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Inherently dangerous in what way? Who is the last person who you know of who met an untimely demise due to their steroid use?
by djitz 6y ago
Inherently dangerous in what way? Who is the last person who you know of who met an untimely demise due to their steroid use?
- 49531 6y agoDangerous isn't always fatal: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/anabolic-steroids https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/anabolic-st...
- adrianN 6y agoSteroid use is linked among other things with embolism, stroke, heart attack and sudden death.
- rsynnott 6y agoIf I based my risk of death on people I personally knew, I'd believe that I was immune to dying from, say, being hit by a car, and would almost certainly die of either heart disease or suicide. That's a ridiculous way to do things. I don't know that many people in the steroid-abusing demographics (it was less of a thing in my age demographic than it is with the youth of today), but I am aware that it's dangerous.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoZyzz
- perardi 6y agoA real, robust knowledge of the relative danger of steroids is tough to develop. Because you can’t plausibly do a long-term blinded trial where you take a healthy population and dope them up. The in vitro data is enough to make any institutional review board blanch. So you have to rely on self-reported usage. Which is incredibly unreliable, and full of confounds. (My bias, my fairly well-informed bias, is that nobody is just doing steroids. There is always another drug or high-risk activity.) So yeah. Steroids are dangerous. Do we know exactly how bad, especially in comparison to other drugs of abuse? Not as far as I can tell. But bad enough that you should absolutely be wary of steroids. (Also there’s gradations of dangerous. You stay away from trenbolone.)
- newsbinator 6y agoWhat are some common high risk activities that coincide with steroid usage, that you mentioned?
- lozaning 6y agoEveryone I know on gear also rides a sports bike, though N does only = 2
- vondur 6y agoI would look at the many early deaths of professional wrestlers as a good example of deaths due to steroid usage.