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"National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), a U.K. government body that provides guidance on health services, has urged gyms to offer needles to people who inject anabolic androgenic steroids. It also urged gyms to provide needles to those injecting tanning drugs so that the risk of contracting blood-borne viruses can be reduced."

"Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI), the largest needle exchange service in the state, has reported a "dramatic increase" in the count of people, mainly men, who are injecting anabolic steroids."

"Some were cyclists who injected themselves with banned endurance boosters and popped testosterone pills. Some lay side by side with teammates while blood dripped from chilled IV bags and into their swelling veins. Others were doctors who helped cyclists dope or middlemen who ferried drugs for Lance Armstrong's United States Postal Service team."

"According to a new study, more than $1 million worth of heart attacks, strokes, and hospitalizations for other reasons were avoided by 1,000 Scotsmen aged in their 40s through 60s who had taken cholesterol-lowering statins for five years."