Here is one interesting article I've seen resurface occasionally. Note that it's about a 4 hour drive from LA to the Mexican border.
A quote to highlight:
"So at first I just hit the streets. I live in Santa Monica, California, and I started going to Gold's Gym in nearby Venice, the place that launched Arnold Schwarzenegger and other bodybuilding greats. At Gold's you can easily meet gym rats who know where to find muscle-enhancing goodies, and after a few weeks of hanging out, I found myself sitting in a beat-up sports car with one of my new lifting buddies, a beefy guy in his early thirties who showed off his stash with unveiled excitement.
“Look, here's a good thing to start with,” he said.
He handed me a bottle of pills. It was Stanozolol, an anabolic steroid that lifters use to add muscle mass. This is one of the drugs that sprinter Ben Johnson was caught using at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he was subsequently stripped of his 100-meter gold medal.
“Where do you get this?” I said.
“A vet I know,” he answered casually. It took me a second to realize he meant veterinarian, not military veteran. “Vets and Mexican farmacias, that's where you get the best stuff.” I looked at the label on the bottle—these were literally animal pills. They're used to bulk up livestock, and they're banned from greyhound racing, where they're given to dogs to make them stronger."
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"When I checked in with the good doctor soon after the race, he wasn't surprised about what I'd experienced. “With your hematocrit levels higher, you don't produce as much lactic acid, which means you can ride harder, longer, with less stress. The growth hormone and testosterone help you recover faster, since you're stronger to start with and recover more quickly. All those little muscle tears repair much more quickly.”
He shrugged. “It works,” he said. “It always works.”"
I'm not saying that they are doping, but a certain LA area high school in a relatively affluent area that had a TON of success that brought fame / following (even the New York Times wrote an article about them) and likely relatively significant $ rewards in the form of NIL deals and similar things, with a coach with ties to Christian Hesch who was a known EPO user, in a 'division' (that is, all of high school) that doesn't ever drug test - I was never drug tested after finishing top 5 at state multiple times and even after winning once - could have drug usage going on