Steroid Addiction Research Paper

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When abusing steroids it can effect the user by getting myocardium, chronic heart failure, increase in sodium, and liquid retention. Specifically leading to heart arrhythmia. Both men and women can experience these effects. Some short term effects can be paranoia. A condition in which a person's condition is shown by delusions of persecution, unexplained jealousy, or they think they are more important than they really are, usually shown into an organized system. It may be an part of chronic personality disorder, of drug abuse, or of a serious condition such as schizophrenia in which the person loses touch with reality. The user could experience delusions or false beliefs of ideas, false judgement or even “ Roid Rage”. When steroids are used …show more content…
They basically make the human body go through a puberty again. This can result in the individual being very moody. Steroids do not have a “high” effect like other drugs, however they have long term effects that can wreck havoc on the body; these effects can alter the brain chemical, dopamine which this affects the moods and behavior of the human mind. Steroid use cannot be stopped cold turkey. This would result in the addiction physically breaking the individual down because the body would be so dependant on it. One of the worst effects would be psychiatric; steroids can change the thought process of a human. It can cause harsh mood swings, aggressiveness, and even insomnia. The worst steroid for this would be Trenbolone or Fluoxymesterone. When this was first thought of as an actual sickness in the 1980’s, this was known as “roid rage” ; there were a series of high prolific violent crimes that were committed by bodybuilders but it is now known, there is a clear association between testosterone and aggression. Although some doctors say that “roid rage” is not a real …show more content…
Anabolic refers to the muscle building or androgenic traits which refers to masculine traits. Steroids are a synthetic version of the testosterone that the body makes; however, when it enters the body it looks and acts just like real testosterone. The body will react as if the body has an excess about of hormone so it will start overloading on estrogen to balance it out. Users can combat these effects by cycling off and on these drugs. When cycling the user takes them for a period of time then take a break off of them the start back up. Some users use the method of stacking to get optimal effects from the drug. Stacking is where the individual will combine two or more types of steroids. Then another type of use is pyramiding, the user would start off with a low dosage then start working up to a peak to where that's all the body can take then they slowly back off to repeat the process. The drug makes your body develop and grow muscles at a very advanced rate. Doctors prescribe these steroids to patients with muscle eating or deteriorating diseases such as aids, to treat these conditions. The only way to get these drugs are by prescriptions; when the body levels of testosterone are very low, it is completely legal when prescribed. There are many reasons to get these prescriptions including medical conditions such as delayed puberty in young men, damaged tissue after surgery, or
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