Teenagers should be warned about influence of steroids on brain

If you read news about steroids, you may claim that almost each article notices about “roid rage” that is claimed to be one of the gravest unwanted consequences of these drugs. Anabolic steroids are demonized for many violations, murders and other crimes. It is noted that these medications can cause uncontrolled aggression which leads to abnormal behavior. Although it is not proven scientifically whether steroids may actually lead to “roid rage”, media notices about this side result too often. Unluckily, certain other severe negative results are rarely mentioned in news.
Teenagers should be especially informed about certain specific unwanted effects that may occur in them, if they apply steroids in their teen years. The professors Leslie Henderson and Ann Clark of the Giesel School of Medicine in Dartmouth notice that these products can have very negative influence on teenagers’ brains. These scientists have conducted some studies and made conclusions, basing on the results of their studies. These professors note that steroids can cause in teenagers something severer than uncontrolled aggression.
According to Leslie Henderson and Ann Clark, steroids are very dangerous for adolescents because this group of users may have some specific severe side effects which don’t appear in adult consumers of steroids. The specialists notice that steroids may affect the brain in teenagers. So, the brain’s structure and functions can be destroyed in teenagers because of steroids. Moreover, these unwanted results may be irreversible. It means that brain’s dysfunctions that are shown through abnormal behavior may present even when the adolescents grow up. So, negative psychological effects may be displayed even in their adulthood.
But it is necessary to notice that the studies conducted by Leslie Henderson and Ann Clark have enrolled animals. Thus, these affirmations are made on the basis of animals’ reactions to steroid use. One may doubt whether effects of steroids on adolescents’ brains are the same as those on animals. Nevertheless, Leslie Henderson is sure that these statements are true for humans as well.
Furthermore, it has been defined that negative reactions of steroids on teenagers are more lasting than those which trouble adult steroid users.
Leslie Henderson collaborates in her researches with such specialists, as Marie Onakomaiya, Donna Porter and Joseph Oberlander.
Leslie Henderson claims that it is evident that steroids affect adolescents’ behavior. As we know, the brain controls behavior. Since behavior is abnormal, the brain’s structure and functions are destroyed.
Thus, it is necessary to educate teenagers about all potential dangers related to intake of steroids. If they know about these probable adverse effects, they will be able to make a right decision linked with steroids.