Border shopping for steroids fast and easy

NOGALES, Mexico — The walk across the border from Nogales, Ariz., to Nogales, Mexico, takes less than a minute. The Mexican side has a media nickname, "Pill City." The first thing you notice is the Viagra signs in the dozens of pharmacies that line the closest streets to the border. But we want steroids. Specifically Nandrolone, the same animal steroid that was found in former Red Sox infielder Manny Alexander's car in June 2000.

By Stan Grossfeld, Globe Staff
April 28, 2005

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