Alpha Pharma's oxymetholone, blistered at 50 mg a tablet with fifty tablets per carton and the company's scratch-code hologram on the box.
This is among the strongest orally active anabolic steroids in circulation and among the most demanding. The 17-alpha-alkyl group that lets it pass the digestive tract intact places measurable load on the liver, and its oestrogenic effects arise from direct receptor binding, so aromatase inhibitors have no target to work on. In medicine it is given where red cell production needs stimulating, and it has been used in wasting conditions.
