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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Antoine Allen

Is the UK in the grip of a steroid epidemic?

Rafal Skrzypczak keeps his drugs in a cupboard above his kitchen sink as if they were teabags. He retrieves the vials and needles for his twice-weekly fix: 250 milligrams of a steroid called nandrolone phenylpropionate and 250mg of testosterone. “Without this guy on YouTube, I would probably be too scared to do it on my own,” he says, before pulling down his tracksuit bottoms and injecting himself twice in the glute.

Skrzypczak is not a bodybuilder or elite athlete, but a Polish factory worker in Yorkshire who wants to look his best.

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