Chapter[ IX. The Threat Posed By Internet Sales of Steroids and Human Growth
Hormone ]
Section[ Darren Holmes ]
Darren Holmes
In a March 8, 2007 article, Sports Illustrated reported that former pitcher Darren
Holmes had purchased human growth hormone (somatropin) and testosterone from the Palm
Beach Rejuvenation Center in October 2003, which was shipped to Holmes’s home in North
487 See Michael S. Schmidt, 2 Players Suspended for Acquiring Steroids and HGH,
N.Y. Times, Dec. 7, 2007.
488 Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim, Documents: Hairston Received HGH;
Bogus Prescriptions at Heart of Probe; Player ‘Baffled,’ SI.com, Mar. 2, 2007.
489 See supra at 207-08.
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Carolina.490 Holmes reportedly admitted to reporters that he ordered human growth hormone
after searching the internet for solutions to his shoulder pain but claimed that he never used it.
He also reportedly said that he had not ordered the testosterone that was included in the package,
which aroused his suspicion. After discussing whether to use the human growth hormone with
his wife, Holmes reportedly said that he “threw the box away and never used it.”491
Neither I nor any member of my investigative staff had any prior knowledge of
any allegation about Holmes.
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