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In quite a few illnesses, medical practitioners
prescribe anabolic steroids. Use of it is however suggested
with caution since the drug is known to show harmful side
effects. Ironically, anabolic steroids are used more for non-medical
reasons than otherwise, and this has been so ever since its
utility for performance enhancement has become widely known
among athletes and body-builders. Glossing over what prompts
people resorting to anabolic steroids' use - or is it misuse
- here are some main reasons:
1. Professional athletes in their attempts to over-perform
use anabolic steroids. One remembers Canadian sprinter Ben
Johnson winning the 1988 Olympic 100-meter dash in Seoul to
make a new world record, but later stripped of the title when
tests revealed that he partook banned steroid, stanozolol.
2. Men suffering from behavioral syndromes, believing they
look small and insignificant even though they are muscular,
use anabolic steroids. Similarly, women with this problem
take the drug as they tend to think they are flabby, though
in actual they are quite lean and muscular.
3. It is seen that people who have suffered physical or
sexual abuse in the past often take recourse to the drug with
the belief that it will make them look stronger and abler
thus discouraging any future attacks.
4. Adolescent youth get a kick out of doing risky things,
like driving fast, drinking atrociously and suchlike. They
are easily attracted to anabolic steroids' use.
Are anabolic steroids not used for medicinal purpose? But
yes they are. Some examples are:
1. Helping patients gain weight after a severe illness, injury,
or continuing infection. They may also be administered when
patients do not gain or maintain normal weight because of
unexplained medical reasons.
2. Treating certain types of anemia and also some kinds
of breast cancer in women.
3. Treating hereditary angioedema that causes swelling of
face, arms, legs, throat, windpipe, bowels, or sexual organs.
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