Steroids 4
Steroids are known as synthetic versions of the naturally occurring male sex hormone testosterone. Although some people think that there are only positive effects from the use of steroids, there are far more negative effects than there are positive ones. Steroids may make you look bigger and feel stronger, but eventually they will become very detrimental to your body. There are physical and mental side effects to the use of steroids, and the continued use of steroids will be fatal. To the science world they are known as altered testosterone molecules. Juice or roids, as called on the street, are made by adding an alkyl group or an ester to testosterone. Basically the 17-carbon atom of testosterone is altered to make the tissue building characteristic dominant and to minimize the virilizing characteristics (Wright, Cowart). The testosterone atom can be manipulated in many ways, and that is the reason there are many different types of steroids on the market. Why wouldn't the virilizing characteristic just be eliminated from the whole process? The answer to this is "The anabolic and androgenic activities are distinguished primarily for classification purposes and not because of properties inherent in the steroids themselv
The most dangerous side effect of steroids is definitely increased aggressiveness. This side effect can be detrimental to the user and to surrounding people. Many medical studies and newspaper articles have shown that calm people who take steroids will snap in a fit of rage and commit offenses and not even be aware of it. This fit of rage is also known as 'roid rage'. Users become so emotionally unstable that it takes the most minute incident to provoke a physical confrontation. Steroids also has many negative effects, both mentally and physically. Physically, there are both long term effects and short term effects. The long term effects include jaundice, cancer, and death. Short term effects include hypertension and severe acne. The mental effects are aggressiveness, depression, mood swings and psychosis. The majority of hard working people would never think of cheating their body by taking steroids. But, there are those few adolescents or athletes that insist that steroid use is the only way to increase muscle mass or athletic ability. Those two single positive effects of steroids are far outweighed by the many negative effects. Beside hair loss, jaundice, severe acne, and increased facial and body hair, there are many other fatal aspects of this drug. Also, not only are is the user physically harming their body, they are mentally morphing into a monster. Anabolic steroids are taken by ingestion of pills or or by a liquid being intravenously injected. Some users like to ingest the pills because there is no visual traces, but they are not as effective as the liquid steroids. The liquid steroids enter the bloodstream faster and there is more likely of a chance for the steroid molecules to link with the muscle fibers. However, there is the possibility of the user not being able to inject them self, or the
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