Contrary to the popular image of the typical steroid user - a teenage athlete trying to get an edge or a professional competitor who wants to win - many users are in their 20s and 30s, well-educated and don’t even play sports, a study suggests. In a survey of nearly 2,000 US men who used anabolic steroids, researchers found that the majority began using the hormones as adults, and most were not motivated by sports. In fact, most men abused steroids to look better, the researchers report in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. For the study, the researchers recruited 1,955 male steroid users from web sites dedicated to strength training and muscle-enhancing substances, mass emails and print media. The results suggest that most efforts to prevent steroid abuse, by focusing on young athletes, have misses the mark, according to the researchers. This, they add, may be related to the fact that the largest segment of steroid abusers - adult non-athletes - has been “virtually invisible. read more
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