Antisocial attitude and anabolic steroids share a relationship
According to researchers from Sweden, there seems to be a possible relationship between the use of anabolic steroids and antisocial attitude.
Anabolic steroids are considered to be synthetic drugs that are related to the male sex hormones such as testosterone and administered in oral as well as injectable form. These steroids are used by males and females, bodybuilders to sportsmen, and fitness freaks to normal people, without a prescription to build solid muscle mass and enhance body strength in order to look better.
From News-Medical.Net:
Dr. Fia Klötz of Uppsala University in Sweden, and colleagues studied the associations between criminality and steroid use in 1,440 Swedish residents tested for the drugs between 1995 and 2001.
They found that those who tested positive for steroid use were about twice as likely to have been convicted of a weapons offence and one and a half times as likely to have been convicted of fraud.
It appears that the use of anabolic steroids is associated with a lifestyle involving crime, including weapons offences and fraud, but did not appear to be associated with violent crimes or crimes against property.
The authors say aggressiveness appears to occasionally trigger violent behavior, sometimes even including homicide and steroid use is linked to extreme mood swings, impulsiveness, depression, paranoid jealousy, extreme irritability, delusions and impaired judgment.
It would be important to note here that steroids are primarily associated with violent outbursts of anger and impulsive behavior, but this study went on to suggest that steroids may also be the “bad guiding force” behind crimes that involve preparation and advance planning.
Tags: anabolic steroids, antisocial attitude, muscle mass, Steroid use, Steroids, synthetic drugs
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