Steroids

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Steroids
By John Rector and Zander Mapes
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What are Steroids?
-Any of a number of natural or synthetic
substances that regulate body functions -relate
to the male sex hormones, promote muscle growth
and the development of male sexual
characteristics -abused by athletes to enhance
athletic performance and to improve physical
appearance
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Street names and other terms

• Street Names
• Abolic Veterinary steroids
• Anadrol Oral steroids
• Anatrofin Injectable steroids
• Anavar Oral steroids
• Arnolds Steroids
• Bolasterone Injectable steroids
• Delatestryl Injectable steroids
• Dihydrolone Injectable steroids
• Durabolin Injectable steroids
• Dymethzine Injectable steroids
• Enoltestovis Injectable steroids
• Equipose Veterinary steroids

• Maxibolin Oral steroids
• Methatriol Injectable steroids
• Methyltestosterone Oral steroids
• Primbolin Injectable and oral steroids
• Proviron Oral steroids
• Pumpers Steroids
• Quinolone Injectable steriods
• Sustanon 250 Injectable steroids
• Therobolin Injectable steroids
• Trophobolene Injectable steroid
• Weight trainers Steroids
• Winstrol Oral steroids

And many others
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How are they used?
Use and application -Typically ingest steroids
orally, inject them intramuscularly (located or
occurring within a muscle), or rub them on their
skin -May take doses that are 10 to 100 times
higher than those used for medical
conditions -Often take two or more different
forms of the drug and mix oral steroids with
injectable steroids, a process known as
stacking -also frequently administer their doses
in cycles of 6 to 12 weeks, a process called
pyramiding -believe that stacking and pyramiding
enhance the benefits of the drug while lessening
the toll that drug use takes on their bodies
however, there is no scientific evidence to
support these theories
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Harmful Effects to the Mind and Body
Steroids are not addictive, although they can
cause permanent damage upon any first use.
Harmful Side-effects -Physical consequences
include liver tumors and cancer, jaundice, high
blood pressure and increases in cholesterol
levels, kidney tumors, fluid retention, and
severe acne -Men may experience shrinking of the
testicles, reduced sperm count, infertility,
baldness, breast development, and increased risk
of prostate cancer -Women may experience growth
of facial hair, male-pattern baldness, changes or
cessation in menstrual cycle, and deepening of
the voice -Adolescents risk prematurely halting
their growth because of early skeletal maturation
and acceleration of puberty -Emotional problems
include dramatic mood swings, depression,
paranoid jealousy, extreme irritability,
delusions, and impaired judgments
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How can you tell if Someone is using them?

• Physical Signs
• - increased growth and amounts of facial hair
• - enlargement of muscles
• Deepening of voice
• - Severe acne breakouts on face and back

• Emotional or Mental signs
• Extremely violent behavior
• Impaired judgment
• Nausea
• Hallucinations
• Mood swings
• Paranoia

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Treatment
- the only known treatment to the negative
effects of steroids is time although some of the
effects are permanent, including tumors and
cancer in a sense, emotional problems and some
physical problems will eventually decline and
then stop entirely acne will go away, growth of
hair and mood swings are not permanent
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The End