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...doping mission. "Because that taboo has been broken during their careers, athletes who have doped are often less inhibited about using drugs in normal life than clean athletes or nonathletes." That risk is confirmed by officials at the Monte Cristo Clinic, where 20% of patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction report a background in high-level sports...
...like a growing number of athletes, Michel attained such elation the wrong way. He eventually realized that performance-enhancing substances had ensnared him in the trap of addiction to even worse drugs. Last year Michel, who is 25, underwent several weeks of specialized detoxification treatment for cocaine and heroin addiction developed during his racing career. "I didn't realize just how big it had become," he says, "until a doctor warned me if I didn't get help soon, I'd be dead within months...
...problem. A 1999 report by experts at Paris' Monte Cristo drug treatment center found 18% of the 5,000 high-level athletes surveyed reporting drug dependency-most consequent to sports doping. That inquiry was launched after the discovery that 20% of the clinic's patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction had backgrounds in élite sports. Generally, French sports medicine experts believe around 10% of the nation's 13 million registered athletes have used performance-enhancing substances-a practice that will ultimately lead to addiction in 300,000-350,000 athletes, according to some estimates. And that's just...
...tech products like muscle-building steroids and blood oxidizing agents administered by attentive medical experts. "Sports fans protect the heroic image of athletes by using the term doping rather than taking drugs in sports," Michel points out. In reality, the drugs of choice for athletes today are amphetamines, cocaine, heroin and huge doses of caffeine-substances experts say often escape detection through a combination of masking agents, passage of time and connivance by officials. A popular injectable cocktail of those substances-known as a pot belge-contains drugs that are purer and far more addictive than those sold...
...While the refining can be volatile, it is not terribly complex, which means that meth labs are an ideal family business for industrious Asians, who set them up in converted bathrooms, farmhouses or even the family hearth. Unlike ecstasy, which requires sophisticated chemical and pharmaceutical knowledge to manufacture, or heroin, where the base product, the poppy plant, is a vulnerable crop, there are no limits to how much meth can be made or who can make...