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Article: AIDS Drug Is Widely Diverted to Bodybuilders Looking for More Muscle.

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June 2, 2003
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By Thomas Zambito, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 2--Psssst! Wanna buy an AIDS drug?

Bodybuilders across the city are saying yes to that offer and injecting millions of dollars' worth of an AIDS drug that helps them build rippling, competition-ready muscles.

In the past year, state investigators have uncovered a number of schemes to cash in on the underground demand for Serostim, a bioengineered human growth hormone that costs $6,300 for a month's supply and was approved to counteract the loss of weight and body mass that AIDS patients can experience.

One recent scam directed by an official at ...

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