First off, this geek has taken five cycles and is 175lb? That is sad, I don't care how bad your genetics are or whatever. I would like to see his training and nutrition...probably an Arnold's encyclopedia workout at best, and 3 cans of tuna and some rice for food
Second, anyone who uses painkillers because they worked out so hard is a pussy, plain and simple. I am sorry if this offends anyone, but no weightlifter needs any kind of opiate or xanax or any of that crap...this only gives a bad name to
AAS users, and allows homos like Dr. Pope to spew this crap on a regular basis. There should be no association of steroid users with users of these crackhead drugs, but people like this help draw this inaccurate association. Not to mention, the kid was probably using 95lb for military presses at 175lb...oh the pain!
Also, Pope seems to be surprised that bodybuilders do not trust their physicians...why in the hell should they? I am fairly confident that I know more about
AAS than nearly all physicians in this country (besides the few who actually deal with them), and if I were on a cycle on of the LAST people I would ask for advice is the family doc...he will often know little more than anyone else as this stuff isn't covered much in med school. Most docs in reality aren't great critical thinkers, and they are just as easily influenced by the garbage that is put on TV as every other person.
The kid was punching holes in his parents walls and stuff? He needed a good ass beating and no car or dates, not a f'ing shrink! For anyone reading this, if you ever read anything by Dr. Pope, IMMEDIATELY dismiss it as false, as nothing he says is true, or at least proven in any substantial form. He is truly a sorry individual.