What was it like before the ban of steroids June 87?

[intensed]

I would love to hear some story's on how things were back in the day before the ban was placed on anabolic steroids. Did you get your anabolics from a doctor or pharmacy? What kind of prices? What was available and what dosages were used? Please take me back!! Was before my time and love to hear the old story's. Even if you weren't old enough I'm sure you have heard story's from your older brothers in iron. Please share them here.



TAKE ME BACK TO THE GOOD OL DAYS!

 

[abolish the weak]

Talked to a guy about 8 yrs ago who got into the olden days w/ me. He said a bottle of test back then was $10, and aside from test it was mostly d-bol running rampid in gyms.

 

[mark123can]

10 bucks per bottle would be nice

 

[BRODY BULLY]

The 80's

Let's see I was around back then, you could get stuff very easy any gym , race track, out the back door of say UPJOHN the stuff was around but this subculture was still pretty small you didn't have all the info at your fingertips as today. I think Dan's first Underground Handbook didn't realy get out to the main stream bodybuilder till 86 or 87. Most everthing was word of mouth from somebody bigger than you. I new a few people that went to doctors but for the most part doctors where cluless and would tell you to hit the road. There was little known about pct,or hgh.

Some of the items I remember Multibol(one of the first designer mixes)
those organon deca 1cc viles, blue Cybia(sp) dbol 5mg. and upjohn cyp.200mg. Thats what I remember I was in Highschool at the time and had been working out since i was 13. Back then rich gaspari was cool and cory everson was the shit. Neon colors workout gear was a must!!

 

[physicslifter]

Pretty much anything you could want was available at the local gym. Also, you could find docs who were willing to prescribe and have you keep up with bloodwork. I got my stuff through my doc and had regular liver function tests and the like....it was much safer for people than the way it is today.

 

[Bio]

Back then rich gaspari was cool and cory everson was the shit. Neon colors workout gear was a must!!

Hahah...LOL! Yeah, I remember those days fondly. Rich was the guy that set a new standard for conditioning. You could buy gear at any gym. I remember one of the first legitimate(real product) counterfeits(now it would be a UGL) which was Lemmon...Lemmon deca, test, etc.

I remember going into a Gold's gym in northern California to see somebody(who worked there) about some gear and he just emptied his gym bag full of gear right onto the counter. We picked through it and I got everything I needed...Man, those were the days!!!

 

[Cord]

About 83, I mail-ordered some aminos. When I received the shipment, included with the product literature was a list of anabolic steroids I could order.

 

[taslajrisi]

in college

I remember in the late 80's before the control act of 1990? There were frat guys using left and right. So easy to get anything. Not many fakes. Docs were friendly. Unfortuantely congress in their infinite wisdom always creates a problem when they try to solve one or makes it worse. Like killing a mosquito with a sledge hammer. a crime to use a hormone your body produces....

 

[The Myth]

It was like "Awesome".....

I can remember in 85' when I join a small World Gym in VA Bch area, this chick wore a fanny pack and she went around the gym collecting funds and distributing goodies. Although at the time, I had no idea what the hell was going on.

 

[maldorf]

A bottle of 100 of those really good blue colored dbol tabs was going for $30 in my area back in 86. Somehow it seems like the stuff we have today cannot even compare in power to those tabs we had back then.

 

[upeccmi]

WOW do I feel old now.....My first show (1987), I think my whole pre-contest drugs were 1 winny EOD, 1 or 2 primo/ week and some anavar, and I won the overall. I remember going into the gym and you would be offered gear, go out to the guys car and exchange right there. Sometimes I would write my own script and get anavar from the local phamacy or go to a local doc for a shot or two every week. Test cyp for like $8- $10, anavar was like $20 for 100 (and we thought that was expensive). Its amazing though, it seems people are doing lots more now than we did then. Only pros did GH, I remember Franco Santorello (fellow NJ guy) hearing he took a whole bottle of test per week,we thought he would die, now it seems your local gym rat is taking that plus some.
Then came 1990, everything dried up for a while, lots of counterfeits, I would get my gear in Europe then for pennies. Anadrol for $26, winny stans for $1 each, parabolon amps for $8, you name it. That was nice but ended by mid 90's.
The internet is a great thing and is making everyone huge now, unfortunatly its all UG, which could be dangerous, but hey thats the sport.
I wish the gov't would just stay out of telling me what I can do to myself or take to make myself better.

