muslim Ummah [leadership]… It is regrettable, however, that all such efforts have been fruitless despite numerous attempts,” the statement says.

“We sincerely apologize to the Muslim Ummah in general and our Mujahideen brothers in all fields of Jihad in particular for having to witness such childish petulance,” it adds.

The statement claims Hammami repeatedly attempted to draw attention to himself and to “alleged voices of dissent within the ranks of the Mujahideen” at critical times in al-Shabaab’s losing fight against African troops in Somalia.

Hammami’s clashes with the al-Shabaab leadership have played out publicly online and apparently got so bad back in March that he uploaded a video in which he said he believed his life was in danger. A self-appointed spokesperson for al-Shabaab dismissed that claim at the time and the recent statement accuses Hammami of seeking fame.

Hammami first came to prominence by producing a series of pro-jihadi a capella rap videos and eventually wrote a lengthy memoir about his path to jihad. He was rumored to have been killed several times, but each time came back with a new, poorly-produced rap video taunting the American government.

Hammami’s father, Shafik, told ABC News today he was aware of the reported problems between his son and the al-Shabaab leadership and said he worries deeply for his son’s safety. Shafik hasn’t spoken to his son in years and Hammami’s mother, Debra, told ABC News in May that was the worst part.

“The silence has been devastating,” she said. “I don’t agree with [his] ideology of any of that, but I do love my son and I do have that motherly love.”

Last month the FBI officially added Hammami to its Most Wanted list. He was originally indicted in the U.S. in terrorism-related charges in 2007 and faces additional charges in a superseding 2009 indictment.

The FBI calls Hammami a “leader” of al-Shabaab and the State Department referred to him as “an important al-Shabaab voice on the internet” – two claims the al-Shabaab spokesperson was hoping to dispel.

“…Contrary to the portrait of the grand strategist, recruiter and fund-raiser portrayed by the Western media, Abu Mansur al-Amriki does not hold any position of authority within [al-Shabaab],” it says. “The Jihadi theatre nevertheless accommodates people of all sorts.”

Rudi Dekkers, a Danish national who used to run the Florida flight school Huffman Aviation, came to the attention of federal authorities in October when he was introduced to an undercover federal officer as an associate of  suspected drug smuggling kingpin Arturo Astorquiza, according to Texas court documents. Though Astorquiza was the target of the federal operation, Dekkers allegedly told the undercover officer in their first meeting that he “was involved in narcotics transportation via private aircraft and that he [had] flown narcotics and U.S. currency previously without any problems.”

After Astorquiza was arrested, the documents say Dekkers reached out to the undercover officer and offered his services directly. Federal investigators then began tailing Dekkers and eventually arrested him in early December when it appeared he was about to make a drug run for another customer.

The arrest comes more than a decade after Dekkers found himself in the national spotlight in the days after terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes and used them to kill nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2011. Federal investigators quickly identified Dekkers’ school, Huffman Aviation, as the location where two of the hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, earned their instrument certificates from the Federal Aviation Administration. Atta and al-Shehhi were the men at the controls of the planes that flew into New York’s World Trade Center buildings.

In an interview with ABC News in 2001, Dekkers said the men were unfriendly, but he didn’t think there was anything suspicious about them.

Because of his fleeting connection to the 9/11 hijackers, the years after the attack proved difficult for Dekkers as he described in his memoir “Guilt by Association.” He reportedly said in the book he received death threats and that people suspected he was somehow complicit in the attack.

In a recent interview with a local Fox News affiliate, Dekkers was asked if he thought he would ever outlive the shadow of 9/11.

“Yeah,” he said. “When I die.”

Dekkers has been charged with intent to distribute five kilos or more of cocaine and 100 grams or more of heroin. A Texas judge ordered he be held without bond, as the court said there was a “serious risk that the defendant will flee.”

Dekkers has not entered a plea in the case and his public defender declined to comment for this report.

