PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Talih, Farid
AU  - Fattal, Omar
AU  - Malone, Donald
TI  - Anabolic steroid abuse: Psychiatric and physical costs
DP  - 2007 May 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 341--352
VI  - 74
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/5/341.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/5/341.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2007 May 01; 74
AB  - The psychiatric effects of anabolic-androgenic steroids (ie, testosterone and its derivatives) have been less well studied than their physical effects but are reported to include depression, mania, psychosis, and aggression. Dependence can also occur, with withdrawal involving psychiatric and physical symptoms. Adverse effects of steroid abuse should be managed by discontinuing the drugs—by tapering if necessary—and by treating the symptoms.