All this talk of doping got me thinking..

That's why they call it Dope ?

That is interesting, is there a place where people should be doing steroids?? 

I know a few people that told me they've used steroids.  One was just a guy that was just into lifting weights.  Nothing competitive, he just wanted to get stronger and increase the amount he could bench/shoulder press.  He said he ordered it off the internet.

Another guy I knew told me he was using it to enter amateur body building contests.  He had used it prior, but as the time he was trying to get to competition level again clean...but said if he couldn't get the results, he would go back on "the juice".

A friend of mine is has been taking steroids or something to that effect just to get bigger.  No other reason.  I've taken steroids a few times medically for recovery, but never with the intent to get bigger or fast or anything like that. 

Foggy you might know this because of your body building back ground.  I worked with a guy that was a body builder, and he told me there are separate competitions for steroid use and Natural body builders.  It makes sense if using steroids isn't illegal in body building..

Never have.  I even stay away from the over the counter legal stuff like Creatine and Glutamine.  Not saying they're bad, i just didn't know much about them so I didn't take them.

I have read several articles that the most rampant steroid use in in the neigborhood gym. That there are scores of people using them not to get huge or compete... just to get over a platau, or just to get a bump. A friend of mine lifts with the big crowd at the gym and he can get what ever he want whenever he wants. He never wanted...

Never really heard about peds. I don't find it super hard to belive that there are many of those same ameture types in our ranks that just want to break that time, or just want to climb higher... or recover better like when they were 20. I don't use any drugs of any kind so that isn't me... but there are probably plenty of driven ametures out there that say the same thing about PEDS as folks say about weed and alcohol..... I'm an adult, who's it hurting if I decide that's what I want to do?

I read that article! Best link I could find:

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/anabolic-steroids/aas-epo-article-outside-magazine-552736.html

It is a VERY interesting read.

Every "natural" show I was ever in was certainly won by somebody who was anything but...

I've never taken PED's. Like said before, there isn't really anything for me to "gain" from doing it, and therefore no real temptation. Were I teetering on being a pro athlete (cycling, bodybuilding, football, whatever) or something like that, I don't know what I would do if offered. I'd like to think I'd say no, but honestly, I'm not so sure what I would do.