Paul Coneally, spokesman for the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the organization that is hosting the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), told ABC News that the temporary outage the WCIT website suffered Thursday could just be the beginning of a series of online attacks.

“There were a lot of people claiming victory for that in the moments after it happened,” Coneally said. Coneally said his group is “bracing” itself for another attack Saturday that he said had been advertised online.

Coneally would not say who he believed was behind Thursday’s attack but said it was “ironic that people championing transparency don’t give you their name.”

The conference was organized to review who controls telecommunications internationally.  The Internet is one area it covers.

The loose hackivist collective Anonymous is protesting some of the more restrictive proposals made at the conference and its general organization, but in what appears to be a well-coordinated and widely distributed campaign, they do not call on their followers to conduct cyber attacks, only to pressure the WCIT to keep the Internet open.  Still, several Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous tweeted about the website outage and at least one is advertising a “Global Day of Protest” for Saturday.

“If the delicate balance of the Internet is upset, it could have grave consequences for business and human rights,” says a message, purported to be from Anonymous, that has widely circulated online. “This must be stopped.”

The close of business today marks the halfway point in the WCIT conference, held in a massive warehouse at the Dubai World Trade Center in the United Arab Emirates. More than 2,000 people representing over 170 countries have gathered to update a telecommunications treaty that was last negotiated in 1988 — a time when most people had only started hearing whispers of the Internet.

In an unusual twist, part of Anonymous’ argument appears to line up squarely with that of a historic foe, the United States government, which is proposing the revised treaty should have no impact on the way the Internet is already run. Some other governments disagree. Russia, for instance, has proposed the treaty be extended to cover the Internet so that governments can “regulate the national Internet segment” and ensure universal cyber security, according to a leaked version of Russia’s proposal posted online.

After a week of debating, Ambassador Terry Kramer, the head of the U.S. delegation to the WCIT, said the two sides are still locked and the U.S. isn’t budging.

“We’re resolute on these issues,” Kramer told ABC News today, “On whether the Internet gets governed or not. Fundamental… Are we going to allow cyber security to be mandated so that governments have to do certain things? We’re not going to allow that.”

Critics have also taken issue with the way the WCIT is structured. Though delegations are free to include whomever they want and private organizations are allowed to attend, voting rights only go to each country.

As one Anonymous-linked Twitter user said, “A few old ladies [and] gentlemen are flying to Dubai to protect us from the Internet.”

Two self-identified members of Anonymous did not responded to tweets asking for comment on Thursday’s website disruption.

CLICK HERE to learn more about the WCIT from the ITU’s website.

It goes like this: Over the weekend a blog maintained by McAfee and others claimed that the software tycoon, who is wanted for questioning about a murder in Belize, had been detained on the Belizean/Mexico border. But today a new blog post, written under McAfee’s name, said that the “John McAfee” taken into custody was actually a “double” who was carrying a North Korean passport with McAfee’s name.

The new post, called “I Am Safe,” says the real McAfee is “not in Belize, but not quite out of the woods yet.”

The thing is, the spokesperson for Belize’s National Security Ministry, Raphael Martinez, told ABC News today that no one by McAfee’s name was ever detained at the border and Belizean security officials believe McAfee is still in their country.

“I am wondering… All of these allegations he’s making, they make you wonder if his state of mind is okay,” Martinez said.

McAfee’s blog says he is on the run with his 20-year-old girlfriend Samantha and two reporters from Vice Magazine. “We are well, but extremely tired,” he said. The blog says he plans to release a video later today.

McAfee, who previously told several major media outlets he never planned to leave Belize, said in the post he wants to find a safe place for Samantha before he returns. “My fight is in Belize, and I can do little in exile.”

McAfee also criticized the mainstream media for trying to “maintain a sensationalist story” and ignoring the fact that three of his “friends” have been arrested. Belizean authorities confirmed the arrests to ABC News last month.

