Anabolic Steroids, use and side effects
- Date: December 11, 1996
- Level: High School, 11th grade
- Grade: Unspecified
- Length: 11 pages (2630 words)
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anabolic steroids, anabolic effects, oral steroids, anabolic activity, protein synthesis, testosterone level, ...performance enhancing drugs, androgenic effects, secondary sexual characteristics, orally, increases, hundred times, adverse effects, steroid, stomach
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Anabolic Steroids
Description:
Anabolic steroids are performance enhancing drugs. They are a synthetic form of the chemical testosterone that is normally found in the body. By taking anabolic steroids, a person's testosterone level can be raised up to a hundred times more than the usual amount of 2.5 to 10 mg. Per day. The increase in testosterone increases anabolic activity, which results in greater muscle bulk. It also increases protein synthesis and androgenic activity (enhanced secondary sexual characteristics) in males. The users of steroids want to increase the anabolic effects and reduce the androgenic effects, but no steroid is known to have just anabolic effects.
Use:
Anabolic ...
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Jaundice
Elevated blood pressure
Hirsutism (abnormal development of facial / body hair)
Atrophied breasts in females
Deepening of the voice in females
Legal penalties:
The use of steroids can carry a maximum of 10 years in prison. Also a fine can be imposed in addition to the jail sentence, or by itself. The fine can be as high as $250,000.
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10 November, 2002 16:07:09
I think the author should have focused a little more on the chemical process of taking steroids.
27 April, 2004 13:57:22
I think the auther should have talked more about the effects of steroids and less on the ways to tell if someone is using them. However this is still a good esay.
06 June, 2005 19:58:28
Too much info, not enough substance
