Steroid abuse

General or Other | Psychiatry | Steroid abuse (Disease)


Description

Steroid abuse has become an increasingly common phenomenon. The drug had great potential due to their accumulation of proteins, but their use by physicians was quite limited. Thus, anabolic steroids are used more than bodybuilders, weightlifters and other athletes, men or women.

Anabolic steroids are used because of their ability to improve an athletes performance by increasing muscle mass and decrease body fat. Use of such substances is illegal and athletes are tested before the competitions.

Medical purposes, steroids are used to treat delayed puberty, impotence, muscle loss due to HIV, some types of anemia, osteoporosis and for itching caused by a liver disease called biliary obstruction.

Causes and Risk factors

One of the main reasons for steroid abuse you give a person is like Steroids it helps improve athletic performance. Among bodybuilders, steroid abuse is the most common and frequent abuse among other athletes of sport depends.

Another reason people give for it is the misuse of steroids to increase muscle mass and reduce body fat. This group includes people suffering from injury or dismorfy imaginary ugliness syndrome. Men who suffer from this syndrome think they look small and weak, even if in reality they are massive and well developed muscles. In contrast, women see fat and ugly shapes, even if they are thin and toned. Some people abuse steroids occurs after physical or sexual abuse suffering they trying to increase muscle mass and become stronger for it in order to protect the future. Women who were sexually abused believe that using steroids that will help increase muscle mass, men will be discouraged by their physique or they will find attractive and will no longer be appealed.

In another category of those who abuse steroids and teens enter. For these, use of steroids is the same as other risky behaviors such as walking drunk driving, carrying a weapon on them, no wearing of motorcycle helmets, or other drug abuse. With all these causes that lead to steroid abuse, researchers agree that most people who abuse steroids are psychologically normal when they start to abuse them.

Diagnosis and Treatment

The diagnosis of anabolic steroid abuse in high school, college, and professional athletes may occur when they fail a drug test, but many people who abuse these drugs are never randomly tested. The diagnosis is often made when they present with one of the side effects of steroid use.

Counseling is the mainstay of therapy for anabolic steroid abuse. The patient and their support group, family and friends, need to appreciate that the approach to this addiction may be similar to addiction to other drugs and alcohol. ...