Originally Posted by
Iride01
...Sometimes I wonder if the only concern should be for methods that are truly harmful to health.
Trouble is, it isn’t about either-or, it’s a matter of dosages, ramping up and phasing out. Balancing this against that.
A course of PEDS that is ”safe” for the guy with the discipline and lab backup can be sketchy for a guy from a poorer team and outright lethal for the cat-whatever rider trying to do like the pros.
I Sweden some years ago there was an increased influx, accessibility and price drop on steroids.
They’d been available earlier too, but then at greater cost and effort.
The guys who got to them were pretty dedicated already.
Most of them managed quite well.
But suddenly they became available also to the casual gym goer.
And the cardio clinics started getting badly sick patients that didn’t fit the charts.
It wasn’t that much that these guys were overdosing, more simply mis managing their use.
Everything from taking the stuff but not doing the workouts to missing one day and doubling up on the next etc etc.
Any action that widens the controlled use of a substance will also widen the uncontrolled use.