The Unauthorized Use of Anabolic Steroids
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The unauthorized use of anabolic steroids has become a problem of major proportions. Although focused primarily on the world of professional athletics, it has become a wide spread social problem in colleges, high schools, and private health clubs. By 1988, it was estimated that over one million American's were illegally using anabolic steroids. According to the Food and Drug Administration, "the illegal selling of steroids has become a $100 million a year black market" (Rowan and Mazie, 1988, pp. 133 4). None of these drugs, sold under the trade names of Anavar, Durabolin, and Winistrol, are legally available through over the counter means. Yet it is not difficult to find steroids; the drugs are regularly available through mail order, coaches or health club trainers distribute them, and some doctors and pharmacists freely prescribe or dispense them to paying customers (Johnson, 1985, p. 40; Clark, 1983). But this quest for quick results and increased performance may have serious psychological and behavioral effects. Psychiatrists at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and Harvard Medical School report that "steroid use can lead to major psychiatric disturbances" ("Muscling in on Madness," 1988). Anabolic steroids are varieties of testosterone, the male sex hormone. The term anabolic refers to their "tissue building" properties, but they are also "androgenic" or masculinizing (Strauss, 1987, p. 59). Steroids became available to the medical profession followin
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. He attributed his reckless behavior directly to his use of steroids. Another subject was so convinced of his imperviousness to pain and death that he drove a car into a tree while a friend videotaped him ("Muscling in...," 1988).
According to Pope and Katz, 12 percent of the subjects showed signs of psychosis resulting from steroid abuse and 22 percent suffered serious mood disturbances such as depression and mania. In their article in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Katz and Pope concluded that "major psychiatric symptoms may be a common adverse effect of these drugs" (Monmaney and Robins, 1988).
Furthermore, one of the more serious effects of steroid use is that of increased aggressive behavior. Evolutionarily, increased levels of testosterone acted positively to increase the aggressive actions of males that were better suited to their environment. Artificial induction of anabolic steroids, however, often causes problems with interpersonal relationships. Fights, unprovoked attacks, and unsociable behavior are often manifested after limited steroid use (Strauss, 1987, p. 63). Furthermore, steroid use, when coupled with the aggressive personality traits so often apparent in athletes, may compound the problem of ag
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