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STEROIDS (ANABOLIC) Introduction The popular

may not have been reliable. Data regarding current personality traits may or may not have been valid and/or reliable (Cooper, Noakes, Dunne, Lambert, & Rochford, 1996).

Corrigan (1996) also reviewed the psychological effects of anabolic steroids. Again it was pointed out that anabolic steroid use was initially confined to weight lifters, but they are now taken in large doses by young men trying to enhance their appearance. Studies have shown that the use of these steroids can result in psychiatric disorders, aggressive and violent behavior, and problems with drug withdrawal and dependence. Anabolic steroid use has recently been implicated in two violent murders.

A man with paranoid tendencies battered his wife to death with a hammer and shot himself. A second man murdered a woman he knew from a nightclub. The level of aggression and violence described in both murders, fit the descriptive term steroid rage. Studies show the aggressive effects of testosterone use; anabolic steroids are derived from testosterone (Corrigan, 1996).

Anabolic steroid side effects have been noted; these effects can be sudden, severe, unpredictable, and include sudden death. Psychological and/or psychiatric changes are common side effects. One of the earliest studies on these effects demonstrated that 56 percent of 32 weight-trained subjects reported a subjective perception of increased irritability and aggression; findings were the same for female athletes. Psychological changes have been divided into groups: early effects may include changes in mood and euphoria, diminished fatigue, changes in libido, irritability, anger, agitation, and edginess; larger or longer doses result in loss of inhibition and judgement, mood swings, grandiose ideas, and suspicious, quarrelsome, impulsive, aggressive, and antisocial behavior, violence and rages that can result in property damage, self-injury, assaults, suicide, and murder. Psychiatr

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