Steroids Related Content

Anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use has become a major worldwide substance use disorder that threatens the health of tens of millions of individuals. Thus, it is important to understand the factors that lead certain people to start using these drugs. Researchers at McLean Hospital reanalyzed data...

A new scientific study has found that doping is far more common in professional sport than the rates suggested by blood and urine tests of the athletes. The study found that at least 30% of athletes in the 2011 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships and 45% of...

More research is needed to address the critical health problems associated with the use of anabolic-androgenic steroids among American men, according to Harrison G. Pope, MD, MPH , writing in a new opinion paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Pope is the...