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What goes on to a regular guy who dopes? Surprised to discover that pro athletes aren't the only real ones taking performance-enhancing chemicals, journalist Andrew Tilin goes into search of the common juicing Joe, searching for a few things out: Why would normal people take these chemicals? Where do people get them? Does the stuff actually work? But these questionable drugs often silence their users, therefore his queries might have gone unanswered possessed Tilin not appeared in the mirror and succumbed to interest. Soon wielding syringes, this fortysomething hubby and father of two children becomes the doper next door. During his yearlong odyssey, Tilin is transformed. He becomes more powerful, hornier, and aggressive. He wades into a subculture of doping medical professionals, real-estate agencies, and ageing women who believe Tilin's kind of legal hormone-replacement therapy is the key to remaining young, and he often agrees. He also lives with the price paid for renewed vitality, fretting about his health, marriage, and cheating ways as an amateur bicycle racer. And all on the way, he instructs us what doping is very like: empowering and frightening.
