The advent of free information via the internet, the media, and the fitness industry has ignited the interest and opened the gates for easy access to steroids.
The culture, especially among young people, that worships extraordinary body-build and 6-pack abs is effortlessly receptive about the use of anabolic steroids. Such change is seen of movie stars, like Christian Bale. However, these incredible transformations are medically guided, and supported with proper fitness training and special diet plans. They also take time and hard work.
Often, however, these are taken out of context; body-builders seek the easy way to get a desirable muscular build through steroids. Users could have inadequate information regarding steroid misuse, or are too obsessed with a dream body to care for anything else. Steroids can be hazardous to your long-term health. Here are just some of the risks involved with taking steroids.
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- Studies show that steroid abuse increases the risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks and stroke, prostate cancer, and kidney and liver damage.
- Prolonged use of anabolic steroids may also affect the user psychologically. A user becomes easily provoked to exhibit aggression and outbursts. Cases of manic behaviour and delusions are also common.
- According to the NHS Choices website, male steroid abusers might encounter a host of health issues such as infertility, baldness, shrinkage of testicles, breast enlargement, severe acne, and stunted growth.
- Women abusers are not common, but the number of female users is rising. Side effects may include severe acne and balding, facial and body hirsutism, abnormal menstrual cycle, change in voice, swelling of the clitoris, reduction in breast tissue, and possible infertility.
Steroid misuse is on the rise and there seems to be no strict policy to regulate it. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom, proposes that needle exchange facilities can offer educational intervention regarding the dangers of steroid abuse and misuse.