Marijuana is so widely sold in Vancouver, the host of this year's Winter Olympic Games, that the city has earned the nickname 'Vansterdam'. But Olympic officials will be on the lookout for other sorts of drugs this month—prescription medicines that have been co-opted by athletes to gain an edge. Here are a few of the substances caught at past Winter Games that you might see again in Vancouver.
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Torres, C. Doping at the winter games. Nat Med 16, 142 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0210-142b
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0210-142b
