Anabolic Steroids Description:         Anabolic steroids are performance enhancing drugs. They are a synthetic form of the chemical testosterone that is normally found in the body. By taking anabolic steroids, a person's testosterone level can be raised up to a hundred times more than the usual amount of 2.5 to 10 mg. Per day. The increase in testosterone increases anabolic activity, which results in greater muscle bulk. It also increases protein synthesis and androgenic activity (enhanced secondary sexual …showed first 75 words of 2604 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2604 total…grades 7 to 12 either use or have used steroids.         The American Heart Assoc. estimates at least half of all Division I college football         players have used steroids over a substantial period of time.         Black market steroids are topping sales of $400 million per year.         One million Americans, half of them adolescents use black market steroids. In order to obtain good muscle mass building a person may have to consume 10,000 calories / day or the steroids will be useless.