Legal Anabolics
When it comes to performance enhancement, if you're going to take part in such activity and you live in the U.S. you may find you have a common problem, as legal anabolics for the sole purpose of performance enhancement do not exist. By way of the steroid Control Act of 1990, reinforced by the steroid Control Act of 2004, in the United States Anabolic androgenic steroids are classified as Schedule III controlled substances. Now, let's go ahead and get this out of the way before we go any further; while you cannot obtain legal anabolics for the sole purpose of performance enhancement, this doesn't mean you cannot obtain legal anabolics and enjoy the performance based benefits. Even so, for this to occur you must have a prescription, and to obtain a prescription for legal anabolics in the U.S. you must meet a requirement that is deemed by medical need; performance enhancement is not considered such a need, but rather a desire. Of course, as we'll soon see there is a massive hole in this reasoning of the law, actually quite a few, so let's take a look at legal anabolics and see what we can find.
Obtaining a Prescription
In order to obtain legal anabolics in the U.S. you need a prescription, and to obtain a prescription common reasons include hormone replacement therapy, treating muscle wasting diseases and severe burn victims. Without question, increasingly hormone replacement therapy or HRT has become the number one reason anyone ever obtains legal anabolics; common needs for such a prescription include low testosterone, Andropause and even menopause. While low testosterone and Andropause are far more common reasons, HRT programs to treat menopause are rapidly increasing.
Through such therapy, HRT patients see their lives dramatically improved upon; after all, they're lacking hormones they need to function properly as human beings, so the improvements come as no surprise. In many cases, the dosing you'll be given of such hormones is going to be just enough to provide you with what you need; if your doctor is someone of a strong anti-performance nature you may find he doesn't provide enough. However, in some cases, and more common than you might think, you can easily and legally obtain enough to meet your needs and provide a slight boost in overall performance; it's not going to be massive by any means, but there's nothing about this that breaks the law.
The Holes
As stated, when it comes to legal anabolics in the U.S. there are a few massive holes in the law; let's start with the one that surrounds the definition of medical need. In the U.S., if you are to possess legal anabolics you need a prescription based on medical need and as performance enhancement is not a need but a desire it is against the law to possess steroids on this basis; we're reiterating this because it's important on what's to follow. While HRT and muscle wasting diseases are the most common reasons for obtaining a prescription, there is another way you can legally obtain anabolics in the U.S.; if you are a woman who wishes to be a man you can legally obtain a prescription for anabolics. Beyond the obvious, can you see how messed up this is; the desire for a transgender lifestyle can in no way be viewed as a need, it is a desire, yet this desire is protected under the idea of personal liberty, yet not granted to those who wish to partake in performance enhancement. In the history of the U.S., very few laws have been as backward, illogical and all-in-all a giant screw you to the idea of personal liberty, and if you can't see this here then you've got even bigger problems.
What You'll Get
If you need legal anabolics, you can easily obtain many of the same anabolics used by performance enhancers; there are a few that you can't legally obtain, but for the most part, they're the same steroids. This is something many people can't wrap their heads around, they assume performance enhancers are steroiding with something akin to crack, but by-and-large the same steroids used at the HRT clinic are the same steroids used by performance enhancers. No, you're not going to receive a massive doses or anything close to standard performance protocol, but you will receive top of the line Anabolic hormones, and that in of itself is worth quite a bit. In any case, if you have a prescription for legal anabolics you'll find testosterone compounds to be the most commonly prescribed, and in the U.S. more so than anything else it will be Testosterone-Cypionate. Of course, all the standard single ester versions are available, as is ester free testosterone and mixtures like Sustanon-250; beyond testosterone compounds, Nandrolone's, Stanozolol and even Anadrol and Anavar can be obtained.