JILL MARGO
Driven by commercial interests rather than science, testosterone prescribing is escalating at startling rates around the world.
It now constitutes an annual market of almost $2 billion in which the raw drug costs only 1 per cent of the total, representing huge profits for the industry.
This total does not include the informal market where steroids are bought from compounding chemists and gyms or are illegally imported via the internet.
Although testosterone has been available for 70 years, its complexity is not understood and it has never been subjected to the rigour that current drugs have to undergo before being released to the public.
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