According to a U.S. Study, steroids can cause long-lasting effect on teenagers’ brains apart from flipping the brain switch for aggression for almost two years.

It was also revealed during the study that anabolic steroids can result in permanent brain changes.

From News-Medical.Net:

Neuroscientists are deeply concerned about the rising adolescent abuse of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AASs), given the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s estimate that nearly half a million 8th to 10th-grade students abuse AASs each year.

Not only do steroids set kids up for heavier use of steroids and other drugs later in life, it is known that long-term steroid use can cause mood swings, hallucinations and paranoia, liver damage and high blood pressure, as well as increased risk of heart disease, stroke and some types of cancer.

Coming off steroids can also lead to depression.

The researchers at Northeastern University, Boston, examined the behaviour of adolescent hamsters when another hamster was put into their cage.

Dr Richard Melloni, who led the research, remarked that people using or considering to initiate the use of steroids must be highly cautious of health risks from steroids in the long-run and the serious potential for aggression and violence.

It was remarked by many other researchers that teenagers must stay away from steroids as their young bodies cannot handle the effects of steroids like mature bodies and illegal use of steroids is not recommended to any one.

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