Back in the 1990s, steroids could be surreptitiously purchased out of the trunk of somebody's car. A decade ago, they could be found in dietary supplements sold on bodybuilding Internet sites.Now, steroids are readily available through Amazon.com, according to a prominent anti-doping researcher who ordered several dietary supplements from the consumer Web site and tested them to verify that they indeed contained potent, illegal - and potentially dangerous - oral steroids."To me, it's absolutely an amazing story," said Don Catlin, the...
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