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Thing is though, aside from eye surgery or whatever, doping isn't permanent and you still have to work like a motherfucker to get the 'benefit' out of it, and even whilst getting said benefits you will still be hurting as bad as before, so the question is, what would the point be? Arriving at work 3 whole minutes earlier or 'beating' everyone on the local hill-climb? Pretty sure for the 99.99999999% dropping £25,000 on a year's supply of EPO and HGH will do nothing of any real meaning for them.
Taking doping products for improving mental faculties is already common, whether it's caffeine tabs or people taking ADD medications to help them concentrate longer-i've not heard of any that will actually boost brain function in terms of instantly improving IQ though, otherwise we might be seeing Lance winning a Nobel prize in the next few years and Nike issuing a new edition of recreational library-specific trainers to help everyone else cure over-awareness of cancer too.
I'm sure you've all read this guy's account of seeking out doping products as an amateur athlete as an experiment, it but will post again for anyone who hasn't read it (he was already training 15-20 hrs a week as quite a serious athlete though so i'm sure he could already trash the majority of folk he crossed paths with at Regent's)
http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=2/newsId=23876.html