related to the male sex hormone androgen. Anabolic steroids

promote the growth of skeletal muscle and the development of male

sexual characteristics, and have other effects as well. Anabolic

steroids were first developed in the late 1930's to treat

hypogonadism. The primary medical use are to treat delayed

puberty, some types of impotence, and wasting of the body caused

by HIV infection and other diseases. During the 1930's, scientists

found that anabolic steroids could improve the growth of skeletal

muscle in laboratory animals. This led to the use of steroids to

mostly bodybuilders and weightlifters and then by athletes in other

sports. The abuse of steroids is extremely dangerous to the body,

not only physically, but mentally as well. Steroid abuse has since

become so widespread in athletics that it affects the outcome of

More than one hundred different anabolic steroids have been

developed, but they require a prescription to be used legally in the

United States. Most steroids that are used illegally are smuggled in

from other countries, or illegally diverted from U.S pharmacies. In

increased energy, sexual arousal, mood swings, distractibility,

treatment of withdrawal symptoms and are treated with behavioral

The abusers are known to spend large amounts of time and money

in a one month hospitalization. The strength increases were

and genital shrinking in men, masculinization of the body in

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