Steroids
- anabolic steroids, side effects, information
What Steroids
Can Do to You - Includes an overview of the history of steroid
abuse in the athletics circles, side effects, and links to other
sites offering steroid abuse information.
Steroids.com - Information
about androgenic and anabolic steroids including pictures, profiles,
and other anabolic steroid resources.
Steroids
- Overview of what medical steroids are, signs of use, dangers,
and stories of use.
US Drug
Enforcement Agency - Drugs of Concern - Information about
the effects and use of individual drugs, including cocaine, heroin,
inhalants, marijuana, MDMA (ecstasy), methamphetamine, steroids,
and others. Includes statistics on illicit drug use in the United
States.
Treating
Allergic Diseases - A look at avoidance, the use of air conditioners,
medications, antihistamines, topical nasal steroids, cromolyn
sodium and decongestants.
Introduction
to Steroids - An eighth grader's report on steroids, including
sections on how and why they're used, side effects, statistics,
and a bibliography.
Anabolic Steroids, Bodybuilding,
and the Law - Discusses not only possible side effects and
health risks but also the potential legal consequences of anabolic
steroid involvement.
AnabolicSteroids.com
- Information about obtaining steroids, dosages, stacks, cycles,
and side effects.
Nutrition Factor
- Providing information on topics concerning bodybuilding, exercise,
weightloss, sports medicine, supplements and steroids.
UK-Muscle.co.uk - UK
based site offers discussions for training, steroids, nutrition
and diet.
Body Forming - Includes
supplements, kinesiology, training systems and anabolic steroids.
Food
and Fitness - Get the lowdown on healthy eats, read over easy
recipes, and get the story on strength training, dieting, eating
disorders, and steroids.
Steroids, Sports
and Athletic Performance - What they are, what they do, efffects
on behavior, and getting help.
ESPN.com:
Steroids - Informative article on steroid use and its side
effects.
PharmaEurope.com -
Online pharmacy that sells anabolic steroids and other related
products.
Steroids - Educating potential
steroid users on the effects of anabolic steroids. Overview, abuse,
addiction, side effects, and treatments.
Medlineplus
Drug Information: Anabolic Steroids (Systemic) - Information
for patients in html format.
Buy Steroids Online
- Discussions about steroid use and cycles.
Supreme Body Building
- Information covering all areas of body building, anabolic steroids,
training, nutrition, supplements and a discussion board.
MuscleTalk - Active
forum covering steroids, training supplements and nutrition. New
articles are added regularly.
Elite Fitness - Information
on nutrition, supplements, anabolic steroids and fitness.
National Clearinghouse
for Alcohol and Drug Information: For Kids Only - Learn about
the brain's response to marijuana, opiates, inhalants, hallucinogens,
stimulants and steroids. Information on how to help someone with
a drug or alcohol problem.
Chemical Muscle
- A fitness and training site with information on steroids, bodybuilding,
and female bodybuilding.
Steroids
- Part of a Thinkquest site, detailing athletes who have gotten
caught using steroids to enhance performance, and other stories.
Steroids Deca - Information
on the anabolic steroid Deca Durabolin. Provides profile, pictures,
stacking and joint pain.
Pharmacy 1 - Anabolic
steroids and other drugs. Manufactured outside the United States.
Hardcore
Bodybuilding On The Web - Information on workouts, nutrition,
supplements and steroids. Features photograph gallery, discussion
forums, store and links.
Steroids
- Made by a biology student. Includes vocabulary, effects, why
people use steroids, and mistakes made by steroid abusers.
Steroid Encyclopaedia
- Provides information about anabolic-androgenic steroids, training
and nutrition.
Aanabolic - Online sales
of brand name steroids.
Testosterone Magazine - Hardcore
bodybuilding information, with information on training, nutrition,
supplements, and steroids, featuring the writing of strength coach
Charles Poliquin and edited by TC Luoma.
BioDetection Systems BV.
- Performs and develops bioassays for the analysis of contaminants
in environmental samples, food, drugs, metabolites and residues
for investigating use and abuse of growth promoters and steroids,
submitted to Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
If
Looks Could Kill - A webquest challenging students to investigate
steroids and creatine.
Anabolic Extreme
- Webzine that provides information on steroids, training, nutrition
and supplementation as they relate to bodybuilding.
Pharmabolic.com - Offering
a variety of steroids for sale online.
Anti-Doping
- In English, Spanish, and French, a look at banned substances,
why people do steroids, signs that someone is abusing, how they
are used, effects, and other drugs that athletes can abuse. From
the Junior Tennis League of the International Tennis Foundation.
