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All You Need to Know About Teenage Steroid Use

What happens when high school kids tend plans to stop using steroids. It has also
to go the Arnold way... been reported that many adolescent users
The anabolic-androgenic steroids have are either unaware or unconvinced of
been used since the early 1950s for negative effects of steroids, physical
medicinal purposes and to enhance and psychological effects.
athletic performance. The incidence of The growing evidence of habituation among
non-medicinal use has been found to be adolescent steroid users, and the
increased considerably in recent years. powerfully reinforcing properties of the
This is followed by a strikingly drugs, presents a very disturbing trend
increased frequency of their use among in our young society. Such alarming
adolescents & high school student teenage steroid use forces us to stop and
groups in particular. think about our own kids. Why do so many
A 2001 CDC survey indicated that 5% of young people continue to use them? There
all high school students reported can be many answers:
lifetime use of steroid without a - One answer is social pressures. Many
doctor's prescription. The survey also young men, for various reasons, start
indicated that 5.8% of ninth graders, feeling that they need to look
4.9% of tenth graders, 4.3% of eleventh "masculine," that is, strong and muscular
graders, and 4.3% of twelfth graders and they fall easily for these so called
reported lifetime illegal use of "body-toners".
steroids. It has been estimated that at - There is more pressure to win and
least 700,000 high school students use perform in sports today than ever before
anabolic steroids and that at least two in history. Some student athletes feel so
third of them begin use by 16 years of pressured to succeed in their respective
age. sports that they resort to steroids for
Many users also engage in a practice help.
known as "stacking"; that is, using - Easy accessibility is also a major
several steroids at once. There have been reason for the use of steroids and other
reports of addictive behavior and performance-enhancing drugs among youth
habituation among both adult and today. Just a click over Google will
adolescent steroid users, as well as display thousands of vendors selling
reports of affective and psychotic "booster" doses and thus procuring such
symptoms, often characterized by steroids is never a major hassle!
impulsive, aggressive and violent Need for Steroid Testing:
behavior. In such a situation, the need for steroid
Adolescent steroid users appear to be at testing at various levels arise manifolds
special risk for many of the adverse for many reasons. You wouldn't want
psychological and physical consequences yourself or your kids to fall prey to
of steroid use and most of them strongly enormous side effects of such potentially
believe that steroids produce the devastating drugs.
physical effects they desire, and have no




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