Produces feelings of euphoria, excitement, and sensations of floating. Can also result in hypertension, cardiac disease, and low birth weight babies. Induce mental calmness, hypnotics induce sleep, and anxiolytics reduce anxiety. Overdose can result in delirium, convulsions, and death. Steroids are hormones which stimulate growth and accelerate weight gain.
Anabolic steroids are man made versions of the male hormone testosterone.
This drug can lower the muscle recovery time from training and over all fatigue, can produce surges in self esteem, increased energy and sex drive, increased appetite, and a greater tolerance for pain. In women, steroid use can produce the growth of facial and body hair, deepening of the voice, menstrual irregularities, and enlargement of the clitoris. In men, testosterone is converted to estradiol, a female hormone, often leading to an enlargement of the breasts and a decreased sperm production. Possible long term effects include impotence, atrophy of the testes, violent acne and early baldness, high blood pressure and increased risk of heart disease, liver tumors and failure of liver function, stunted growth and permanent short stature in children and teenagers, mood changes, agitation, aggressiveness, anger, and an inability to control impulses. Self-Help and Psychology.