According to the Huffington Post, an investigative documentary by Al Jazeera alleges that Ryan Howard and other prominent professional athletes received human growth hormones from a Texas-based pharmacist. The Huffington Post viewed the documentary, The Dark Side, before it airs on Sunday night.
Howard, 36, denied to Al Jazeera that he used the drug. He was alleged to have received performance enhancers by Charlie Sly, a pharmacist who once worked at an antiaging clinic in Indiana. Sly claims in the documentary to have supplied human growth hormones to Howard, Peyton Manning, Mike Tyson, Washington Nationals infielder Ryan Zimmerman, and others.