As a certified personal trainer & gym owner, I am very much concerned about the effects of steroids in our youth, especially high school athletes. I know what the negative effects of taking steroids for sale are, not only physically but mentally and socially as well. Steroids are the performance-enhancing substances that have caused more losses than wins in the life of High School athletes. “We have a serious steroids problem among our country’s youth.” Stated California state senator Jackie Speier, a Democrat from the Bay Area
To improve their athletic performance. Many athletes saw recourse to use performance enhancer substances because the pressure to win is enormous. To increase their muscle size or to reduce their body fat. This group is suffering from the behavioral syndrome called muscle dysmorphia, people who think they have distorted figure. It is so alarming because according to a study, 9-to-11-year-old females use steroids to enhance their build too. Part of a pattern of high-risk behaviors. Like the thrill that they get from drinking and driving, driving a motorcycle without a helmet, carrying a gun, and abusing other illicit drugs, taking steroids give that adrenaline they can’t explain.
How to Determine Steroid Abusers
Individuals who abuse steroids can experience withdrawal symptoms (like many other prohibited drugs) when they stop taking steroids, such as mood swings, restlessness, fatigue, insomnia, loss of appetite, reduced sex drive, and steroid cravings. Depression is the most dangerous of the withdrawal symptoms, because oftentimes it leads to suicide attempts.
What can be done to prevent steroid abuse?
According to the researchers who do the study on steroid educational programs, it has shown that simply teaching students about steroids’ undesirable effects does not convince them that they can be adversely affected, nor does such teaching discourage young people from taking steroids in the future. But presenting both the risks and benefits of using anabolic steroid is more effective in convincing them about steroids’ negative effects, apparently because the student-athletes find a balanced approach more credible.
The Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise and Nutrition Alternatives (ATHENA) program was modeled after the ATLAS program, but designed for adolescent athlete girls. Early study of girls enrolled in this program showed significant decreases in risky behaviors. ATHENA team members were more likely to wear seatbelts, less likely to ride in a car with a driver who had been drinking, less likely to be sexually active, and they experienced fewer injuries during the sports season.
With these initiatives for stopping the use of steroids in our young athletes, let’s make our own efforts, parents and guardians, to monitor closely our youngster and educate them in the caring informative way before it was too late…
Real Andrews is an actor by profession who is very passionate about the health and wellness industry, a Certified Personal Trainer & Gym Owner. He is very passionate about making a difference in the State of health in our Country. Visit his blog for more health-related articles.
