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How are anabolic steroids used?Anabolic steroids are taken as pills, injected intramuscularly or provided in gels or cream that are rubbed into the skin. Steroid abusers may take hundreds of times more than the medically recommended dose. Steroid abusers typically "stack" the drugs, meaning that they take two or more different anabolic steroids, mixing oral and/or injectable types and sometimes even including compounds that are designed for veterinary use. Abusers think that the different steroids interact to produce an effect on muscle size that is greater than the effects of each drug individually, a theory that has not been tested scientifically. Often, steroid abusers also "pyramid" their doses in cycles
of 6 to 12 weeks. At the beginning of a cycle, the person starts with
low doses of the drugs being stacked and then slowly increases the
doses. In the second half of the cycle, the doses are slowly decreased
to zero. This is sometimes followed by a second cycle in which the
person continues to train but without drugs. Anabolic steroids users
believe that pyramiding allows the body time to adjust to the high
doses and the drug-free cycle allows the body's hormonal system time
to recuperate. As with stacking, the perceived benefits of pyramiding
and cycling have not been substantiated scientifically.
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