Anti-Social Behaviors Associated with Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Use among Male Adolescents.

Abstract

Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) have been linked to a range of problematic behaviors, but AAS use is still sometimes portrayed as more benign than other forms of classical drug abuse. To address this issue, we compared the prevalence of anti-social behaviors among adolescent AAS users, non-AAS illicit drug users, and drug non-users. We examined 3 waves (2004, 2008, and 2012) of self-reported cross-sectional data from a secondary school survey conducted in Stockholm, Sweden (total n = 19,773; response percentage, 79.6%). Across all survey years, the risk ratios for virtually all measured anti-social behaviors were significantly higher among AAS users compared to non-AAS illicit drug users and to drug non-users.

• Authors: Mats Hallgren, Harrison G Pope Jr, Gen Kanayama, James I Hudson, Andreas Lundin, Håkan Källmén
• Journal: European addiction research (Eur Addict Res) Vol. 21 Issue 6 Pg. 321-6 ( 2015) ISSN: 1421-9891 [Electronic] Switzerland
• PMID: 26113433 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
• Copyright: © 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel.

Chemical References

• Anabolic Agents

Topics

• Adolescent
• Anabolic Agents (adverse effects)
• Antisocial Personality Disorder (chemically induced, epidemiology)
• Bullying
• Case-Control Studies
• Crime
• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Humans
• Male
• Prevalence
• Social Adjustment
• Substance-Related Disorders (complications, psychology)
• Sweden (epidemiology)