The founder of the McAfee anti-virus company has been on the lam since Nov. 11 when his neighbor, Greg Faull, was found shot in the head. Though he has not been formally charged with the crime and is only wanted for questioning, McAfee maintains his innocence and claims that he will be killed if he is taken into custody.

But running from the authorities doesn’t mean McAfee has been keeping quiet. He gave his first broadcast interview to ABC News last month and has since spoken with a number of major news outlets. McAfee started the blog a few days into the run and in it described the elaborate disguises he used to hide from police in plain sight and conduct his own investigation into Faull’s murder.

“My safety is contingent on the truth being discovered,” McAfee wrote in the blog.

Martinez said that Belizean police have not launched an “all out manhunt” for McAfee, since he is only wanted for questioning, but that would “definitely” change if McAfee is deemed a suspect.

After hearing some of McAfee’s public statements in the early days of his flight from the authorities, Belizean Prime Minister Dean Barrow said the American expat seemed “extremely paranoid” and “bonkers.”

“They may call me as they wish,” McAfee told ABC News earlier this month. “I do not intend to turn myself in, no matter what they call me.”

ABC News’ Matt Gutman contributed to this report.

In a telephone interview with CNBC, McAfee recounted an incident before the murder investigation in which dozens of Belizean officers allegedly stormed his compound, arrested him, detained him for hours, and then let him go without charges. When the CNBC anchor asked McAfee why he thought the police had done that, McAfee said it was because he “does not play by the rules.”

McAfee said he pumps millions into the local economy, but said, “I don’t do it by giving to the government and letting them dole it out because if I give $5 million to the government, $10,000 goes to the people and $4 million plus change goes into the pockets of the politicians. I give directly to the people. And I have been doing this all along.”

“I do not donate to any political party. When I was asked to donate, I said, ‘Get the f*** off my property,’” he said.

McAfee and the show’s anchor immediately apologized for the slip.

The founder of the McAfee anti-virus company has been on the run from local police since Nov. 11 when his neighbor, Greg Faull, was found shot in the head. Though he has not been formally charged with the crime and is only wanted for questioning, McAfee has maintained his innocence and claims that he will be killed if he is taken into custody.

But running from the authorities doesn’t mean McAfee has been keeping quiet. He gave his first broadcast interview to ABC News earlier this month and has since spoken with a number of major news outlets, most recently today’s chat with CNBC.

The 67-year-old also started a blog a few days after his run began, and in it he describes the elaborate disguises he uses to hide from police in plain sight and conduct his own investigation into Faull’s murder.

“My safety is contingent on the truth being discovered,” McAfee wrote in the blog. As of the publication of this report, the blog appeared to be suffering technical issues.

Today McAfee said he is beginning to run out of money and is having trouble getting cash from a bank in Belize “oddly enough.” But still, he said he has no plans to leave the small Central American country.

“Everything I have is here in Belize,” he said.

After hearing some of McAfee’s public statements in the early days of his flight from the authorities, Belizean Prime Minister Dean Barrow said the American expat seemed “extremely paranoid” and “bonkers.”

“They may call me as they wish,” McAfee told ABC News earlier this month. “I do not intend to turn myself in, no matter what they call me.”

The Florida socialite who sparked an investigation that brought down CIA head David Petraeus will be relieved of her ceremonial position as honorary consul for South Korea because she allegedly tried to “peddle influence” and profit off business deals there, a top South Korean official said today.

According to South Korea’s semi-official Yonhap News Agency, South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kyou-hyun said, “It is not suitable to the status of honorary consul that [she] sought to be involved in commercial projects and peddle influence.”

Kyou-hyun’s comments come in the wake of allegations from New York businessman Adam Victor that Kelly had claimed she had access to top Korean officials and could help him land a multi-billion dollar gasification deal, as detailed in emails from Kelley obtained exclusively by ABC News. Victor said that when Kelley asked for an exorbitant $80 million broker’s fee, the request prompted him to “terminate [their] relationship.”

