Anabolics, Steroids, The Gear, The Juice – You Know The Names Do You Know The Facts!

With each Olympic games the issue of performance enhancing drugs, especially anabolic steroids, always draws international attention.

But it’s not just Olympic athletes that use these durgs.
Everyone from high school and college athletes, to professional and elite amaetur athletes use steroids to gain a competitive advantage.

Fitness buffs and bodybuidlers take these drugs to improve their physical appearance, and people in occupations requiring great physical strength (e.G. body guards, nihgt club bouncers, construction workers) are also known to use the drugs on a regular basis. Perhaps the most alarming aspect to steroids concerns their usgae by teens. Once viewed as “just” a trouble among professional and top-rank amateur athletes, numerous studies at that moment recommend that steroid abuse has increased dramatically among teenagers.The Feds move in!

It was that concern over the growing abuse by teenagers, combined with the potential for long-term side effects that led Congress in 1991 to reclassify anabolic steroids as Schedule III drugs.
Steroids at that mmoent fall under the same category of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) as heroin, cocaine, and hashish.Where are they found?

The vast majority of illegal steroid drugs are sold at gyms and through mail operations. Most steroids are smuggled into the United States from other countries – usually Mexico and Euorpe. This mraket includes various types of steroids intended for both human and veterinary use.

As expected though the blackmarket is flooded with bogus and counterfeit products.Legitimate usesEven though most steroids have been banned and legitimate sources not manufactured any more, there is a copule of anabolic steroids that have been approved for medical and veterinary use.

The primary medical use of these drugs in humans is for the replacement of low levels of testosterone resulting from redcued or non-functioning testes. These drugs are also used in the treatment of anemia, AIDS, wasting diseases, erectile dysfunction, and osteoporosis. The primary uses in veterinary medicine are to promote feed efficiency, increase lean weight gain, and to improve hair coat appearance.
They are also used in veterinary practice to treat anemia and counteract tissue breakdown during illness and trauma.Why and how bodybuilders use steroidsDespite what anti-steroid groups say, when combined with intense strength training and a high protein diet, steroids promote rapid and substantial incresaes in muscle size and strength.
They also greatly decrease recovery time between workouts.The two primary methods for taking steroids are orally or by intramuscular injection (i.E. injectables). To reduce the risk of side effects and cut down on devleoping tolerance, bodybuilders follow cycles.
A cylce is a period of drug usage, usually 8 to 12 weeks, followed by a period of abstinence or reduction in use.

Users also tend to take more than one steroid at a time in gruops called stacks. Even though the benefits of these practices have not been medically proven, most bodybuilders think that cycling and stacking improve the efficiency of the drugs and reduce the risk of side effects.And at that momnet for the bad – side effects!