Anabolic Steroids

Name: Anabolic Steroids

Other Names: Performance enhancing drugs.

What it Looks Like: These are prescription and veterinary drugs that can be found as capsules, tablets and clear or yellowy liquids.

How Used: Can be taken as pills, injection, implants under the skin or rubbed on the skin.

Effect: Along with prescription uses, these are used to build muscles and improve athletic performance.

Possible noticeable symptoms of use, abuse or withdrawal:

• Aggression / irritability
• Baldness
• Breast growth in men
• Deeper voice and excess body hair in women
• Heart attack
• Needle tracks / vein damage
• Possession of hypodermic needles
• Skin eruptions and acne
• Weight gain and muscle growth

This page is an overview description of this drug. It is not comprehensive or meticulously researched. This page is intended to provide an introductory overview for those who have no familiarity with the drug.

Return from Anabolic Steroids to Types of Drug Abuse

Return to My Alcoholic Addict Home Page