Originally posted by MarcusMaximus
MM - The use of the word widespread was not defined in that abstract. Researchers, as scientists should choose their words carefully as it could be infered that widespread meant in the general public. out of 300 000 000 peopl in the USA and 40 000 000 in Canada, i would expect the incidence of AAS use to be between 0.01% and 10% overall. Local pockets of people within certain sports/activities of course would have a higher percentage of users.
This took place in New Haven, CT and it sounds like they were referring to their own reports rather than a national consensus. I think widespread is relative word anyway. A 20% collegiate athlete usage is relatively widespread, anything that affects 20% of a certain population by epidemiological standards is an epidemic.
The word 'may' is a clear 'waffle' word used just as i stated. Every paper has a stated hypothesis and the conclusion is almost always " more research is needed in this area" after they list the limitations of their research.
I believe they suggested that looking at the opoid and aminergic neurotransmitter response and hyperadrenergic response to steroid withdrawel would be helpful in the future as a line of research. Many papers use may and it does not detract it from being good research.
No dosages were listed or given. clarification was needed at the start. no information was given as to what constituted their 'normal usage pattern. If indeed a precipitous drop was detected, perhaps what is needed is not prohibition but education .
This was just an abstract. I will scrounge up the full methodology lagter.
It has never been definitively shown that ut is a psychological addiction or a physiological addiction with respect to steroids. just as buddy said, t is an addiction to the state of being that AAS creates. It most likely or MAY eventually be shown that it is combination of the two.
That's true, but if their hyperadrenergic response is real, (as measured by the serum stress catacholamine levels) and their response to medications used for cocaine/opoid withdrawels , then it does point to a physical basis in some, but I believe for most it is a psycological addiction.
That report rings a bell but not the authors. I shall look it up later, or i MAY not.. depends. What is true is that ppl with known personality disorders have these traits/behaviors amplified as well as the trigger threshold seems to be lowered. IN THOSE SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS. Within any group of people exhibiting behavior A, 4% will be pretty extreme of either end and there will be 0.35% of the people who exhibit the most extreme esamples. Of that last group 0.35%, 0.175% will be so extreme as to be completely unreal.
These boards are not representative. the members are no way near being a random sample. that said, it is easy to point out those ppl on these boards who respond in such a manner that only disproves their very argument
True, it is called participant bias in clinical medicine. Usually they try to make it a random selection, and do not tell the participants what they are looking for, if possible. Those who responded to the research questionaire may have had underlying psych issues that prompted them to seek out or be amenable to such research.
The whole point of the paper, (though not a perfect study,) had some features that were promising in terms of future research ie: I was most compelled by the fact that medicines used to calm or attenuate opoid/cocaine withdrawel were used in some of the participants which produced a profound amelioration of their symptoms. That makes for a good reasearch if it brings up more avenues of research for the future even though it never answers its hypothesis....such is the majority of scientific, clinical research anyway.
There are very few definative conclusions that are more common in the pure physical sciences . When it comes to biological medical conclusions, the only conclusions are that x is true if y, and z, are true under the conditions of e,f,g and only pertaining to those with attributes h,i,j etc. etc. As you have hinted at.
It's a wonder anything ever gets done!
