The Effects Of Steroids

According to Brower, withdrawal symptoms might be developed in the individuals who stop taking anabolic steroids after they have taken excessive amount of anabolic steroids over sustained period. The symptoms included mood swings, insomnia, depressed mood, reduced libido, anorexia, weight loss, and even suicidal thoughts. Despite of these behavioral changes, others common adverse effects of anabolic steroids are liver failure, endocrine dysfunction, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, and difficulties in blood clotting. For men, they may experience gynecomastia (breast development and enlargement), reduced fertility, shrunken testes, decreasing in sperm amount, decreased production of testosterone, development of prostate cancer due to the enlargement of the gland, and baldness, and masculinization in women and children. In women, excessive anabolic steroids will lead to breast reduction, swollen clitoris, masculinization, deepen voice, growth of body and facial hair, menstrual disruption and also increased risk of birth defects.

Steroids have a long-term, negative effect on the human body. These effects range from cardiovascular problems to mental and psychological issues such as rage and anger problems. Steroid use has been linked to increased alcohol consumption, marijuana use, cigarette smoking, and narcotic use (Buckman, Farris & Yusko, 2013). Many athletes may not be aware of the lasting effects steroids can have because all they are worried about is their performance, not their health.

Steroids affect appearance. In both sexes, steroids can cause male pattern baldness, cysts, ache, and oily hair and skin. Steroids often make people feel edgy, moody, aggressive, and paranoid. Steroids can make a person angry and hostile for no reason. There are recorded cases of murder attributed to intense anger from steroid use. Anabolic steroid use effects fat distribution in the body. People who use steroids also appear to be at higher risk for using other drugs such as cocaine or alcohol, often to counteract some of the negative effects of steroids. Some steroid abusers report that they have committed aggressive acts, such as physical fighting or armed robbery, theft, vandalism, or burglary. Abusers who have committed aggressive acts or property crimes generally report that they engage in the behaviors more often when they take steroids then when they were drug free.

Steroid abuse has become a huge problem in professional sports today. Athletes are now using steroids to gain a competitive edge over their opponents. Also, the athletes are using the steroids to recover quickly from major injuries or surgeries. Many former superstar athletes have been caught taking steroids during the season and offseason.

Respectively, there are many effects from steroid use. First of all, increase in steroid use is the main effect when steroids are easy to obtain. Students wanted to try more in steroid when it is inexpensive and easy to obtain in the gymnasium, chat rooms, and workout center (Lipsyte 2). Therefore, the percentage of steroid use had been increased from 3% in 1995 to about 5% in 2001; as well as 43% of 12th graders said steroids were readily available, as did 30% of 10th graders, and 20% of eight graders ("Steroid Use"). They keep increasing every year even though there are some warns about that. Even though it increased a couple years ago, steroid use seemed to declined and limited more nowadays.

Steroids (anabolic) are a drug that was discovered and made by medical scientists in the last 1930’s to help with medical problems. The drug was made to help with many medical problems such as testosterone, growth, sexual functioning, and other medical problems such as helping people with HIV to help grow musical. It also helps with many other diseases. Like any other drug on the market people learn that the drug can be used for many other ways. Steroids can enhance athlete’s performance as well as bodybuilders and is used in almost every sport out there. The use of steroids has become a widespread problem. Steroid use has caused many help problems with the misuse of the drug and has caused the drug to be illegal for people to use them in

Abstract:  With the increase of competition has also come the need to become bigger and stronger than the opponent.  The use of steroids among athletes has caused the focus of the game to change.  No longer does an athlete want to win by doing their best, but they want to become bigger and have an advantage over the opponent.  Ultimately, all athletes feel that they need to use performance-enhancing drugs to compete at the same level. Despite all of the warnings and information on performance-enhancing drugs, athletes continue to use them and overlook the potential health risks associated with steroids.

