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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by stevenwoo on Monday August 28, 2017 @04:58PM (#15120002)
There was a periodic survey of Olympic athletes asking "would you take a PED that guaranteed a gold medal and shortened your lifespan to five years?", more than half said yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman%27s_dilemma

The update in that wikipedia link point to changing attitudes in more recent years.

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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by kaffeemitsahne on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @04:09AM (#15122843)
"It would kill you five years after you took it", that's quite more drastic than reducing your life span by 5 years.
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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by stevenwoo on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @02:12PM (#15126357)
A somewhat recent update (delayed release) with anonymous survey shows around 50% to be the actual number of admitted dopers. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/aug/29/sport-doping-s...
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