Drugs had a dual meaning in professional and "world-class sports. There were the drugs players took for performance, and there were the drugs they took for fun. Both were in plentiful supply and constant demand during the 1970s. For performance, the players in the muscle sports took steroids in massive doses, despite the unpleasant side effects. One observer described the steroid takers as big men with small balls. Because irritability was a side effect of heavy steroid use, domestic violence became a major problem among athletes. In 1976 testing was initiated at the Olympics to identify and disqualify athletes taking steroids, and by 1979 plans were completed to test Olympic competitors for some two hundred types of drugs at a cost of about $1 million for the winter games and $3-4 million for the summer games. For pain athletes took various numbing agents to enable...