Andrew Tilin has written for many publications, including The New York Times, Wired, and Yoga Journal. He was a senior editor at Business 2.0 and Outside magazines, and is a contributing editor for Outside. He is the co–author, with Reed Timmer, of Into the Storm. He lives in Oakland, California.
Praise for The Doper Next Door
"Tilin [enters] the shady world of the "anti–aging" industry,
populated with past–their–prime jocks and fading beauties, "Dr.
Iffys," hucksters, and much confusing and contradictory information
on the effects, positive and dangerous, of rubbing testosterone
cream on one's private parts and injecting other drugs in search of
better performance on the road, in bed and in the mirror. Tilin is
an engaging writer, and even though he wades into an arena ripe for
mockery, he provides mostly gentle portrayals of the people he
meets during his testosterone–boosted year." —San Francisco
Chronicle
"A good book—timely, engaging, honest and well–researched . . . it
raises excellent ethical questions about hormone replacement,
supplementation, anti–aging and drug abuse." — Peter Brown
Hoffmeister, author of The End of Boys
"Timely, engaging, honest, and well–researched." —The Huffington
Post
"For the voyeur." —Bicycling magazine
"Andrew Tilin took on a risky, difficult assignment when he decided
to act as his own guinea pig—in a clandestine study of the powerful
effects that supplemental testosterone can have on a weekend
athlete and family man. The result is amazing: an incredible thrill
ride through the back alleys of sports doping, hormone replacement,
and anti–aging medicine. The Doper Next Door is participatory
journalism at its best."
—Alex Heard, editorial director at Outside magazine and author of
The Eyes of Willie McGee
"Andrew Tilin plunges fearlessly into a culture that we hardly new
existed, one in which a hopped–up citizenry's high hopes and false
heroes trump all else, and enlists in a first–hand reckoning with
the real questions we should be asking about performance enhancing
drugs. There are no easy answers—just the challenge of deciding
who's cheating whom."
—Eric Hagerman, co–author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science
of Exercise and the Brain
"Andrew Tilin's story is as complex and challenging as the issue he
tackles head on—the modern, and unfortunately ubiquitous, scourge
of performance–enhancing drug use."
—Bill Strickland, editor–at–large of Bicycling magazine and author
of Ten Points
"In The Doper Next Door, Andrew Tilin personally explores the
astonishing powers and frightening side–effects of
performance–enhancing drugs. The result is an eye–opening,
eyebrow–raising, immensely troubling, and yet often hilariously
funny sports memoir. In the tradition of George Plimpton, this is a
sterling work of participatory journalism—a carefully reported and
deeply experienced book that takes us behind the hot outrage of the
headlines and into the very bloodstream of the modern sports
world."
—Hampton Sides, editor–at–large Outside magazine and bestselling
author of Hellhound On His Trail
"The Doper Next Door is a brain–enhancing drug of a book:
harrowing, powerful, freaky, wondrous, and wise. I couldn't put it
down."
—Daniel Coyle, bestselling author of Lance Armstrong's War and The
Talent Code
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