additional means

additional means
   illegal drugs taken for body-building purposes
   A method used by the Communist regime in East Germany (and cheats elsewhere) to achieve athletic success:
    What is certain that a large number of GDR sportsmen used 'additional means'. (Sunday Telegraph, 27 January 1994)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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