Anabolic Insider
- A printable newsletter dedicated to steroids and bodybuilding
nutrition information along with interviews and supplement reviews.
PharmAnabolics.com
- Information about steroids profiles, stacks, side effects, and
online sales.
Steroid Truth - Information
on steroids, including cycles, profiles, history, and side effects.
Anabolic Steroid Abuse
- Scientific research about the effects of steroids, abuse and
addiction. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Resources
for students, parents, and researchers.
Anabolic Review
- Drug profiles, side effects, black market prices and other information
on anabolic steroids.
GotFina.com - A site for
discussing and learning about anabolic steroids and bodybuilding.
Nordstro's Pharmacy
- Direct online sale of pharmaceutical grade oral and injectable
steroids. Product information included.
Anabolic
Steroids in Sports - Side effects, athletes caught abusing,
and a special look at the effects of steroids on teenagers.
Steroid Information
- Information pertaining to steroids, for both recreational and
medical purposes.
Hard
Edge - Offers sources and information about bodybuilding and
anabolic steroids.
Anabolic Steroid Abuse
- Scientific research about the effects of steroids, abuse and
addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
The Steroid Truth
- Website with information and an FAQ on anabolic steroids.
Anabolic Steroids.net
- Information about stacking steroids, side effects, cycles, and
profiles.
Shirley's
Wellness Cafe - Information on: pet nutrition; homeopathy;
herbs; alternative cancer therapy for animals; adverse effects
of vaccines, shampoos, flea products, antibiotics and steroids;
and animal rights issues.
Mind Over
Matter - Series teaches students in grades five through nine
to learn the effects of drugs, steroids, and nicotine on the body.
Kathy Roberts -
Kathy speaks to youth about the dangers of steroids, other drugs
and alcohol. Biography and other information.
Anabolic steroids
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
There is much to be said about steroids from the medical perspective.
Abuse
During the 1990s, anabolic steroid abuse became a national
concern in the United States. These drugs are used illicitly by
weight lifters, bodybuilders, shot putters, long distance runners,
cyclists, professional baseball players and others to give them
a competitive advantage and improve their physical appearance.
According to the 1999 Monitoring the Future Study, the percentage
of eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders who reported using steroids
at least once in their lives has increased steadily over the past
four years (an average of 1.8 percent in 1996, 2.1 percent in
1997, 2.3 percent in 1998, and 2.8 percent in 1999). In addition,
steroid use to enhance athletic performance is no longer limited
to high school males; a 1998 Pennsylvania State University study
found that 175,000 high school girls nationwide reported taking
steroids at least once in their lifetime.
Concerns over a growing illicit market and prevalence of abuse
combined with the possibility of harmful longterm effects of steroid
use led the United States Congress in 1991 to place anabolic steroids
into Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The
CSA defines anabolic steroids as any drug or hormonal substance
chemically and pharmacologically related to testosterone (other
than estrogens, progestins, and corticosteroids) that promotes
muscle growth. Most illicit anabolic steroids are sold at gyms,
competitions, and through mail operations. For the most part,
these substances are smuggled into the United States. Anabolic
steriods commonly encountered on the illicit market include: boldenone
(Equipoise), ethlestrenol (Maxibolin), fluxoymesterone (Halotestin),
methandriol, methandrostenolone (Dianabol), methyltestosterone,
nandrolone (Durabolin, DecaDurabolin), oxandrolone (Anavar), oxymetholone
(Anadrol), stanozolol (Winstrol), testosterone, and trenbolone
(Finajet). In addition, a number of counterfeit products are sold
as anabolic steroids.
Physical side effects include elevated blood pressure and cholesterol
levels, severe acne, premature balding, reduced sexual function,
and testiclular atrophy. In males, abnormal breast development
(gynecomastia) can occur. In females, anabolic steroids have a
masculinizing effect, resulting in more body hair, a deeper voice,
smaller breasts, masculinized or enlarged clitoris, and fewer
menstrual cycles. Several of these effects are irreversible. In
adolescents, abuse of these agents may prematurely stop the lengthening
of bones, resulting in stunted growth. Serious medical illness
can result from external hormone use. Enlargement of the heart
(the heart is a muscle and thus affected by the muscle-building
qualities of the hormones) is a risk, which increases the chance
of a cardiac event occuring in later life. Another major health
risk is long-term liver damage, particularly if the anabolic steroid
compound is 17-alpha-alkylated.
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