Antisocial attitude may be prompted by anabolic steroids
According to a recent study by Swedish researchers, antisocial attitude can be easily linked to steroids that are considered as miracle drugs.
Anabolic steroids are synthetic drugs, which are related to the male sex hormones, and used or abused by people of all ages for ensuring improvements in terms of muscle mass, stamina, performance, and muscle function.
From News-Medical.Net:
Dr. Fia Klötz of Uppsala University in Sweden, and colleagues studied the associations between criminality and steroid use in 1,440 Swedish residents tested for the drugs between 1995 and 2001.
They found that those who tested positive for steroid use were about twice as likely to have been convicted of a weapons offence and one and a half times as likely to have been convicted of fraud.
It appears that the use of anabolic steroids is associated with a lifestyle involving crime, including weapons offences and fraud, but did not appear to be associated with violent crimes or crimes against property.
The authors say aggressiveness appears to occasionally trigger violent behaviour, sometimes even including homicide and steroid use is linked to extreme mood swings, impulsiveness, depression, paranoid jealousy, extreme irritability, delusions and impaired judgment.
It was noted by the involved researchers that non-prescription use of steroids or steroid abuse can lead to antisocial attitude and development of dangerous tendencies such as signs of maniac or hypomania episodes, development of suicidal tendencies, increased level of aggression, and psychotic episodes.
