Strychnine
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives.
If you were asked what the first Olympic performance enhancing drug was, you might think of an anabolic steroid, perhaps or maybe an amphetamine? It was, in fact, strychnine!
But isn't it poisonous? Simon Cotton investigates.
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