... are easily accessible via the internet. There are basically two types of effects drugs have on your body, therapeutic effects and non-therapeutic effects. The therapeutic effects would be to increase muscle size, while the non-therapeutic effects would be all of the side effects that come with taking steroids. Anabolic steroids work by connecting to the cells of the person taking the drug. Then the steroid increases the Ribonucleic Acid Activity ... . This can also happen at the points of the injection. Steroids do not only attack the physical qualities of people but also the psychologic...

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... is infected. Containers or cookers such as spoons or bottle caps, crackpipes, cotton, or water for dissolving drugs or rinsing syringes are some of the "works." It doesn't matter what a person is shooting in the needle-heroin, cocaine, speed, steroids, insulin, or any other drug. If a person shares a needle or "works" with someone who has HIV, he or she could get infected ... too(Johnson 20). Another way is through a blood transfusion. Chances of getting HIV through a blood transfusion in the U.S. are now very low, but still possible ... developed. The treatments help most people live ...

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