Steroids can affect an athlete’s physical health. Developing breasts from steroid use is very common. Breasts develop because when high doses of steroids are used for prolonged periods, they shut down certain hormones such as testosterone. Studies show that estrogen is what causes breast tissue growth; progesterone needs to be available in order to keep breast size down. Shrunken testicles can also occur because when a person uses steroids, they introduce a new hormone from outside their body at higher levels than their body can produce. The body signals itself to slow down making its own hormones because there is already enough to make the body operate correctly. This leads to smaller testicles while on a steroid cycle. Along with testicles getting smaller, your sperm count can be dropped a long way! This is called oligospermia. “Your sperm count is considered lower than normal if you have fewer than 15 million sperm per milliliter of semen.”(Myoclonic)Low sperm count lowers the chance of him being fertile enough to get a girl pregnant. Most men will recover their sperm production 3 to 12 months after they stop taking steroids. If you have taken steroids for more than two weeks, even if you then stop, your body may have a decremented ability to respond to physical stress - because your adrenal glands may not react as they should customarily. This effect can last as long as a year after steroid discontinuation. If you have a surgical procedure, develop an incipient solemn

Effects of steroids on your body. If someone take steroids they will have a chance at getting liver, heart, and kidney diseases. “Anabolic Steroids increase the size of your muscle cells and causing them to hypertrophy or to get bigger” (Q&A: Impact of Steroids). You happen to lose hair as well as having altered mood swings such as: increased aggression.

sometimes be unable to control their emotions of mostly anger. This is called "roid rage". After use of steroids some users may have to go through behavioral therapy to keep their anger under control.

There should not be a controversy over anabolic steroid use in athletics non-medical use of anabolic steroids is illegal and banned by most, if not all major sports organizations. Still, some athletes persist in taking them, believing that these substances provide a competitive advantage. But beyond the issues of popularity or legality is the fact that anabolic steroid can cause serious physical and psychological side effects. Drug abuse occurs in all sports and at most levels of competition. Athletic life may lead to drug abuse for a number of reasons, including for performance enhancement, to self-treat otherwise untreated mental illness, and to deal with stressors, such as pressure to perform, injuries, physical pain, and retirement from sport.

The use of steroids does not only risk the ineligibility of an athlete, but it also can negatively affect their health mentally and physically. Anabolic steroid use increases strains and tears of the tendons and ligaments connected to the muscle. These steroids come with a very high price tag. Steroids affect the joints and create a breakdown in the joint area because the muscle that’s being built puts tremendous amount of stress on the joints. So, although the muscles may grow and the athlete may have unbelievable power and strength gains, in the long run, it is just going to put a tremendous amount of stress on the joints (Kuhn). Many athletes do not realize how much strain they actually put on their muscles, and they tend to take larger amounts of these substances.

Some athletes and bodybuilders take steroids know as anabolic androgen steroids. It increases their muscle mass and strength. The main anabolic steroid hormone produced by your body is testosterone. Some athletes take straight testosterone to boost their performance. Testosterone has two main effects on the body; the anabolic effect which promotes muscle building and strength and the other, androgen which case deep voice and is responsible for all male traits. This paper will show the negative effects of how steroids affect the body and include real life interviews.

If one has ever been involved in sports or athletic activities, one may have heard people use terms such as “roiding”, “doping”, and “juicing”. These terms refer to using steroids. With the benefits of steroid use, comes major health issues. As a result of steroid use, there has been an increase of physical irregularities and stunted growth. Steroids have a negative reputation due to past events involving health issues and cheating in sports. Steroids can be taken a few different ways, such as injection or ingestion. There are also countless types of steroids that come in all shapes, sizes, and forms.

Ranging from medication to performance enhancement for sports, steroids have supported both athletic use as well as medical use. Pertaining to the controversy of steroids, there are many side effects that raises huge concerns. Many premature deaths are due to the results of using steroids. In competitive sports, such as baseball, basketball, and football, there has