Just like armour protects soldiers’ bodies, steroids do too. There’s no reason to believe steroid use by the military is unethical, but further studies are needed.
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Social media and changing ideas about masculinity are making more and more young men believe their body is too small, skinny or insufficiently muscular.
Idealized standards for muscular, fat-free male bodies may be fuelling the use of SARMs, or selective androgen receptor modulators, unapproved muscle-building drugs that are easily available online.
Anti-doping authorities divide steroids into good and bad ones. Yet the more you look at them close up, the more similar they actually are.
The physical impact of anabolic steroids are well known but there are also mental effects.
The supplements industry is big business but do you know what’s really in the packet?
Performance enhancing or doping substances such as anabolic steroids and erythropoietin, a hormone that enhances the production of red blood cells and increases oxygen consumption in the body, are no longer…
Steroids are easy to scapegoat. Users are viewed as aggressive, violent and mentally unstable, able to snap at any moment and cause great harm to the people around them. Ostensibly, it is this perception…
The use of anabolic steroids has been associated primarily with men. But over the past few decades, we’ve been discovering more about different groups who use these drugs – including women and younger…
A competitive spirit is an indispensable aspect of human life, where it could be argued that a failure to compete only results in participating in a competition to fail. Over a very long period of time…
A recent national survey has found two-thirds of young men who began injecting drugs within the past three years were using steroids, overtaking methamphetamine and heroin use. Anabolic-androgenic steroids…
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Associate professor, University of Bergen
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Alcohol and other drug specialist, University of New South Wales &, University of New England
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PhD candidate, School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Exercise Physiology Across the Lifespan, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Co-director of the Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England
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Programme Leader in Psychology with Criminology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Assistant Professor, Applied Human Nutrition, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Post-Doctoral Health System Impact Fellow at the Cancer Care Program, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Therapy, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory, University of New England
