Title: 
Steroid Abuse Is Earning Infamy For Steroids

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389

Summary:
Steroid abuse is the problem that is deep-entrenched in the society. There are volumes of people using steroid wrongly for wrong purposes, which is steroid abuse. Steroid abuse has contributed a great deal making steroids one of the most controversial drugs of recent times.


Keywords:
steroid abuse


Article Body:
Steroid abuse is the problem that is deep-entrenched in the society. There are volumes of people using steroid wrongly for wrong purposes, which is steroid abuse. Steroid abuse has contributed a great deal making steroids one of the most controversial drugs of recent times. 

There is a wide rage of anabolic steroids available in the forms of pills, injection, creams, and gels. Steroid abuse widely goes on in several strata of society. Often steroids are taken as dietary supplements without prescriptions. These dietary supplements are freely available at health food stores, over the internet, and through mail orders. 

Steroids are often used by bodybuilders, weightlifters, athletes, and other sports persons to increase their performance levels, strength, and stamina. Oft, steroids are used by young boys, girls, and models for figure maintenance, weight control, beauty care, cosmetic reasons. On the whole, steroids are widely used without prescriptions, by school-age children, business professionals, school-college-university level athletes & sports persons, etc. 

Steroid abuse has earned lots of infamy for steroids. Steroid abuse has actually dwarfed the right and positive usage of steroids. Dr. John Baxter, the former president of the Endocrine Society & the professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, says, The concern I have is that hysteria over steroids use (steroid abuse) will cause people to lose sight of the potential good side of these hormones. It's really going to scare people away from their legitimate medical use.

Dr. Alan Mintz, the founder of the Las Vegas-based Cenegenics Medical Institute, says that steroids are wonderful medicines; they help people live healthy life in later years. There's a tremendous benefit, if these are used in the right way. They are wonderful in treating disorders associated with the low secretion of testosterone in body. They are often used for a number of medical purposes, such as bone growth stimulation, appetency, puberty, and muscle development. They are also used to treat chronic wasting disease, such as AIDS and cancer.

However, steroid abuse and over-doses of steroids have serious side effects and dangerous consequences. Some of the common consequences of steroid abuse may include wooziness, early loss of hair, sleeping troubles, nausea, depression, mood changes, joint pain, hallucinations, paranoia, urination problems, yellow fever, stroke, increased risk of heart disease, trembling, high levels of blood pressure, increased chance of injuring muscles and tendons.