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Kelley Emails Show Her Eager to Make Multi-Billion Dollar Deal

The Yonhap report also says that South Korean officials had appointed Kelley to the honorary consul position in August “at the recommendation of Petraeus” – an apparent corroboration of a claim Victor says Kelley made to him when they discussed the gasification deal.

“Ms. Kelley made it clear to me that Gen. Petraeus put her in this position, and that’s why she was able to have access to such senior levels [of the Korean government,” Victor told ABC News earlier this month. Victor claimed Kelley said “that they were essentially doing a favor for Gen. Petraeus, and that she had access solely because of her relationship with Gen. Petraeus.”

In a previous ABC News report, Steve Boylan, a friend and former spokesperson for Petraeus, said it was “nonsense” that Petraeus had any part in the gasification deal. “He knows nothing about it,” Boylan said. “What other people do, he can’t control.” Another source told ABC News that Petraeus had asked Kelley to stop throwing his name around.

A close friend of Kelley’s, Tampa real estate developer Don Phillips, said he didn’t believe Kelley tried to profit from her connection with Petraeus, saying “There’s no dark plot here. There’s no conspiracy. There is no grand crime.”

Kelley was thrust into the international spotlight earlier this month when she was identified as the woman who sparked an FBI investigation that eventually led to Petraeus’ resignation from the CIA. Months ago Kelley told an FBI friend that she had been receiving harassing emails from an anonymous sender. Agents with the FBI tracked the messages to Paula Broadwell, Petraeus’ biographer, and in the course of investigating Broadwell, discovered that Petraeus and Broadwell were having an affair.

The FBI notified the White House of the affair a day after President Obama was reelected and Obama accepted Petraeus’ resignation two days later.

TIMELINE: Sex and the Spy, The Petraeus Affair

The best of the British code breakers have apparently met their match in a WWII-era secret message recently discovered attached to the leg of a long-dead pigeon.

Cryptographers at Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the spy agency in charge of signals intelligence, have been analyzing the short handwritten message for weeks but threw up their hands Friday, saying it will be impossible to decode “without access to the original cryptographic material.”

The note, written on official stationary with the heading “Pigeon Service,” was discovered in a red canister attached to the skeletal leg of a pigeon in a chimney in Surrey. The message is made up of 27 seemingly random five-letter blocks and though it’s undated, government analysts believe the pigeon met his end while on a secret mission during the Second World War. The note is signed “Sjt W Stot” and was intended for the destination “XO2.”

In a statement released overnight, the GCHQ said that during the war, secret communications would often utilize specialized codebooks “in which each code group of four or five letters had a meaning relevant to a specific operation, allowing much information to be sent in a short message.” The GCHQ said that those messages may have been put through an additional layer of security by being re-coded with what’s known as a one-time pad.

One-time pads make up a theoretically uncrackable secret communications system in which an agent could encode a message using a key that uses truly random numbers to translate plain text into what looks like jibberish. The recipient of the coded message would then only be able to decode the message if they possessed an identical key. After a single use, both keys would be destroyed.

“This means that without access to the relevant codebooks and details of any additional encryption used, it will remain impossible to decrypt,” the GCHQ said.

Nearly a quarter million carrier pigeons were used during the Second World War by various branches of the British military including Britain’s Special Operations Executive, according to the GCHQ. In the air, the small birds fought their own version of the war, braving enemy hawk patrols and soldiers on the ground taking potshots.

The GCHQ has enlisted the Pigeon Museum at Bletchy Park to trace the identity of the pigeon – each was given a service number – but is still seeking information on what “Sjt W Stot” and “X02″ could tell them about the note’s origin and purpose. Was it vital information about the secret D-Day invasion plans? Was it nothing but a training exercise?

One GCHQ historian told BBC News the most helpful suggestion came from the public already:

“A member of the public… suggested that, since the message was found in the chimney, the first two words are most likely to be ‘Dear Santa,’” the historian said.