Matt Chaney's Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American Football.

"Steve Courson strode into the Pittsburgh neighborhood drugstore, looking huge and menacing in gym shorts and tank top. Other customers gawked at Courson's massiveness, the muscles bulging on muscles--He's a Steeler, they assured each other, noting the Super Bowl rings--but he paid them no mind. Though gentlemanly, respectful of people, Courson was in no mood for pleasantries or even eye contact; it was the NFL offseason, 1982, and he had come to the pharmacy to purchase anabolic steroids. No steroid prescription was required, not for Steelers at this drugstore. Courson quietly scanned the inventory, reading labels on plastic bottles and vials, asking nothing of the compliant pharmacist hovering nearby. This football player needed no advice about juicin'. He knew exactly what he wanted, ordering plenty of steroids for himself, his O-line teammates, and his power-lifting friends.

Into the shopping bag went Dianabol, Anavar, and Anadrol in pill form, and for injectables, Deca-Durabolin, Winstrol V, and the testosterone esters cypionate and propionate. Courson picked out other compounds, human chorionic gonadotropin to stimulate testosterone production, antiestrogens to counter side effects of cycling on anabolic androgens; he then finished with a box of hypodermic needle-syringes. Courson wrote a personal check for the total amount, grabbed up the bulging bag, and walked out."

1 comment:

  1. the only problem i see here is that corson picked up winny v at the pharmacy, winny v is a vetrenary drug, hence the "v", so there's some credibility lacking in that story

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