Journal article
Anabolic steroid use among substance abusers in treatment
The journal of clinical psychiatry, Vol.53(3), pp.97-100
1992
PMID: 1312538
Abstract
Background: Increasing illicit use of anabolic steroids in adolescent and young adult populations has been reported. To determine the scope of this problem and its relationship to psychoactive substance abuse, we evaluated the prevalence of anabolic steroid use among individuals seeking inpatient treatment for substance abuse.
Method: A randomized mail survey of 175 inpatient substance abuse treatment directors elicited information regarding the prevalence of anabolic steroid use for inpatients treated in 1989 and the first half of 1990. Additionally, directors were surveyed for experience with DSM-III-R psychoactive substance dependence criteria for anabolic steroid use.
Results: Only 19% of centers responding had treated at least one individual using anabolic steroids. Facilities encountering anabolic steroid users reported a prevalence of less than 1% among all admissions. Anabolic steroid users were seen more commonly in privately funded facilities. Directors reported a majority of anabolic steroid users had at least three DSM-III-R psychoactive substance dependence criteria for anabolic steroid use. Treatment directors rarely found anabolic steroid use acknowledged as a problem by users and rarely found anabolic steroid use a primary reason for treatment.
Conclusion: Users of illicit anabolic steroids may have significant clinical differences compared with users of other psychoactive substances of abuse and dependence.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Anabolic steroid use among substance abusers in treatment
- Creators
- G. P Clancy - Univ. Iowa coll. medicine, Iowa City, United StatesW. R Yates - Univ. Iowa coll. medicine, Iowa City, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The journal of clinical psychiatry, Vol.53(3), pp.97-100
- Publisher
- Physicians Postgraduate Press
- PMID
- 1312538
- ISSN
- 0160-6689
- eISSN
- 1555-2101
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1992
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Emergency Medicine; Medicine Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984280871402771
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