Anabolic Steriods are artificially produced hormones that are like androgen which is the male sex hormones in the body.
The majority of athletes take steroids in order to improve their athletic performance. Also, steroids can increase your muscle an reduce your body fat. Many athletes don't know that the negatives affects out weigh the positives though, for example: infertility, breast development, shrinking of the testicles, male-pattern baldness, severe acne and cysts, and that's only some of the male affects. The use of steroids in athletes has become so common that drug tests are given out more frequently. But there are some steroids that can't be detected through the drug tests. 
Steroids are taken through injections or through pill form. Most people take steroids in a series of weeks and months, which is the safest way besides not taking steroids at all. Steroid abusers usually take 10 to 100 times more steroids that what someone who needed steroids for medical use would take.
