title: Growth hormone and anabolic steroids: athletes are the tip of the iceberg.
abstract: Professional Athletes' misuse of anabolic steroids, growth hormone and other drugs are the tip of a very large, mostly ignored iceberg, made up of people who receive these drugs for such non-medical uses as body-building, school sports and "anti-aging". Although these drugs are often used in combination, this article focuses on growth hormone. Fuelling the demand for these drugs are drug manufacturers, pharmacies, websites, clinics and their doctors.
authors.affiliation: Geriatrics Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, 88 East Newton St., Boston, MA 02118, USA. thperls@bu.edu
authors.forename: Thomas T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Perls
mesh_terms: D045930:Anabolic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D056352:Athletes; D004300:Doping in Sports; D004335:Drug and Narcotic Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D040541:Marketing / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D045930:Anabolic Agents; D013006:Growth Hormone