The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Drugs
Praise forThe Doper Next Door"Tilin [enters] the shady world of the "anti-aging" industry, populated with past-their-prime jocks and fading beauties, "Dr. Iffys," hucksters, and much confusing and contradictory information on the effects, positive and dangerous, of rubbing testosterone cream on one's private parts and injecting other drugs in search of better performance on the road, in bed and in the mirror. Tilin is an engaging writer, and even though he wades into an arena ripe for mockery, he provides mostly gentle portrayals of the people he meets during his testosterone-boosted year." —San Francisco Chronicle“A good book—timely, engaging, honest and well-researched . . . it raises excellent ethical questions about hormone replacement, supplementation, anti-aging and drug abuse." — Peter Brown Hoffmeister, author ofThe End of Boys"Timely, engaging, honest, and well-researched." —The Huffington Post"For the voyeur." —Bicyclingmagazine“Andrew Tilin took on a risky, difficult assignment when he decided to act as his own guinea pig—in a clandestine study of the powerful effects that supplemental testosterone can have on a weekend athlete and family man. The result is amazing: an incredible thrill ride through the back alleys of sports doping, hormone replacement, and anti-aging medicine.The Doper Next Dooris participatory journalism at its best.”—Alex Heard, editorial director atOutsidemagazine and author ofThe Eyes of Willie McGee"Andrew Tilin plunges fearlessly into a culture that we hardly new existed, one in which a hopped-up citizenry’s high hopes and false heroes trump all else, and enlists in a first-hand reckoning with the real questions we should be asking about performance enhancing drugs. There are no easy answers—just the challenge of deciding who’s cheating whom."—Eric Hagerman, co-author ofSpark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"Andrew Tilin's story is as complex and challenging as the issue he tackles head on—the modern, and unfortunately ubiquitous, scourge of performance-enhancing drug use."—Bill Strickland, editor-at-large ofBicyclingmagazine and author ofTen Points"InThe Doper Next Door, Andrew Tilin personally explores the astonishing powers and frightening side-effects of performance-enhancing drugs. The result is an eye-opening, eyebrow-raising, immensely troubling, and yet often hilariously funny sports memoir. In the tradition of George Plimpton, this is a sterling work of participatory journalism—a carefully reported and deeply experienced book that takes us behind the hot outrage of the headlines and into the very bloodstream of the modern sports world."—Hampton Sides, editor-at-largeOutsidemagazine and bestselling author ofHellhound On His Trail"The Doper Next Dooris a brain-enhancing drug of a book: harrowing, powerful, freaky, wondrous, and wise. I couldn't put it down."—Daniel Coyle, bestselling author ofLance Armstrong's WarandThe Talent Code