The amateur cyclist Andrew Tilin wrote a book with the title “The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Drugs”

The amateur rider and journalist Andrew Tilin  received a 2-year ban. United States Anti-Doping Agency banned this individual after he had admitted administrating steroids for legal hormone replacement therapy. The admitting was made by the cyclist in own book that will be soon probably published. The book is entitled following: “The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Drugs” .
this book presents personal experiences of several individuals who took medications that cause performance-enhancing effects.
So, Andrew Tilin administrated the steroid testosterone for hormone replacement therapy. It is quite clear.  In fact, it is not yet clear whether this writer has noticed about personal experience related also to other preparations which enhance performance.
Andrew Tilin wants to understand and describe in his book why people dope. He notes the motivations of different persons. Do these products help actually? These drugs are quite controversial; the explanations related to these medications are controversial as well. Since many users don’t like saying about their administration, a lot of answers on questions about doping remain undisclosed.
Tilin has been evidentially changed due to usage of the steroid testosterone. He has become much more powerful but more aggressive. This person had to worry about his health and about the ways to lie, being an amateur rider. Thus, Andrew Tilin became to be implicated in the doping subculture.
Writing his book, this journalist wanted to explain that steroids are unsafe and have numerous unexpected effects.  A lot of sportspeople who have taken forbidden substances criticize Andrew Tilin. One of critics is Joe Papp, a former American cyclist. This athlete was caught distributing and applying several performance-enhancing drugs. He didn’t admit using banned medicines willingly; he was caught due to an investigation. His professional and personal life was destructed because of these forbidden drugs. Joe Papp wrote about Andrew Tilin that he had been doped for a year intentionally. Papp noted that Andrew Tilin had known that the steroid testosterone was banned but he had taken it. Then he wrote that these medicines caused unwanted symptoms in users.  According to Joe Papp, Andrew Tilin had to receive a ban for 4 years.
The ban of Andrew Tilin started in March 2011.