Can you be addicted to steroids?

[mackenzie7386]

Steroids are not good for health

[Times Roman]

this whole "addiction" thing is a game. If you call a thing an addiction, then it becomes an illness, which means two things:
1) a shifting of responsibility from the person engaged in the so called addictive activity, and...
2) now the government gets to step in and provide grants (tax payer $$) to quacko doctors/researchers that want to find a "cure", often chemical, so that the pharma companies can market it and make bazillions. In turn, the lobbiests representing the pharma companies give back bazillions in PAC $$ to the very same politicians in campaign contributions to protect their rights so they can continue and perpetuate this cycle.

If I have a drinking problem, it's just that. A problem. Once you label it, then every one has their fukken greedy little hand out. "oh, it's a DISEASE". Here let me help you! (You can help me by getting me another beer!!)

[sean_holland]

They are addictive psychologically. They become apart of your identity. Vanity is a big part of this. People identify themselves by their personal body image and what people see them as, so when you become a regular user your expectations to stay on par or get bigger becomes a driving force in your mentality.

As far as a physical addiction, its not the same as Cocaine, Opiates, Methamphetamine, Alcohol, Tobacco, etc because your withdrawal symptoms are not nearly as severe and your 'desire' to re-use isn't as much to satiate internal 'need' as other high-dependence substances.

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[n00bs]

the only way you could claim any physical dependence, is if you were completely shut down, and werent coming back. then obviously you would require TRT to feel normal. but i still dont think that constitutes addiction. since its not a chemical dependence, on a chemical thats foreign to the body. its a hormone that your body is SUPPOSED to produce, but it isnt anymore.

anything else would be strictly a mental addiction.

Still an addiction...

The mind controls all...

Gambling is addictive, Im fairly certain feeling good is addictive as well...

Addiction is addiciton mental/physical at the end of the day its the same thing.

[HenryHill]

im addicted. yep. and proud of it. rather it be aas then the other items i used to be addicted to. the better (or bigger, faster, stonger. lol) of 2 evils.

Its calle cross addiction. You will go back to the other drugs once you stop doing roids.
I'm the same way.

[Pac Man]

You can be addicted to aas just like you can be addicted to sex, thrill seeking or video games. It's a mental addiction and a physical "high". I like feeling like alpha of the pride, peeing on my feet to mark my territory.

[Pac Man]

Steroids are not good for health

Lol, you must be lost. But your right, I'm going to quit aas for alcohol and cigarettes instead.

[Times Roman]

Lol, you must be lost. But your right, I'm going to quit aas for alcohol and cigarettes instead.

and whores too, especially those with std's!! =)

[Someguy123]

Still an addiction...

The mind controls all...

Gambling is addictive, Im fairly certain feeling good is addictive as well...

Addiction is addiciton mental/physical at the end of the day its the same thing.

personally, i think the word addiction is used WAY too freely nowadays. they call anything that people crave, an addiction. like "sex addiction" ?? what fcukin guy doesnt want sex all the time?? its not an addiction, its a natrual bodily function. i take a dump everyday, but im not "addicted" to taking sh!ts.


and really, when it comes down to it. nothing is really an addiction. all there is are addicts. which is just a word to describe someone with no will power.

[n00bs]

personally, i think the word addiction is used WAY too freely nowadays. they call anything that people crave, an addiction. like "sex addiction" ?? what fcukin guy doesnt want sex all the time?? its not an addiction, its a natrual bodily function. i take a dump everyday, but im not "addicted" to taking sh!ts.


and really, when it comes down to it. nothing is really an addiction. all there is are addicts. which is just a word to describe someone with no will power.

But will power is determined by neurotransmitters values to a degree...

But then the mind ahs the ability to overcome this...

This is a very long and indepth covnersation that alot of people dont have the capacity to really get into depth about it. I am one of those much like everyone else here, unless someone is a molecular phsyciatrist or something..

At the end of the day you dont feel desperate t take a shit, you dont sit on the toilet waiting for it to happen...

I played 15 hours of grand theft auto yesterday addicted? Perhaps... But we all have addictive personalitys look at us we are here on forums checking new posts and commenting on things because we feel we need to share and need to do this...

Addiciton is everywhere some just cant happen to see it..

However addiction is only bad when the consaquences of the addiciton become bad.

I like driivng my car at 200kmph... i feel a need to do that. Do i do it no? Why? Because i dont want to go to gaol.. If i had less will power i would simply do it ignore consaquences and do what makes me happy..

[1bigun11]

I am addicted to breathing oxygen, in this mix I inhale called air. If I dont breathe a little of it every day I get the shakes really, really bad. I have tried to quit many times, but cant. My body seems to be physically dependent on this substance! HELP!

[PK-V]

once you pop....