 

[Shelby]

People drove Camaros a lot more back then.

And Trans Ams.

 

[Thor]

hAHA

People drove Camaros a lot more back then.

And Trans Ams.

I had a friend known as Trans Am Tim, and I drove a 68 Firebird.
but I was still partying then and wasn't into lifting much yet.

 

[chris250]

I think even in the early 90's things were still pretty relaxed...

didnt have to worry abut UG still being dirty

 

[thebrick]

Upjohn… now that was a name you could trust…

I remember everyone using a couple injectables and a couple orals and nobody talked about liver values or any of that stuff. I remember seeing one of the first really big guys when I joined a gym and I distinctly remember his eyes being yellow

 

[NPCS FINEST]

I was way to young then to even think about working out let alone gear but I do have older brothers and uncles that used back then and it went something like this according to them.

The "source" would hit up a different local gym everyday around the same time. I guess he would just pull into the parking lot and open his trunk and serve ppl right out in the parking lots. It was a first come first serve kinda deal so everyone made sure that they were there at the right day and time to get taken care of...or they would have to wait a whole week (OMG A WHOLE WEEK?) before they could re up accounding to the "source".

Products were limited to Deca, Test Cyp and Dbol or winny. Which really I think is about all one really needs anyway. Upjohn cyp 200mg/ml 10 ml bottles he said were 4 for $100 or something like that. And the "source" charged $5 per injection he had to do on his "clients".

My uncle told me that the "first come first serve" till the source was all out was a bunch of bullshit...he said the "source" had enough in his trunk for everyone and then some even at the doses used today.

 

[big E]

I had the experience of befriending one of the biggest distributors back in the 80's. He actually had a FDA license to purchase american made products legally which he then sold to bodybuilders across the country. The fda never investigated his application and it wasn't until the manufacures got audited by the fda and they couldn't explain why so much gear was being sold as there wasn't much knowledge then about men needing testosterone or for burn victims which was the intended reasons for manufacturing them. All forms of test were availabel, deca made by lypomed halotestin by upjohn, anadrol by syntex and a oral brand name maxabolin which were 2mg tabs. I know some one earlier mentioned buying anavar in the late 80's but that was not the real deal cause searle stopped producing in the early 80's as did ciba with dianabol by about 84 or 85. This guy would trade american items with guys like duchaine and Larry pacifico a well know powerlifter because they were accessing european items such as primobolan,parabolan, sustanon. By the late 80's duchaine then partnered with some mexican guys to start producing the first UG-counterfiet products were of questionable quality which they copied legit american gear and a version of dbol that they labeled as being manufactured in germany which was obviously not true. They were small blue tabs that came in a real small bottle with a little sponge inside. some batches were good but then all became fake. The only gh back then was the cadaver type and the form made by genetech which had the wrong amino acid profile so it was basically useless. Sorry for the long rant but that should sum things up from back then.

 

[physicslifter]

....I can remember in 85' when I join a small World Gym in VA Bch area....

Hey, was that the gym over off of Holland Rd right before Lynnhaven Pkwy? If so, we may have been lifting at the same gym back then.

 

[1loco]

Oh... those where the days

Dbol was like pepsi around here up until about 1993 or so. They did a controlled delivery on me in 1994 so it was nice till then. I remember those fucking pronabol 5 tabs where every where. In the late 80s guys would walk into the gym with there gym bags full and sell you anything to keep from having to pay for there own shit.
In 1991 i got into a fucking brawl in the food court in the local mall and at the time i had 50 dbol in my pocket along with about 6 sustanon amps. 2amps busted during the fight and when the cops got there they asked me what was leaking in my pants, i told them sustanon and they had no fucking clue it was even illegal. In 1993 i started importing pinkies through Mexico into the US at 75 tubs per package (75k tabs per pack) and i would go sign for the shit. Now... FUCK THAT.
I never in a million years thought our country could stop anabolics from coming through Mexico but, hey they did. Thats life.

 

[repmks]

the trend i have noticed is that Nothing ever gets better. things only seem to get worse and worse until you die. look at people these days. they are more ignorant than ever. good things never last.